Event Description
The Bibliotheca Hertziana at Max Planck Institute for Art History (Rome) will host a hybrid conference on “Image Making as Knowledge Production: Earth, Heavens, and Body,” organized by Sietske Fransen, Giulia Simonini and Elisa Spataro. Among the presentations:
25 June 2026
Giulia Simonini (BHMPI), Drawing Beetles and Butterflies Iridescence in Early Modernity
Laura Valterio (Kunsthistorisches Institut, Florence), Breeders as Surrogate Mothers: Animal Care and Reproductive Labour in Early Modern Representations of Sericulture
Alexandre Claude (BHMPI / European University Institute), Making Authoritative Images: Francesco Stelluti, the Lincei, and the Discovery of Petrified Wood
Luca Tonetti (Università di Padova), Nidus or Uterus? Visualizing Galls and Insect Generation in Malpighi’s Work
26 June 2026
Stefan Zieme (CNRS – Observatoire de Paris), The Diagrams of the First Appendix of Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī’s (1201-74) Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī
Eric Jorink (Huygens / KNAW, Amsterdam), Christiaan Huygens and the Mystery of Saturn’s Ring: Observation, Visual Thinking, and Peer Review
Antoine Gallay (Université de Lausanne), Making the Incommensurable Tangible: Visualizing the Solar System in Christiaan Huygens’s Cosmotheoros (1698)
27 June 2026
Daniel Santiago Sáenz (Columbia University), American Bodies as Exempla in New Spain and New France: Visual Methods, Pedagogical Paradigms
Fabrizio Bigotti (University of Würzburg), Harmonious Configurations: Geometrical Reasoning in Renaissance Anatomy and Beyond
Noemi Di Tommaso (Università degli Studi di Milano), When the Eye Draws: Autograph Images and Experimental Knowledge in Francesco Redi (1627–1697)
Thursday 25 – Saturday 27 June 2026 9:00–20:30 CEST
Source: https://www.biblhertz.it/events/45616/2631954
← Back