The IAS sponsored six sessions on Giovanni Bellini at the RSA’s 2010 annual meeting, held April 8-10, 2010 in Venice.
For additional information about these or other sessions, please visit the RSA’s conference website.
Sessions Sponsored by the Italian Art Society
Session Title: Giovanni Bellini I: Toward 2016: Critical Assessment and Examination of an Early Source
Fondazione Cini – Sala degli Arazzi
Friday, 9 April 2010, 2:00–3:30pm
Organizer and Chair: Carolyn C. Wilson, Independent Scholar
Speakers/Papers:
Peter Humfrey, University of St Andrews, “Bellini in Rome: A Summing-Up”
Anchise Tempestini, Gallerie degli Uffizi, “Giovanni Bellini: il catalogo delle sue opere tra XX e XXI secolo”
Amy N. Worthen, Des Moines Art Center, “An Inconvenient Text: The Supplementum Chronicarum as a Source for Information about Gentile and Giovanni Bellini”
Session Title: Giovanni Bellini II: Bellini and the Venetian Portrait
Fondazione Cini – Sala degli Arazzi
Friday, 9 April 2010, 4:00–5:30pm
Organizer: Carolyn C. Wilson, independent scholar
Chair: Patricia Meilman, independent scholar
Respondent: Jennifer Fletcher, The Courtauld Institute of Art, Honorary Fellow
Speakers/Papers:
Elizabeth Perkins, Columbia University, “Giovanni Bellini, Antonello da Messina, and the ‘Signs of Men’s Character'”
Eveline Baseggio, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, “Humanism, Intimacy, and Faith: Jacometto Veneziano’s Opera Perfettissima and Parallels in Portraits by Giovanni Bellini and Leonardo da Vinci”
Antonio Mazzotta, The National Gallery, London, “Un ritratto dimenticato: Giovanni Bellini e gli agostiniani”
Session Title: Giovanni Bellini III: Bellini’s Christian Pictures, an Art “More Human and More Divine” I
Fondazione Cini - Sala degli Arazzi
Saturday, 10 April 2010, 9:00–10:30am
Organizer: Carolyn C. Wilson, independent scholar
Chair: Beverly Louise Brown, independent scholar
Speakers/Papers:
Rosella Lauber, Università Iuav di Venezia, "Per nuovi contributi sul San Francesco nel deserto di Giovanni Bellini, ora nella Frick Collection di New York"
Paul Hills, The Courtauld Institute of Art , "Vesting the Body of Christ in the Art of Bellini"
Brigit Blass-Simmen, Kulturstiftung St. Matthäus, "Sky Fits Heaven: Presence of the Divine, New Interpretations"
Session Title: Giovanni Bellini IV: Bellini’s Christian Pictures, an Art “More Human and More Divine” II
Fondazione Cini - Sala degli Arazzi
Saturday, 10 April 2010, 11:00am–12:30pm
Organizer: Carolyn C. Wilson, independent scholar
Chair: Diane Cole Ahl, Lafayette College
Speakers/Papers:
Catarina Schmidt Arcangeli, Kunsthistorisches Institut Florenz, Max Planck Institut, "Bellini’s Private Devotional Images: A Boom around 1500"
Bernard Aikema, Università degli Studi di Verona, "Giovanni Bellini: uno sguardo al particolare"
Tamara Durn, Case Western Reserve University, "Reconsidering Giovanni Bellini’s Washington Saint Jerome Reading"
Session Title: Giovanni Bellini V: Bellini and the Art of Drawing
Fondazione Cini - Sala degli Arazzi
Saturday, 10 April 2010, 2:00–3:30pm
Organizer: Carolyn C. Wilson, independent scholar
Chair: Paul Hills, The Courtauld Institute of Art
Speakers/Papers:
Colin Eisler, New York University, "The Iris Page in the Bellini Paris Notebook: Who Painted it and Why? Reasons for the Iris’s Presence in Works North and South of the Alps, 1430–1530"
Karolina Zgraja, Bibliotheca Hertziana, Max-Planck-Institut für Kunstegeschichte, "Giovanni Bellini’s Drawings: A Critical Reassessment in the Light of Underdrawings"
Elizabeth Carroll Consavari, Colgate University Venice Program, "In the Shadow of Bellini: Defining Bartolomeo Montagna and Artistic Identity in Early Sixteenth-Century Vicenza"
Session Title: Giovanni Bellini VI: Sebastiano and Titian: “Due eccellenti suoi creati”
Fondazione Cini – Sala degli Arazzi
Saturday, 10 April 2010, 4:00–5:30pm
Organizer and Respondent: Carolyn C. Wilson, independent scholar
Chair: Peter Humfrey, University of St Andrews
Speakers/Papers:
Costanza Barbieri, Accademia di Belli Arti di Napoli, “Sebastiano Luciani e Giovanni Bellini: le due pale d’altare nella chiesa di San Giovanni Crisostomo”
Beverly Louise Brown, independent scholar , “Poetry in Motion: Bellini, Titian and the All’antica Relief”
Patricia Meilman, independent scholar , “Titian’s Muse”