Taking Shape: Italian Altarpieces before 1500

To mark the opening of the exhibition Devotion by Design: Italian Altarpieces before 1500, the Renaissance Consortium and the Material Life of Things Project of The Courtauld Institute of Art Research Forum, in collaboration with the National Gallery, UCL and the University of York, are hosting an informal study day and symposium dedicated to the subject of late medieval and renaissance Italian altarpieces. Further details may be viewed on The Courtauld's Research Forum web pages.

Programme

09.30 – 10.00 Registration
 
10.00 – 10.25  Joanna Cannon (The Courtauld Institute of Art): All the King's Horses? An Interim Report on Attempting to Reconstruct the Maestro di Figline/Master of the Fogg Pieta Ensemble
 
10.25 – 10.50 Dillian Gordon (formerly The National Gallery, London): Family Chapels and Altarpieces in Santa Maria degli Angeli, Florence, in the Fourteenth Century
 
10.50 – 11.15 Jim Harris (The Courtauld Institute of Art): The Sum of the Parts: The Fragments of Donatello’s Santo Altarpiece
 
11.15 – 11.30 Discussion
 
11.30 – 11.50 COFFEE/TEA BREAK (tea/coffee provided in Seminar room 1)
 
11.50 – 12.15 Christa Gardner von Teuffel (University of Warwick): Mistaken Discontinuity: Filippo Lippi’s San Lorenzo Annunciation
 
12.15 – 12.40 Caroline Campbell (The Courtauld Gallery): Eighteen Saints from Filippo Lippi’s Workshop in Search of a Function
 
12.40 – 13.05 Nathaniel Silver (UCL/Frick Collection): A Closer Look at Piero della Francesca's Crucifixion Predella Scene in The Frick Collection
 
13.05 – 13.30 Scott Nethersole (The Courtauld Institute of Art): Icon or Fragment? Francesco Botticini’s Altarpiece for San Girolamo, Fiesole
 
13.30 – 14.00 Discussion
 
14.00 – 15.00 BREAK FOR LUNCH (lunch not provided)
 
15.00 – 16.30 Francesco Botticini, The Assumption Altarpiece – The National Gallery, Seminar Room 1

15.00 – 15.15 Scott Nethersole (The Courtauld Institute of Art): Introduction to Botticini’s Assumption Altarpiece
 
15.15 – 15.40 Amanda Lillie (University of York): Land and landscape in Botticini’s Assumption Altarpiece
 
15.40 – 16.05 Alison Wright (UCL): The Pictorial Structure of Heaven in Botticini’s Assumption Altarpiece
 
16.05 – 16.30 Caroline Elam (independent scholar): The Veduta of Florence in Botticini’s Assumption Altarpiece
 
16.30  TEA and DISCUSSION