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Princeton University
Renaissance Studies and Italian Studies
ale
Kent
D
2010 Graduate Conference
Professor of History, University of
California-Riverside
Lorenzo Lotto, Self-Portrait,
1540s.
Leonardo da Vinci, La Belle Ferronnière, 1490-1496.
Seeing and Being Seen:
Concepts of Privacy in
the Early Modern World
‘‘All Roads Lead to Rome’’:
Italian Studies Across
the Disciplines
Giovanni Bellini, Virgin and Child with
St. Catherine and Mary Magdalene, circa 1500.
Albrecht Dürer. Self-Portrait, 1484.
Public vs. private selves; initiation into secretive or restricted societies;
the public face of government vs. the closed proceedings of privy
councils and secret agreements; secret, private, and forbidden
religious or other practices; works of literature and art meant for public
or private audiences; privacy of meaning in literary or artistic works;
voyeurism; public and private displays of gender and sexuality.
From the study of Ancient Rome to the politics of modern day Italy,
the Italian peninsula holds a special allure. Scholars from a variety
of disciplines present work on different aspects of Italian history, art,
music, science, culture, and politics, from antiquity to the modern era.
April
24th-25th
2010
For more information visit:
www.princeton.edu/renaissance
10:00-5:30
McCormick 106