Annual Meeting College Art Association
Thursday, 1 January 2004
Sponsoring organization: Association for Textual Scholarship in Art History
Session title: The agonistic arts: redefining the paragone within and without Italy
Chair: Lea Mendelsohn (independent scholar)
Among the talks:
Christiane J. Hessler (Berlin University)
The paragone as conversion: Quinten Massys at the crossroads between silence and sound
Thijs Weststeijn (Universiteit van Amsterdam)
Painting as philosophy’s sister: a paragone argument from Samuel van Hoogstraeten’s Inleyding tot de Hooge Schoole der Schilderkonst (1678)
Sponsoring organization: Renaissance Society of America
Session title: Whither connoisseurship? Part 1
Chair: Jeffrey Chipps Smith (University of Texas, Austin)
Complete session:
Maryan Ainsworth (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Jan van Eyck’s van der Paele Madonna: the technical evidence for a new reading
Ron Spronk (Harvard University Art Museums)
Ever-evolving connoisseurship: unfolding the early Netherlandish diptych
Gregory Clark (University of the South)
Connoisseurship and the study of Renaissance illuminated manuscripts
Charles Talbot (Trinity University)
Theory and discernment in the art of Dürer
E. Melanie Gifford and Susanna Griswold (National Gallery of Art, Washington); Norma Uemura (independent scholar)
Matthias Grünewald’s Small Crucifixion painting: painting, practice, and personal style
Historians of Netherlandish Art Business Meeting
Session title: Cultural exchange between the Netherlands and Italy, 1400–1530
Chair: Ingrid Alexander-Skipnes (Stavanger University College)
Complete session:
Diane Wolfthal (Arizona State University)
Florentine bankers and Flemish friars: new light on the patronage of the Portinari altarpiece
Barbara G. Lane (Queens College and The Graduate Center, City University of New York)
Memling’s impact on the early Raphael
Ingrid D. Rowland (American Academy in Rome)
Agostino Chigi’s Flemish connection (1466-1520)
Elizabeth Ross (Harvard University)
Mainz at the crossroads of Utrecht and Venice: Erhard Reuwich’s illustrations for Peregrinatio in terram sanctam (1486)
Laura D. Gelfand (University of Akron)
Regional styles and political ambitions: Margaret of Austria’s monastic foundation at Brou
Art History Open Session: Baroque Art
Chairs: Margaret D. Carroll (Wellesley College) and Jeffrey Collins (University of Washington)
Among the papers:
Elizabeth Alice Honig (University of California, Berkeley)
Filiality and ambition circa 1600
Harry Berger, Jr. (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Engagement and deferral in Dutch group portraits: Riegl and the posographical imperative
Discussant: Erika Naginski (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Session title: Art and money
Chair: Paul Mattick (Adelphi University)
Among the papers:
Michael Zell (Boston University)
Art versus money: landscape drawing in the seventeenth century
Richard Spear (University of Maryland)
The cost of originality
Hans J. Van Miegroet (Duke University)
Consumption of art and dealer initiative in Early Modern France
Sponsoring organization: CAA Museum Committee
Session title: What curators need to know: evaluating curatorial studies programs
Chairs: Maria Ann Conelli (Fashion Institute of Technology) and Katherine B. Crum (Parrish Art Museum)
Speakers: Michael Conforti (Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute), Joan Marter (Rutgers University), Alicia Longwell (Parrish Art Museum) and Erica E. Hirshler (Boston Museum of Fine Arts)
Sponsoring organization: Historians of Netherlandish Art
Session title: The long legacy of the Devotio Moderna
Chair: Nanette Salomon (The College of Staten Island, City University of New York)
Complete session:
Marc De Mey (Ghent University)
The Ghent altarpiece and performative painting
Kathryn M. Rudy (Utrecht University)
Marys at the tomb: paintings, sculpture, and a Passion play built for one
Reindert Falkenburg (Leiden University)
Hieronymus Bosch: inner eye and empty talk
Lisa Rosenthal (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Melancholia and the Magdalene: feminity and/as interiority
David A. Levine (Southern Connecticut State University)
Rembrandt’s painted portrait of the Remonstrant clergyman Johannes Wtenbogaert and the Modern Devotion
Discussant: Ellen Konowitz (State University of New York, New Paltz)
Sponsoring organization: Renaissance Society of America
Session title: Whither connoisseurship? Part 2
Chair: Jeffrey Chipps Smith (University of Texas, Austin)
Among the talks:
Virginia C. Raguin (College of the Holy Cross)
Connoisseurship and the study of Renaissance stained glass
Catherine B. Scallen (Case Western Reserve University)
Whither connoisseurship of the Rembrandtesque; or, What to do with all the Not Rembrandts?
>Benjamin Binstock (New York University)
Taking the "con" out of connoisseurship (and putting the visual knowledge back in)
Sponsoring organization: American Society of Hispanic Art Scholars
Session title: Cultural crossings: Spain, Italy, the Netherlands, and the Americas
Chair: Lynette M. F. Bosch (State University of New York, Geneseo)
Mentioned although none of the talks refer in their titles to the Netherlands.
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