17 \u2013 19 OCTOBER 2018
\nVENICE, ISLAND OF SAN GIORGIO MAGGIORE<\/p>\n
This conference on Pietro Aretino has been promoted in collaboration\u00a0with La Sapienza University of Rome, the University of Roma Tre, the\u00a0University of Tuscia di Viterbo, KNIR-Royal Netherlandish Institute\u00a0of Rome, the Gallerie degli Uffizi, and the Committee for the National\u00a0Edition of the Works of Pietro Aretino. There will be four conference\u00a0sessions: \u201cPerugia and Rome: education, relations with the worlds of\u00a0Raphael and Michelangelo, the Modi\u201d; \u201cVenice: the \u2018triumvirate\u2019 with\u00a0Titian and Sansovino, Aretino as sponsor and patron\u201d; \u201cekphrastic Aretino\u201d;\u00a0and \u201cAretino and art criticism\u201d.
\nWriters and art historians will reflect on Aretino\u2019s interest in and knowledge\u00a0of artistic matters, his relations with artists, and the influence\u00a0of his words on the development of the language of Renaissance art.
\nIn the years when the commissioning of \u201cstate portraits\u201d and art collecting\u00a0became widespread practices, Aretino was a public figure, a\u00a0self-proclaimed \u201csecretary of the world\u201d, who regularly played a role as
\nmediator between sovereigns and ministers, on one hand, and artists,\u00a0on the other, especially Titian, whom rulers commissioned to make their public effigies. The\u00a0conference will explore Aretino\u2019s exchanges in the field of art not only with the recognised\u00a0masters (from Raphael and Michelangelo to Sebastiano del Piombo, Giulio Romano, Titian,\u00a0Sansovino and Tintoretto), but also with leading figures in religious and political life, cardinals,\u00a0ministers, statesmen and fashionable literati (such as Pietro Bembo), thus fostering a diplomacy
\nof dispatches, conducted with mixed fortunes from the 1520s to the 1550s. Aretino excelled in\u00a0this practice, and the conference will gauge its scope and illustrate its ramifications.<\/p>\n
Titian,\u00a0 Portrait of Pietro Aretino, Florence, Galleria Palatina<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":66404,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"cini_tax_event_categories":[1594,1465],"cini_tax_institutes":[34,22],"cini_tax_event_locations":[1464],"class_list":["post-66232","cini_events","type-cini_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cini_tax_event_categories-convegni-e-seminari-2","cini_tax_event_categories-meetings","cini_tax_institutes-institute-of-art-history","cini_tax_institutes-istituto-di-storia-dellarte","cini_tax_event_locations-island-of-san-giorgio-maggiore"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n