CSDI - The Arts and Humanities Research Board (AHRB) Centre for the Study of the Domestic Interior, based at the Royal College of Art in London, brings together three institutions: the Royal College of Art, the Victoria and Albert Museum, and the Bedford Centre for the History of Women at Royal Holloway, University of London. Launched in September 2001, its goal is to develop new histories of the home, its contents, and its representation. It pursues research into the changing appearance and layout of rooms in a range of buildings, from tenements to palaces; the objects that furnished those rooms; the ways rooms and objects were depicted; the manner in which people used them; and how they thought about them.

A Casa: People, Spaces and Objects
in the Renaissance Interior
Two-Part Symposium

Part II
Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studies at Villa I Tatti
Florence
10-11 June 2004

Provisional Programme

Thursday 10 June 2004
Morning
Cecilia Cristellon (Istituto Universitario Europeo di Firenze)
‘Spazi, oggetti, riti: il matrimonio di area veneziana (1420-1545)’

Marta Ajmar (Victoria & Albert Museum, London)
‘Grata accoglienza: Domestic Sociability in Sixteenth-Century Italy’

Jerzy Miziolek (University of Warsaw)
'Cassoni nuziali nella Toscana e altrove: Funzione celebrativa e collocazione domestica'

Sandra Cavallo (Royal Holloway (University of London)
‘The House of the Artisan’

Discussion

Afternoon
Philip Mattox (Susquehanna University, Selinsgrove, PA)
‘Domestic Sacral Space in the Florentine Renaissance Palace’

Margaret Morse (University of Maryland, College Park)
‘Creating Sacred Space: The Religious Visual Culture
of the Casa in Renaissance Venice’

Flora Dennis (AHRB Centre for the Study of the Domestic Interior, London)
‘Music at Home: Domestic Music-Making in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Italy’

Iain Fenlon (King’s College, University of Cambridge)
‘Music within (and without) the Venetian House’

Discussion

Friday 11 June 2004
Morning
Elizabeth Cleland (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)
‘Panni and pannetti d’arazzo: Tapestries in the Italian Domestic
Interior. Fashion, Function and Display’

Piero Boccardo (Palazzo Rosso, Genova)
‘La diffusione, la destinazione domestica e la funzione celebrativa
dei paramenti di arazzi a Genova nel corso del Cinquecento’

Hugo Blake (Royal Holloway (University of London))
‘Everyday Objects Associated with the House: An Archaeological Perspective’

Jeremy Warren (The Wallace Collection, London)
‘Function and Form in the Renaissance Bronze’

Discussion

Afternoon
Katja Kwastek (Universität München)
‘Paintings as Sources for the Study of Italian Renaissance Life’

Anne Dunlop (Yale University)
‘'Datini's Decor: Frescoes in Private Homes around 1400'

Monika Schmitter (University of Massachusetts at Amherst)
‘La fronte e l’abitazione: Composite Identity in the Casa Odoni’

Jonathan Nelson (Syracuse University in Florence)
‘New Perspectives on "Old Masters": The Placement of Art
in Florentine Homes’

Discussion

ROUNDTABLE

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GENERAL INFORMATION

Part Two of the symposium will take place at the Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studiesat Villa I Tatti. Registration is not required for this part of the symposium. If you are interested in attending, or require further details, you may contact them directly at info@itatti.it.

This event is organized by the Victoria & Albert Museum, The Harvard Center for Renaissance Studies at Villa I Tatti, and the AHRB Centre for the Study of the Domestic Interior (Royal College of Art, Victoria & Albert Museum, and Royal Holloway, University of London). Generous support has been provided by The Samuel H. Kress Foundation and the Amici del Bargello.