⏰ Tonight! Join us in person or on Vimeo, all links below 👇

⚛️ Happy #WorldQuantumDay! On April 14 we celebrate quantum physics and Max Planck's immense contribution to the field.
✨ As part of the #maxplancksociety that bears his name we’re honoured to carry this spirit of discovery and innovation into today’s scientific research across all fields!

New #callforpapers:
✨ Lacuna – Conservation, Law, and the Ethics of the Incomplete
📅 Dec. 2–5
📍 Rome
⏳ May 11

We invite proposals for the upcoming conference LACUNA that addresses #lacunae as sites of interpretation, decision, and critique across disciplines.

🔗 www.biblhertz.it/cfp-lacuna

Henriette Hertz Lecture by @sgwynethr13.bsky.social
“Ut pictura comoedia: The Andreini Family and the Arts in Renaissance and Baroque Italy”
📅 21 April 2026, 6 pm
📍 Rome

Henriette Hertz Lecture by Sarah G. Ross
📅 21 April 2026, 6 pm
📍 Rome
“Ut pictura comoedia: The Andreini Family and the Arts in Renaissance and Baroque Italy” explores the Andreini family and links between visual arts and commedia dell’arte.
🎥 Streaming available
🔗 www.biblhertz.it/events/44690...

🎉👏 Congratulations to @sietskefransen.bsky.social, Head of our Max Planck Research Group "Visualizing Science in Media Revolutions", who was appointed Professor by special appointment of Early Modern European Intellectual History at Radboud University in Nijmegen 🇳🇱!
www.ru.nl/en/about-us/...

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📢Predocs wanted at the International Max Planck Research School for Multimodal Digital Humanities, a new doctoral program at the intersection of AI, art & architectural history and linguistics.
🎓 Interdisciplinary profiles welcome
⏳31/5/26
🔗 www.biblhertz.it/en/careers/o...

Next week—Thu, Mar 26, 10AM-6PM "Material Histories of Italian Colonialism"
Scholars from many disciplines exploring objects from museums and private homes. On Zoom or register in-person here: tinyurl.com/p553ttpz
@columbiauniversity.bsky.social, @bhmpi.bsky.social, @camilleriana.bsky.social

📢 REMINDER: We're hiring a #DigitalHumanities Scientist to join our interdisciplinary DH Lab in Rome!

🔎 Focus: Digital art history, AI & machine learning, cultural heritage data, collaborative research

⏳ April 30, 2026

🔗 www.biblhertz.it/en/opportuni...

Last week, fellows from the Research Groups of Francesca Borgo & @sietskefransen.bsky.social joined Gleb Shtyrmer for a hands-on workshop on Renaissance drawing techniques.
🪶✏️They made their own pens & inks following 15th/16th-century recipes and manuals and practiced by copying Renaissance works!

📚 For #InternationalWomensDay we highlight women’s voices in travel literature from our library.

Our library display features works by women (1776–1936) documenting their journeys and perspectives in a field long dominated by men.

ℹ️ Travel Literature Collection:
www.biblhertz.it/en/library/c...

✨Maarten van Heemskerck e il fascino di Roma. Percorsi visivi della Città Eterna✨

The Allure of Rome. A visual journey through drawings by Maarten van Heemskerck and other artists, original antiquities, and photographic documentation.

🔗 www.biblhertz.it/en/news/heem...

Rome through the eyes of a Dutch Master 🎨
Opening at Palazzo Poli: Maarten van Heemskerck e il fascino di Roma.

For the first time, the Roman drawings of Maarten van #Heemskerck return to the Eternal City — a true Renaissance time machine.

📅 March 3 – June 7, 2026
@bhmpi.bsky.social

📢 We are hiring a Digital Humanities Scientist to join our interdisciplinary DH Lab in Rome

🔎 Focus: Digital art history, AI & machine learning, cultural heritage data, collaborative research

⏳ Deadline: April 30, 2026

🔗 www.biblhertz.it/en/opportuni...

Auch dieses Jahr nehmen wir am Deutschen Kongress für Kunstgeschichte teil! Organisiert von @kunstgeschichte.org, Gastgeber @zikg.eu und LMU München. Unser Stand ist im Lichthof der LMU, wir freuen uns auf Euren Besuch!
📅 25.–28. Februar 2026
📍 München
🔗 kunstgeschichte-kongress.de/programm/pro...

Christoph Luitpold Frommel si è spento a Roma l’11 febbraio 2026 all’età di 92 anni. Dal 1980 al 2001 è stato Direttore dell'Hertziana e nel corso della sua vita si è dedicato allo studio dell’architettura italiana del Rinascimento. [...]
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📣 We are seeking to appoint a Scientific Assistant for the department of Tanja Michalsky starting October 2026.
📍Rome-based
⏳Deadline: 31 March 2026
🔗Full call here: www.biblhertz.it/3771494/2602...

In collaboration with the Fondazione Palazzo Butera (Palermo) we are offering a fellowship to support pre & postdoc research projects on Palermo and Sicily for a four-month period to be spent in Palermo and Rome, by the end of 2026.

⏳ February 28, 2026

🔗 www.biblhertz.it/3767329/2601...

The Lise Meitner Excellence Programme is designed to attract and specifically promote exceptionally qualified female scientists.

A position with prospects! We offer excellent researchers again the possibility to apply for a position as a Leader of a Lise Meitner Research Group in all areas of #science. Applications are possible between February 11th and April 15th, 2026. www.mpg.de/lise-meitner... #lisemeitnergroups

📢 Call for Applications: Paris–Rome Fellowship in Digital Art History 2026/2027 funded by the Institut national d’histoire de l’art (INHA) and the Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History (BHMPI)

⏳Application deadline: March 15, 2026

🔗 www.biblhertz.it/3773078/2602...

🧳 🇮🇹 We are awarding travel grants for early-career researchers funded by the Ursula Nilgen Hertziana Foundation for stays in Italy for projects on medieval art.
💶 Grant coverage of up to €3,000
📍 Research location: Italy
🔗 More: www.biblhertz.it/3771232/2602...

Pollak, ucciso ad Auschwitz, ritrovò il braccio di Laocoonte - Vatican News In anteprima per Vatican News Federica De Giambattista, vincitrice del premio di pubblicazione 2023 della Bibliotheca Hertziana di Roma, anticipa i ...

📰Vatican News, Paolo Ondarza, 27.1.2026: Pollak, ucciso ad Auschwitz, ritrovò il braccio di Laocoonte

Leggi qui: www.vaticannews.va/it/mondo/new...

📚 NEW PUBLICATION 📚

🖋️ “Napoli dalle colline: città e campagna, cultura e natura nella veduta di Jan van Stinemolen (1582)”, guest-edited by Tanja Michalsky and Adrian Bremenkamp (RIHA Journal 2025, Special Issue)

🔗 Read it here: journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ri...

📢The Department Weddigen (Art of the Modern Age in a Global Context) invites applications for Predoctoral and Postdoctoral Fellowships for the 2026/27 academic year.

📅Funding period of 3 to 12 months.
📍Fellowships are Rome-based
⏳February 28, 2026
🔗Full call: www.biblhertz.it/3766598/Pred...

Delighted to announce the second edition of our Methodology Seminar!

The academy is funded by the Connecting Art Histories initiative of the Getty Foundation
@gettymuseum.bsky.social , supported by the Bibliotheca Hertziana — Max Planck Institute for Art History @bhmpi.bsky.social , and the RCU.

📣 Our Max Planck Research Group "Machine Visual Culture: Artificial Intelligence and the History of Seeing" led by Leo Impett published 2 calls:
▪️Digital Humanities Research Scientist
▪️Predoctoral & Postdoctoral Research Fellows

📍 Rome-based
⏳ January 12, 2026

🔗 www.biblhertz.it/it/opportuni...

📢 Call for Applications – Postdoctoral Fellowship in our Lise Meitner Group “Decay, Loss, and Conservation in Art History”. Duration of up to 12 months, starting in the spring of 2026.
📍 Rome-based
⏳ January 15, 2026, 12:00 CEST
🔗 Read the full call here: www.biblhertz.it/3741351/2511...

Photo of the location at via Gregoriana 9 from the corridor towards Via Gregoriana illuminated by red light from the installation by Prem Sahib. Photo taken by Enrico Fontolan.

Yesterday we closed Chi esce entra – A Tribute Exhibition to a Disappearing Building. We thank the artists, staff & the 18,000+ visitors who shaped this unique project. The building will soon change again, but this chapter lives on in the catalog & in an upcoming online exhibition. Stay tuned 👀

📷PHAROS launches Artresearch.net, a groundbreaking new platform for exploring works of art and architecture. Funded by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Bibliotheca Hertziana (@bhmpi.bsky.social), and the National Endowment for the Humanities (@nehgov.bsky.social).

📚 Exhibition catalog: “Chi esce entra. A Tribute Exhibition to a Disappearing Building”, edited by Simon Würsten Marin. With contributions by Tristan Weddigen, Simon Würsten Marin, Margherita Fratarcangeli, He Shen 何珅 and photographs by Enrico Fontolan.
🛒 www.dariocimorellieditore.it/libro/979125...