📷 The Sursock Museum in Beirut one month after the port explosion, September 2020, photograph by the author

📅 28 April 2026, 11.00am
📍 Florence & Online

Lecture by Nadia von Maltzahn on "Lebanon's Art World in Catastrophic Times: Visual Arts in the 1980s and Art History Now", organized by the project AC(H)E.

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It’s a Match! Sietske Fransen and Gloria Chan Sook Kim on Visualizations as Conduits of Knowledge

Join us tomorrow in Florence and online for the next session of "It's a Match!" with Sietske Fransen and Gloria Chan Sook Kim
on Visualizations as Conduits of Knowledge. Organized by Anna-Maria Meister, Mimi Cheng and the Lise Meitner Group “Coded Objects”.

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REMINDER - TOMORROW!

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📢CALL FOR APPLICATIONS 📢
🚨Deadline approaching: 20 April 2026

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📷 (1) The ganglion of a silkmoth seen through a Campani microscope. Rijksmuseum Boerhaave, Leiden, Object V28600. Photo: Wim van Egmond for Visualizing the Unknown; (2) Serratia marcescens, Bacterial Painting Series by Sarah Roberts and Simon Park. Image editing by Xiaoxiao Li, (2024)

📅 22 April 2026, 3.00pm
📍 Florence & Online

It’s a Match! Sietske Fransen and Gloria Chan Sook Kim
on Visualizations as Conduits of Knowledge

Organized by Anna-Maria Meister, Mimi Cheng and the Lise Meitner Group “Coded Objects”.

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📷 Ai Weiwei, Tree, wood and steel, 2009–10, Boros Sammlung, Berlin

📅 17 April 2026
📍 Mexico City

From Living Organism to Silent Structure: Material and Environmental Perspectives on Wood in Premodern Architecture

Session at the 79th Annual Conference of the SAH, org. by Saida Bondini, KHI Florenz, and Costanza Beltrami, Univ. of Stockholm.

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Join us on Monday in Florence and online for a lecture by Christine Göttler on "'World' in early seventeenth-century Antwerp (and Florence): Rubens and Ximenes".

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📷 Peter Paul Rubens, Venus Rising from the Sea for Emmanuel Ximenes, ca. 1615, formerly Potsdam, Bildergalerie am Schloss Sanssouci, missing since 1945.

📅 13 April 2026, 5.00pm
📍 Florence & Online

Lecture by Christine Göttler on "'World' in early seventeenth-century Antwerp (and Florence): Rubens and Ximenes", organized by Hannah Baader.

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📢 CFP: Howard Burns Seminar on Architectural Drawings

“Architectural Drawings in the Renaissance: Anonymous Artists, Copyists, Architects,” org. Guido Beltramini & Bianca de Divitiis, in collab. with the GDSU, 9–10 June 2026. 10 scholarships for scholars under 36.

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Christoph Möllers: Why Freedom of the Arts?

Join us tomorrow in Florence and online for a lecture by Christoph Möllers on "Why Freedom of the Arts?", organized by the Research Group Ethico-Aesthetics of the Visual.

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Join us on Monday in Florence and online for a lecture by Tim Ingold on "Three Moments in the Birth of Marble: Ocean, Quarry, Workshop".

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📅 26 March 2026
📍 Florence & Online

Lecture by Christoph Möllers on "Why Freedom of the Arts?", organized by the Research Group Ethico-Aesthetics of the Visual.

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Andreas Mayer The Physiognomist of the Body: Balzac’s Pedestrian Observations

Join us tomorrow in Florence and online for a lecture by Andreas Mayer on "The Physiognomist of the Body: Balzac’s Pedestrian Observations", organized by Hannah Baader.

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📷 Silenus and the Infant Dionysos © 2011 Musée du Louvre, Dist. GrandPalaisRmn / Thierry Ollivier

📅 23 March 2026
📍 Florence & Online

Lecture by Tim Ingold on "Three Moments in the Birth of Marble: Ocean, Quarry, Workshop".

This event is part of the Network Meeting of the DFG Scientific Network 'Ecologies of Marble: A Diachronic Perspective' 23-25 March 2026.

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(3) Tommaso Breccia Fratadocchi: Holy Cross Church, 915–921, Aght'amar Monastery, Lake Van, 1966/1968, scan of the slide without digital restoration (2025); (4) Tommaso Breccia Fratadocchi: Tanahat Monastery, 5th century, Tanahat, 1966/1968, scan of the slide without digital restoration

📷(1)Tommaso Breccia Fratadocchi: Church of Saint Ejmiacin near Soradir, 6th–17th century, Yanal, 1966/1968, scan of the slide without digital restoration (2025); (2)Tommaso Breccia Fratadocchi: Church of the Mother of God, 5th–6th century, Art'ik, scan of the slide without digital restoration (2025)

“Tommaso Breccia Fratadocchi. Colours of a Study Trip 1966/1968." Online exhibition of the Photothek of the KHI.
Color slides taken between 1966 and 1968 by Tommaso Breccia Fratadocchi during his travels through Armenia.

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Concept: Beatrice Spampinato, Ute Dercks

📅 19 March 2026
📍 Florence & Online

Lecture by Andreas Mayer on "The Physiognomist of the Body: Balzac’s Pedestrian Observations".

Organized by Hannah Baader.

📷 Grandville, Elégants, ca. 1830. © Musée Carnavalet, Paris

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Irina Mykhailova, The Italian Renaissance in the Early Soviet Era: Between Political Appropriation and Intellectual Connoisseurship

Join us tomorrow in Florence and online for a lecture by Irina Mykhailova on "The Italian Renaissance in the Early Soviet Era: Between Political Appropriation and Intellectual Connoisseurship".

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Join us tomorrow in Berlin for a guided tour of the exhibition "Nature and German History. Faith – Biology – Power " at DHM Berlin with Alisha Rankin and Julia Voss on the topic of ‘Medicine’, followed by a lecture by Alisha Rankin on 12 March 2026 (online).

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📅 12 March 2026
📍 Florence & Online

Lecture by Irina Mykhailova on "The Italian Renaissance in the Early Soviet Era: Between Political Appropriation and Intellectual Connoisseurship".

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📷 (1) Colorized woodcut depicting botanical medicine, including planting, gathering, distillation, and medical treatment. Adam Lonicer, Kreuterbuch (Frankfurt, 1587); (2) Cataract couching on a male and a female patient, c. 1620. DKB Copenhagen, Ms. GKS 232

📆 11 Mar, 6:30pm, DHM Berlin: Guided tour with Alisha Rankin & Julia Voss on “Medicine”.

📆 12 Mar, 6:30pm, online: Alisha Rankin on “Picturing Expertise: Eye Surgeons, Images, and Innovation in Early Modern Germany”.

Org. by the DHM (@dhmberlin.bsky.social) and the 4A_Lab.

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REMINDER - STARTING TOMORROW!

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📅 06 Marzo 2026
📍 Venezia

Venezia e la Laguna. Immaginare una infrastruttura verde

Incontro di studi organizzato dall’Università Iuav di Venezia in collaborazione con KHI e CORILA – Consortium for coordination of research activities concerning the Venice lagoon system (@corila.it)

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