Pictorial Space in Early Modern Venice

Venice, Italy
The Fifty-Sixth Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America
8-10 April 2010

Organisers: Stefan Neuner and Tristan Weddigen (Universität Zürich)

Panel I

Chair: David Y. Kim (Universität Zürich)

• MICHAEL DIERS (Hochschule für bildende Künste, Hamburg)
  The Public Square as Scene, or: How the View Organizes Pictorial Space and Adds Dynamic to the Narration
• DENISE ZARU (Université de Lausanne)
  Venetian Painting as Mental Space: Lorenzo Lotto's Spatial Constructions
• ANA GONZÁLEZ MOZO (Museo Nacional del Prado)
  Analysis of the Perspective in the Construction of Pictorial Space of the Washing of the Feet by Jacopo Tintoretto

Panel II

Chair: David Y. Kim (Universität Zürich)

• ROLAND KRISCHEL (Wallraff-RIchartz Museum Köln)
  From Hell. The Design of the Paduan Teatro Anatomico
• ANGELO CATTANEO (Universidade Nova de Lisboa)
  Mapping and Depicting the East in Fifteenth-Century Venice. Fra Mauro’s Mappamundi and the Pictorial, Literary and Cartographic Representation of Asia
• DAVID GANZ (Universität Konstanz)
  Oblique Views. The Collision Between Gaze and Action in Venetian Ceiling Painting of the Mid-Sixteenth Century