Florentine Provenances. The Circulation of Cultural Assets in Florence, 20th-21st Centuries
Schedule
Mon, 10 Nov, 2025 at 02:00 pm to Tue, 11 Nov, 2025 at 05:00 pm
UTC+01:00Location
Via Gustavo Modena, 13, 50121 Firenze FI, Italia | Firenze, TO
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The workshop focuses on the city of Florence as a site of circulation and translocation of cultural assets from 1922 to the present day. Renowned hub for art lovers and dealers from all over Europe and the US since the 19th century, during these decades Florence-based cultural assets experienced an unprecedented level of exchange, displacement or outright looting that affected especially Jewish citizens but also political opponents and expats communities. Putting the objects themselves at the centre of the enquiry – not only artworks but also books, archives, ceremonial objects, Judaica, Hebraica, music instruments, furniture, etc. –, the two-day workshop revolves around the Florentine case study in order to inquire into how and to which extent material culture shaped and was shaped by specific events, actors and networks active in Florence.PROGRAMME
Monday, 10 November 2025
14.00 – 14.30 Welcome and Opening remarks
Alice Cazzola (Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut; University of Heidelberg) & Bianca Gaudenzi (SAGAS, University of Florence; Wolfson College, University of Cambridge)
14.30 – 16.00
Panel I: New Voices from the Archives: art market and connoisseurship
Chair: Joanna Smalcerz (University of Warsaw; Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz - Max-Planck-Institut)
Antonio Marras (Bardini Heritage Historical Archive)
The Antiquarian Activity of Ugo Bardini: Unpublished Archival Sources and Research Perspectives
Louise Arizzoli & Marta Binazzi (I Tatti, the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies)
Florentine Provenances in the Photo-Archive: Bernard and Mary Berenson’s International Network
16.00 – 16.30 COFFEE BREAK
16.30 - 18.00
Panel II: Between musico- and bibliophilia: tracing provenances of musical instruments and books
Chair: Alice Cazzola
Camilla Musci (École Pratique des Hautes Études Paris; Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut)
From Saba’s Library to the Serlupiana Collection: The Journey of a Literary Legacy
Luna Silvestri (Association Musique & Spoliations)
Provenance Research on The Wartime Spoliation of Musical Instruments in Italy
18.00 – 20.00 Afternoon break (Internal meeting of the Working Group Italy)
21.00 Dinner (self-funded)
Tuesday 11 November 2025
9.30 – 11.30
Panel III: Provenance as expression of cultural intent
Chair: Cristiano Giometti (SAGAS, University of Florence)
Lynn Catterson (Columbia University New York)
Ugo Bardini and his many layers of provenance information
Fiona Ricklow (Independent art and architectural historian, London)
Florentine Provenance and Private Collecting: The Schroders and the Legacy of the Renaissance
Mariaelena Floriani (Università di Genova; St Andrews University)
The Sanford Lost Collection. Florentine Provenances from 1832 to the present
11.30 – 12.00 COFFEE BREAK
12.00 – 13.30 Provenance research through photographs. Insights into the holdings of the Photothek of the Kunsthistorisches Institute in Florenz
Almut Goldhahn (Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut) (limited places, for speakers and chairs only)
13.30 – 14.45 LUNCH BREAK (self-funded)
14.45 – 16.45 Final roundtable (Casa Zuccari, via Giusti 49)
Beyond Florence: the circulation of cultural objects in Italy, 20th and 21st centuries
Chair: Bianca Gaudenzi
Donata Levi (Università degli Studi di Udine)
Christian Fuhrmeister (LMU München; Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte)
Emanuele Pellegrini (Scuola IMT Alti Studi Lucca)
Gerhard Wolf (Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut)
NB different venue: Casa Zuccari, via Giusti 49 (no zoom connection)
All participants are warmly invited to continue the conversation at the opening event of the exhibition “Armin Linke: The City as Archive. Florence” curated by Hannah Baader and Costanza Caraffa, Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, Max-Planck-Institut, Palazzo Budini Grifoni Gattai, via dei Servi 51, from 5 pm onward: https://www.khi.fi.it/de/aktuelles/ausstellungen/20251111-city-as-archive.php
This will be a hybrid event.
VENUE
Photothek of the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut
Via Gustavo Modena 13
50121 Firenze
In-person attendance will be limited so please make sure to register by emaling [email protected] by 7 November.
All the panels will be streamed online via
https://eu02web.zoom-x.de/j/66781965195 (10.11.2025)
https://eu02web.zoom-x.de/j/65917438868 (11.11.2025)
Lucas Cranach: Madonna mit Kind, ehemals Florenz, Sammlung Richter. Max Herber, Kohledruck, vor 1926. Photothek, Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut, Inv. Nr. 30415, Geschenk Georg Martin Richter.
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