PRIN 2022-2025 European Community-Italian Ministry of University and Research
P.I. Mario Bevilacqua, Sapienza Università di Roma
Antonello Alici, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona
Saverio Sturm, Università Roma Tre
in partnership with
Centro di Studi sulla Cultura e l’Immagine di Roma
Norwegian Institute in Rome
Danish Academy in Rome
Swedish Institute of Classical Studies
Institutum Romanum Finlandiae
invite paper proposals for an international conference on artistic and architectural exchanges between Rome and the Nordic countries from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century, focusing on the production, marketing, use and conservation of images, including drawings and engravings, illustrated books, and suites of prints. These works found massive transnational circulation, and their adaptability made them indispensable tools in the history of the arts, and more generally in the broader European cultural expansion.
The conference focuses on the artistic-architectural relations between the Nordic countries (essentially Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and Finland, but with openness to the entire transalpine world), and the Italian peninsula. The pivot is ancient and modern Rome, the recognized crossroads of cultural elaboration and the centre of a massive and varied publishing production, through which the foundations were laid for the construction of a shared European artistic-architectural language based on Classicism.
We welcome proposals on all aspects of the cultural and artistic/architectural
exchange between early modern Scandinavia and the Mediterranean, in particular from PhD students. Proposals may address, but are not restricted to, the following topics:
TRAVELLING ACROSS EUROPE
- travelling South (Renaissance to early 19th century: artists/architects, patrons, sketchbooks, diaries)
- travelling North (migration of Italian artists/architects from South to North)
BOOKS AND PRINTS
- producing and marketing images of architecture: Rome and the Nordic countries in the European context
- using and collecting architectural prints
- Vitruvius and Palladio: architectural books in the North
- architectural libraries
ROME IN THE NORTH: FUNCTIONS, TECHNIQUES, STYLES
- issues of style: Classicism, Baroque, post-Baroque and Neo-classicism in the architecture of the Nordic countries
- festive, funerary, and military architecture
- urban planning and infrastructures: monuments and places
- models and monuments
NORDIC ROME
- the reception of Nordic architectural culture in early modern Rome and Italy
All proposals (max 1200 words) can be written in English, French or Italian.
The proposals should be addressed to: nordicromeconference@gmail.com
by 31st January 2025
The conference will be in Rome, in person and hybrid. Travel expenses will be met.
Participants will be expected to submit revised and expanded versions of their papers about six months after the conference for publication as an edited volume.
Scientific Committee
- Antonello Alici, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona
- Kristin B. Aavitsland, Universitetet i Oslo
- Mario Bevilacqua, Sapienza Università di Roma; Centro Studi sulla Cultura e l’Immagine di Roma
- Kristoffer Neville, University of California, Riverside
- Sabrina Norrlander Eliasson, Stockholms universitet; Istituto svedese di Studi classici a Roma
- Saverio Sturm, Università Roma Tre; Centro Studi sulla Cultura e l’Immagine di Roma
- Victor Plahte Tschudi, Arkitektur- og designhøgskolen i Oslo