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Welcome to the press page of the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz - Max-Planck-Institut!

From here you can access our press releases on the Institute's research projects, events, exhibitions and current agenda. We ask for your kind cooperation, however, by only using the downloadable images for media reporting of the events they are intended to illustrate.

Apart from the press releases, we are also making available, on request, high-resolution photographic material for your use. Please contact us about this. The Institute's press office & public relations department will in any case be glad to help you with any further information you require or questions you would like to ask.



Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz - Max-Planck-Institut
Public Relations & Communications

Dott.ssa Stefania Clio Lösch
Tel.: +39 055 24911-90
Fax: +39 055 24911-55
E-mail: khi-presse@khi.fi.it





   
Bartolomeo Ammannati
An Online Exhibition by the Photo Library of the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz - Max-Planck-Institut
beginning on 21 November 2011


Comunicato Stampa 21 novembre 2011 (pdf)

Pressemitteilung 21. November 2011 (pdf)

Press Release 21 November 2011 (pdf)

 

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Gustav Ludwig. The photographic bequest
An Online Exhibition by the Photo Library of the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz - Max-Planck-Institut
beginning on 20 June 2011


Comunicato Stampa 20 giugno 2011 (pdf)

Pressemitteilung 20. Juni 2011 (pdf)

Press Release 20 June 2011 (pdf)

 

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Leonardo da Vinci and Optics
An international Conference of the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz - Max-Planck-Institut in cooperation with the McIntire Department of Art, University of Virginia, organized by Francesca Fiorani and Alessandro Nova, Executive Director of the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz
26 - 28 May 2011


Comunicato stampa 16 maggio 2011 (pdf)

Pressemitteilung 16. Mai 2011 (pdf)

Press Release 16 May 2011 (pdf)

Program (pdf)

 

> International Conference "Leonardo da Vinci and Optics"



Drawings from the Uffizi - rivisited
An Online-Exhibition by the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz and the Gabinetto Disegni e Stampe degli Uffizi
beginning on 14 February 2011


Comunicato stampa 14 febbraio 2011 (pdf)

Pressemitteilung 14. Februar 2011 (pdf)

Press Release 14 February 2011 (pdf)

 

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> Information to the Research project "Il progetto LINEA"
> Information to the Research project "Il Progetto Euploos e il Gabinetto Disegni e Stampe degli Uffizi - Un laboratorio di ricerca sul disegno e sulla grafica"
> International Conference "LINEA I: Grafie di immagini, tra Quattrocento e Cinquecento"
> International Conference "LINEA II - Tangents, interlaces, knots, labyrinths. Structure and meaning of lines from antiquity to the contemporary period"
> International Conference "Aesthetics and Techniques of Lines between Drawing and Writing"



Altri futurismi - 'Mapping Futurism'
The conference proceedings published in the periodical "Semicerchio"


Comunicato Stampa 11 febbraio 2011 (pdf)

Pressemitteilung 11. Februar 2011 (pdf)

 

> Table of contents of the publication
> Study day "Mapping Futurism - The role of Italian Futurism within the broader context of international avant-garde movements"
> Information to the Database "Pro Firenze futurista - A digital Research Archive for Futurism in Florence"



'Insculpta imago' - seal matrices and seal impressions in the Mediterranean
An International conference organised by Ruth Wolff and Gerhard Wolf, funded by the Fritz-Thyssen-Stiftung
3 - 5 February 2011


Comunicato stampa 20 gennaio 2011 (pdf)

Pressemitteilung 20. Januar 2011 (pdf)

Press Release 20 January 2011 (pdf)

Program (pdf)

 

> International conference "'Insculpta imago' - seal matrices and seal impressions in the Mediterranean"
> Information to the Research project "Images on Seals"
> go to Online Exhibition "Sigilli"



Sculptures from the Boboli Gardens
An Online Exhibition by the Photo Library of the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz - Max-Planck-Institut
beginning on 18 October 2010


Comunicato Stampa 18 ottobre 2010 (pdf)

Pressemitteilung 18. Oktober 2010 (pdf)

Press Release 18 October 2010 (pdf)

 

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Palazzo Grifoni Budini Gattai
An Online Exhibition by the Photo Library of the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz - Max-Planck-Institut
beginning on 14 June 2010


Comunicato Stampa 8 luglio 2010 (pdf)

Pressemitteilung 8. Juli 2010 (pdf)

Press Release 8 July 2010 (pdf)

 

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Award of the Jacob Burckhardt Prize
Third edition
The Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz - Max-Planck-Institut and the Verein zur Förderung des Kunsthistorischen Instituts in Florenz (Max-Planck-Institut) are to present the third Jacob Burckhardt Prize on 18 May. Dr. Rebecca Müller, research assistant at the Art-historical Institute of the Goethe-Universität in Frankfurt am Main, is being awarded the Prize for her research in the field of Italian Art. The Prize, which comes with a cash award of 10,000 Euro, was endowed by Irene and Rolf Becker, Munich, and will be conferred at a public prizegiving ceremony in Florence on 18 May 2010.


Comunicato Stampa premio Burckhardt 2009 (pdf)

Pressemitteilung premio Burckhardt 2009 (pdf)

Press Release premio Burckhardt 2009 (pdf)

 



> Award of the Jacob Burckhardt Prize
> Further information to the Jacob Burckhardt Prize



Natural artifizio - artifiziosa natura: Grottos of the Early Modern Age in Italy
An Online Exhibition by the photo library of the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz - Max-Planck-Institut
beginning on 22 February 2010


Comunicato Stampa 5 marzo 2010 (pdf)

Pressemitteilung 5. März 2010 (pdf)

Press Release 5 March 2010 (pdf)

 

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Opening of the Photo Library in the Palazzo Grifoni
Via dei Servi 51, 50122 Florence
2 March 2010


Comunicato Stampa 19 febbraio 2010 (pdf)

Pressemitteilung 19. Februar 2010 (pdf)

Press Release 19 February 2010 (pdf)

Program (pdf)

 

> Inauguration of the Photo library in the Palazzo Grifoni
> Further information to the Photo library in the Palazzo Grifoni



Mapping Futurism
Study day organised by Lisa Hanstein and Jan Simane
15 - 16 February 2010


Comunicato Stampa 11 febbraio 2010 (pdf)

Pressemitteilung 8. Februar 2010 (pdf)

Press Release 11 February 2010 (pdf)

Program (pdf)

 

> Study day "Mapping Futurism - The role of Italian Futurism within the broader context of international avant-garde movements"
> Evening lecture of Linda Dalrymple Henderson ("Boccioni, Futurism and the Energies of Modernism")
> Information to the Database "Pro Firenze futurista - A digital Research Archive for Futurism in Florence"



Florence Declaration
Recommendations for the Preservation of Analogue Photo Archives
A Project of the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut
31 October 2009


Pressemitteilung 13. November 2009 (pdf)

Comunicato Stampa 13 novembre 2009 (pdf)

Press Release 13 November 2009 (pdf)

  > go to Florence Declaration



Sigilli
An Online Exhibition by the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz - Max-Planck-Institut
beginning on 19 October 2009


Comunicato Stampa 19 ottobre 2009 (pdf)

Pressemitteilung 19. Oktober 2009 (pdf)

Press Release 19 October 2009 (pdf)

 

> go to Online Exhibition
> Information to the Research project "Images on Seals"



Photo Archives and the Photographic Memory of Art History, Part II
An International conference on the connection between photography and the history of art in collaboration with the Courtauld Institute of Art, London
29 - 31 October 2009


Comunicato Stampa 19 ottobre 2009 (pdf)

Pressemitteilung 19. Oktober 2009 (pdf)

Press Release 19 October 2009 (pdf)

Program (pdf)

 

> International Conference "Photo Archives and the Photographic Memory of Art History - Part II"
> Information to the Research project "Photography as a Tool and Medium of Art History"



The Cloister of Monreale
An Online Exhibition by the photo library of the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz - Max-Planck-Institut
beginning on 22 June 2009


Comunicato Stampa 22 giugno 2009 (pdf)

Pressemitteilung 22. Juni 2009 (pdf)

Press Release 22 June 2009 (pdf)

 

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> Information to the Research project "Cenobium"



Crossing Boundaries, Creating Images: In Search of the Prophet Muhammad in Literary and Visual Traditions
An International conference organised by Avinoam Shalem
16 - 18 July 2009


Comunicato Stampa 8 luglio 2009 (pdf)

Pressemitteilung 8. Juli 2009 (pdf)

Program (pdf)

 

> Conference "Crossing Boundaries, Creating Images: In Search of the Prophet Muhammad in Literary and Visual Traditions"
> Information to the Research projects of the Max Planck Fellow



Kunstgeschichten. Parlare dell'Arte nel Trecento
An International conference organised by Gerhard Wolf
4 - 6 June 2009


Comunicato Stampa 25 maggio 2009 (pdf)

Pressemitteilung 25. Mai 2009 (pdf)

Program (pdf)

 

> International Conference "Kunstgeschichten. Parlare dell'Arte nel Trecento"



Cimelia Photographica
An Online Exhibition by the photo library of the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz
beginning on 23 Fabruary 2009


Comunicato Stampa 23 Febbraio 2009 (pdf)

Pressemitteilung 23. Februar 2009 (pdf)

Press Release 23 February 2009 (pdf)

 

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> Information to the Research project "Cimelia Photographica"



Inside Out in the Piazza: Shaping Space, Defining the City
An International symposium organised by the research group "Piazza e monumento": Alessandro Nova, Cornelia Jöchner, Niall Atkinson, Brigitte Sölch, Stephanie Hanke and Frithjof Schwarz
6 - 9 November 2008


Pressemitteilung 30. Oktober 2008 (pdf)

Press Release 3 November 2008 (pdf)

Comunicato stampa 3 novembre 2008 (pdf)

Program (pdf)

 

> International Conference "Inside and outside: How Does the Square Shape the City?"
> Information to the Research projects of the group "Piazza e monumento"



Casa Vasari in Florence
An Online Exhibition by the photo library of the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz - Max-Planck-Institut
beginning on 27 October 2008


Pressemitteilung 27. Oktober 2008 (pdf)

Press Release 27 October 2008 (pdf)

Comunicato stampa 27 ottobre 2008 (pdf)

 

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Le tecniche del disegno rinascimentale: dai materiali allo stile
An International conference organised by Marzia Faietti, Lorenza Melli and Alessandro Nova
22 - 23 September 2008


Pressemitteilung 10. September 2008 (pdf)

Comunicato stampa 10 settembre 2008 (pdf)

Program (pdf)

 

> International Conference "Le tecniche del disegno rinascimentale: dai materiali allo stile"



Georgia - Medieval Monuments
An Online Exhibition by the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz - Max-Planck-Institut
beginning on 7 July 2008


Pressemitteilung 7. Juli 2008 (pdf)

Press Release 7 July 2008 (pdf)

Comunicato stampa 7 luglio 2008 (pdf)

 

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> Information to the Research project "Medieval Georgia in a Cross-Cultural Perspective"



Das Mittelmeer 1860-1960 - Poesie und Politik eines Raumes
An International conference by the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz - Max-Planck-Institut in collaboration with the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz
4 - 5 July 2008, Pergamonmuseum, Berlin


Das Mittelmeer 1860-1960 - Poesie und Politik eines Raumes (pdf)

Program (pdf)

 

> International Conference "The Mediterranean: Poetics and Politics 1860-1960"
> Information to the Research project "Das Mittelmeer/al-bahr al-Mutawassit/akdeniz/il mediterraneo/la méditerranée. Poetik und Politik eines Raumes 1860-1960 - litora II"



Gli studi anatomici di Leonardo
An International conference organised by Alessandro Nova and Domenico Laurenza
30 - 31 March 2008


Gli studi anatomici di Leonardo (pdf)

Program (pdf)

 

> International Conference "Gli studi anatomici di Leonardo"
> Information to the Research project "Leonardo da Vinci und die Anatomie"



Views of Florence from the print collection of the Photothek
An Online Exhibition by Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz - Max-Planck-Institut
beginning on 28 April 2008


Florentiner Ansichten aus der druckgraphischen Sammlung der Photothek. Eine Online-Ausstellung des Kunsthistorischen Instituts in Florenz (pdf)

Florentine Views from the Print Collection of the Photo Library. An Online Exhibition by Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz (pdf)

Vedute fiorentine dalla Raccolta grafica della Fototeca. Una mostra Online del Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz (pdf)

 

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Die Vite Vasaris. Entstehung - Topoi - Rezeption
An International conference organised by Charles Davis, Katja Lemelsen and Alessandro Nova
13 - 17 February 2008


Die Vite Vasaris: Entstehung - Topoi - Rezeption (pdf)

Program (pdf)

 

> International Conference "Le Vite di Vasari: Genesi - Topoi - Ricezione"
> Information to the German translation of the 'Vite' of Giorgio Vasari



Photography as a Tool and Medium of Art History
Series of lectures by the photo library of the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz - Max-Planck-Institut


Fotografie als Instrument und Medium der Kunstgeschichte (pdf)

La fotografia come strumento e medium della storia dell'arte (pdf)

 

> Lecture of Peter Geimer ("Kunstgeschichte mit und ohne Farbe. Malerei und Fotografie im 19. Jahrhundert")
> Lecture of Kelley Wilder ("Photography and the Archive")
> Lecture of Pascal Griener ("La résistance à la photographie en France au XIXème siècle: les publications d'histoire de l'art")
> Lecture of Dorothea Peters ("'Das Schwierigste ist eben ... das, was uns das Leichteste zu sein dünkt - nämlich das Sehen'. Kunstgeschichte und Fotografie am Beispiel Giovanni Morellis (1816-1891)")
> Lecture of Heinrich Dilly ("Weder Grimm, noch Schmarsow, geschweige denn Wölfflin... - Zur jüngsten Diskussion über die Diaprojektion um 1900")
> Information to the Research project "Photography as a Tool and Medium of Art History"



ZANG TUMB TUUM... - 100 works of the futurism
An Online Exhibition by the library of the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz - Max-Planck-Institut
beginning on 28 January 2008


ZANG TUMB TUUM... - 100 Werke des Futurismus. Eine Online Ausstellung der Bibliothek des Kunsthistorischen Instituts in Florenz (pdf)

ZANG TUMB TUUM... - 100 opere del futurismo. Una mostra online della biblioteca del Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz (pdf)

 

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> Information to the Database "Pro Firenze futurista - A digital research Archive for Futurism in FLorence



Assisi 1997
An Online Exhibition by the photo library of the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz - Max-Planck-Institut
beginning on 26 September 2007


Assisi 1997 - Eine Online Ausstellung der Photothek des Kunsthistorischen Instituts in Florenz (pdf)

Assisi 1997 - An Online Exhibition by the photo library of the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz (pdf)

Assisi 1997 - Una mostra online della fototeca del Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz (pdf)

 

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Jacob-Burckhardt-Preis 2007 / Stipendium des Vereins zur Förderung des Kunsthistorischen Instituts in Florenz e.V.
Die Direktoren und der Verein zur Förderung des Kunsthistorischen Instituts in Florenz e.V. vergeben den Jacob-Burckhardt-Preis 2007 an Johannes Myssok (Universität Münster).
Das Stipendium des Vereins zur Förderung des Kunsthistorischen Instituts in Florenz e.V. erhält 2007 Eckhard Leuschner (Universität Passau).


Pressemitteilung premio Burckhardt 2007 (pdf)

 

> Award of the Jacob Burckhardt Prize
> Further information to the Jacob Burckhardt Prize



Hilde Lotz-Bauer in Florence
An Online Exhibition by the photo library of the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz - Max-Planck-Institut
beginning on 25 June 2007


Hilde Lotz Bauer in Florenz - Eine Online-Ausstellung der Photothek des Kunsthistorischen Instituts in Florenz (pdf)

Hilde Lotz-Bauer in Florence - An Online Exhibition by the photo library of the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz (pdf)

Hilde Lotz-Bauer a Firenze - Una mostra online della fototeca del Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz (pdf)

 

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Inaugural Lecture of Alessandro Nova
"La dolce morte": i disegni anatomici di Leonardo e il valore cognitivo delle immagini
12 June 2007


Inauguralvortrag von Alessandro Nova (pdf)

Conferenza inaugurale di Alessandro Nova (pdf)

  > Inaugural Lecture of Alessandro Nova ("'La dolce morte': i disegni anatomici di Leonardo e il valore cognitivo delle immagini")



Casa Zuccari. An artist's house in Florence
An Online Exhibition by the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz - Max-Planck-Institut
beginning on 2 April 2007


Casa Zuccari. Ein Florentiner Künstlerhaus - Eine Online-Ausstellung des Kunsthistorischen Instituts in Florenz (pdf)

Casa Zuccari. An artist's house in Florence - An Online Exhibition by Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz (pdf)

Casa Zuccari. Una casa d'artista a Firenze - Una mostra online del Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz (pdf)

 

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Contrappunti
Arte contemporanea alla Casa Zuccari
Nel giardino delle Esperidi – Arance per HvM
Erwin Wortelkamp
18 November - 10 December 2006


Nel giardino delle Esperidi - Arance per HvM (pdf)

 



The Flood of 1966
An Online Exhibition by the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz - Max-Planck-Institut
beginning on 4 November 2006


L'alluvione 1966 - Una mostra online del Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz (pdf)

Die Flut 1966 - Eine Online-Ausstellung des Kunsthistorischen Instituts in Florenz (pdf)

Die Flut 1966 - Bilder (zip)

 

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Berufung von Alessandro Nova zum Direktor am Kunsthistorischen Institut in Florenz
Max-Planck-Institut


Berufung Alessandro Nova (pdf)

 

Il mare. Scambi e cofini
An International conference organised by Hannah Baader and Gerhard Wolf
16 - 18 June 2006


Il mare. Scambi e confini. - Das Meer, der Tausch und die Grenzen (pdf)

Program (pdf)

 



Das Digitale Archiv zur Kunsttopographie italienischer Städte
A project by the library of the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz - Max-Planck-Institut


projekt_topographie (pdf)

 

> Information to the Research project "Digitales Archiv zur Kunsttopographie italienischer Städte: Florenz"



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