Talk: Images: sites, displacement, display

The School of Arts and Aesthetics, JNU and Max Mueller Bhavan, New Delhi
cordially invite you to a series of brief talks by

Gerhard Wolf/Hannah Baader/Barbara Wittmann

Sites, displacement and display of images: Padova 1378,  Mexico/Italy 
1538, Paris 1860

at 6:30 pm on Monday, 8th January 2007
At Siddhartha Hall, Max Mueller Bhavan, 3 Kasturba Gandhi Marg



Gerhard Wolf is Director of the Max Planck Institute's Art History 
Institute (Kunsthistoriches Institut) in Florence, Italy. His work 
focusses on aspects of art and visual culture in Italy, from late 
Antiquity to the Early Modern Period, including a historical 
anthropology of image and media. This presentation will focus on 
artistic exchange between Mexico and Italy in the 16th c.

Hannah Baader is a Fellow at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florence, 
Max-Planck-Institute. Her earlier work on the significance of male 
friendship for Renaissance art is now followed by a study on premodern 
theories of perception. Her presentation will focus on the problem of 
the place of the images in christian art in the late medieval period.

Barbara Wittmann is research scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the 
History of Science in Berlin. She wrote her Ph.D. thesis on Edouard 
Manet's portraiture and is currently working on a book about the history 
of children's drawings. Her talk will deal with the development of 
modernist exhibition practices and its impact on impressionist painting.