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Research institute for the history of art and architecture founded in 1913 by Henriette Hertz. Part of @maxplanckgesellschaft. 📍 Rome, Italy
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#OTD 60 years ago, on November 4, 1966, the Florence flood devastated thousands of artworks, including Cimabue's Crucifix in Santa Croce. The enormous challenge of its restoration became an occasion to rethink the treatment of lacunae. How far should we intervene to address loss and repair damage – and what traces should remain visible? What do gaps reveal about the history of an object and the decisions that shape its future?
The lacunae of Cimabue’s Crucifix feature on the poster for our upcoming conference, LACUNA: Conservation, Law, and the Ethics of the Incomplete, organized by the head of the Lise Meitner Research Group, @francesca.borgo, in collaboration with Caroline Fowler, Starr Director of the Research and Academic Program at @clarkart. Bringing together art history, conservation, and legal theory, the conference asks how lacunae function as sites of decision, deferral, exclusion, and possibility.
🗓️ Join us in Rome, 2–4 December 2026.
🔗 More info at our link in bio > Event calendar
Photo Credit: CRIA, Villa I Tatti; Archivio dell’Opera di Santa Croce (Foto Francesco Chimenti e Paolo Mariani)
04 Nov 2026
🎼 Evento “OCTOGINTA – Sentieri principali, sentieri secondari, sentieri sbagliati, sentieri ciechi”
🗓️ 4 novembre 2026, ore 18
📍 Roma, Bibliotheca Hertziana – Villino Stroganoff, via Gregoriana 22
Abbiamo il piacere di invitarvi al concerto serale “OCTOGINTA – Sentieri principali, sentieri secondari, sentieri sbagliati, sentieri ciechi”, dedicato al compositore Luca Lombardi.
ℹ️ Il compositore romano Luca Lombardi è uno dei più importanti mediatori tra la cultura tedesca e quella italiana. In occasione del suo ottantesimo compleanno, la Bibliotheca Hertziana – Istituto Max Planck di Storia dell’Arte e l’Istituto per le Infrastrutture Culturali della Sassonia organizzano una serata di concerto-dibattito nel giardino del Villino Stroganoff. «Octoginta» rende omaggio all’opera e all’attività di Lombardi attraverso l’esecuzione di due dei suoi quartetti d’archi, insieme alla esecuzione di un’opera del suo allievo Giordano De Nisi e alla prima assoluta della giovane compositrice romana Martina Cavazza Preta. Canta Giulia Zaniboni (soprano); suona il Quartetto Eos; recita Matthias Theodor Vogt.
🎟️ Accesso libero fino a esaurimento posti
🔗 Maggiori informazioni al nostro link in bio > Event Calendar.
02 Nov 2026
🌿 How do art historians and historians make landscape and its transformations intelligible? What can conceptualizations of landscape contribute to our understanding of objects, art and architecture? Members of the institute recently explored the Val di Chiana to discuss these different perspectives on historical spaces and landscapes in an excursion organized by Luc Wodzicki (@lucwodzicki).
🌾 During visits to the Canale Maestro, the Leopoldine farmhouses of Montecchio Vesponi and the Abbey of Farneta, the group examined how water management, agriculture and religious imagery and spaces shaped the territory and its perception. Discussions also addressed the social and political consequences of landscape change. Moving between panoramic viewpoints and individual sites, participants reflected on how their own research questions shape their understanding of what constitutes a landscape.
🏛️ In Cortona, visits to the Museo dell’Accademia Etrusca e della Città di Cortona (@maec_cortona), its library and the Museo Diocesano (@museodiocesanocortona) brought these questions into dialogue with antiquarian knowledge, collecting practices and painted landscapes. From Cortona’s famous panoramic viewpoint, the group also discussed changing agricultural practices and their representation, including in the work of Duilio Peruzzi.
🎬 At Lake Trasimeno, contemporary sculpture at Campo del Sole and newsreels from the 1950s and 1960s prompted discussions of how visual representations frame our understanding of landscape: whose experiences become visible, and what remains outside of the picture?
Participants included Tanja Michalsky, Adrian Bremenkamp, Elisabetta Scirocco (@bettinascirocco), Maximilian Fischer (@maximiliannutzername), Alberto Virdis (@alb4ss0), Elisabetta Rattalino (@motherofoaks), Andrea Gelardi, Malvina Giordana, Júlia Pérez Gonell and Luc Wodzicki (@lucwodzicki). Many thanks to Patrizia Rocchini, head of the MAEC library, for welcoming us and sharing her knowledge!
📸 Photos by Maximilian Fischer and Adrian Bremenkamp
28 Oct 2026
💭 When does an artwork end? Can art history continue when objects disappear? Why are decay, persistence and care such pressing issues today?
These questions guided the roundtable chaired by Lise Meitner group leader Francesca Borgo at “Matter of Time: Transformation, Persistence and Discontinuity in the Life of Artworks”, @cafoscari's 8th International PhD Conference in History of Arts, held in Venice on 12–14 October. It brought the Lise Meitner Research Group of the BHMPI into dialogue with Ca’ Foscari’s doctoral community and the conference’s international participants. They explored how changing material conditions shape artwork histories, how art-historical methods change when materials are reused, dispersed or lost, and the language of “lives” and “afterlives.” The collaboration offered an opportunity to share questions across periods, media and disciplinary boundaries.
🙏 A huge thank you to the doctoral organizers and participants for a stimulating exchange!
23 Oct 2026
Our interns had the pleasure of visiting our library's restoration workshop, led by conservator Serena Galetti. Serena and the interns from Istituto Centrale per la Patologia degli Archivi e del Libro @icpal.mic illustrated several conservation processes and explained the techniques used. All the treated items are from our RARA holdings, a special collection of rare and antique books.
Since 2017, the entire collection has been undergoing restoration in close collaboration with the ICPAL and with special funding from the Max Planck Gesellschaft @maxplanckgesellschaft. A team of conservators examines each volume and documents any damage. The volumes are then treated in accordance with modern conservation standards in the library’s in-house workshop.
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Serena presented to the group the volume that she is currently restoring: the 1499 Rome guide "In isto opusculo dicit quomodo Romulus [et] Remus nati sunt [et] educati" printed by Eucharist Silver (collocation Dg 450-991 Coll. rom.). This incunabulum is among the oldest items in the Collezione romana. The volumes in this collection are mainly guides for pilgrims travelling to the eternal city that contained Information on the pilgrimage churches, relics and indulgences. The incunabulum describes seven main churches: San Pietro, San Paolo fuori le Mura, San Sebastiano, San Giovanni in Laterano, Santa Croce in Gerusalemme, San Lorenzo fuori le Mura e Santa Maria Maggiore. The expanded version then lists a further 87 churches.
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The Hertziana collects guidebooks of Rome in order to document the changes in the city and how it was perceived throughout the centuries. The foundation for this was laid by Ludwig Schudt (1893–1961), the institute's first head librarian. He systematically expanded the collection and in 1930 published his seminal work "Le Guide di Roma".
One last swipe to see our interns in the field 👉
Inspired by the historical guide books, a group of interns then set out on the 25 km route of the seven pilgrimage churches!
22 Oct 2026
💭 How can we advance an understanding of the Great Acceleration by examining the art produced during the second half of the twentieth century?
Join us online or on-site for the international seminar “Elemental Ecologies: Art Histories of Situatedness and Drift from the Great Acceleration”. Given the extent to which so many artists from this era worked with new manufactured materials, techniques and media, this International Seminar wants to explore how their creative innovations reflected or resisted the reorganization of planetary matter and the epistemologies underpinning those transformations.
🗓️ 29–30 October 2026
📍 Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, Rome
🎟️ Free access, no registration required
🎥 Live stream available, links at event page
🔗 Link in bio > Event Calendar
Scientific organization:
Elisabetta Rattalino (BHMPI) @motherofoaks
Edward Christie and Alistair Rider (@uniofstandrews)
The image shows the Baker test during Operation Crossroads, a series of two nuclear weapons tests conducted by the United States at Bikini Atoll. 25th July 1946, photo: U.S. Army Photographic Signal Corps – Public Domain.
19 Oct 2026
Abbiamo il piacere di presentare una nuova mostra di ricerca allestita nel nostro spazio espositivo al piano terra di Palazzo Zuccari:
TRAME DI TEMPO
Progetti dello Studio Da Gai 1991–2026. Ricerca, restauro e innovazione in dialogo
A cura di Laura Da Gai, Clotilde Faraglia, Margeaux Fiorillo
📅14.10.2026–29.01.2027, Lun–Ven 9:30–18:30
🎟️Accesso gratuito senza registrazione, max. 5 persone
📍Via Gregoriana 30, Roma
🔗Tutte le informazioni al nostro link in bio > EVENT CALENDAR
Nel 1996 la Bibliotheca Hertziana incarica lo Studio di architettura Da Gai di occuparsi prima della possibilità urbanistica di sostituire il vecchio edificio della biblioteca dell’istituto con una nuova costruzione progettata da Juan Navarro Baldeweg e poi della direzione dei lavori per la sua realizzazione. Un’opera estremamente complessa, la cui costruzione porta con sé tutte le istanze di salvaguardia delle facciate storiche e delle strutture archeologiche della villa di Lucullo integrate con un’architettura moderna di ricercata qualità.
Fin dal 1991 lo Studio Da Gai è impegnato in attività di progettazione e direzione di importanti complessi storico-artistici-architettonici oltre che nella ricerca storico-documentaria. La mostra presenta alcuni progetti di particolare interesse scientifico per il tema della salvaguardia e valorizzazione dei beni culturali in ambienti storici caratterizzati da complesse stratificazioni. Cinque pannelli illustrano i progetti più rappresentativi e tre pannelli tematici gli ambiti di ricerca e di intervento che caratterizzano l’attività: la meccanica strutturale degli antichi edifici, il recupero delle stratificazioni storiche e l’integrazione con gli usi contemporanei, il restauro storico-artistico.
📷 Enrico Fontolan
16 Oct 2026
When AI meets Art History 🏛️🤖
Last week, our Digital Labs team packed their bags for Rome to visit our colleagues @bhmpi
Together, we’re building the Hertziana Discovery Bot, an AI-powered research assistant that makes it easier to search and explore digitized art historical sources 📚✨
On site, we presented the current state of development, gathered valuable feedback from the researchers, and talked about next steps and future collaboration. Grazie mille for the inspiring exchange!
All roads lead to Rome, and this one leads to smarter research 🛣️
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#MaxIT #MPG #BibliothecaHertziana #AI #Art #DigitalHumanities #Research #Rome #Innovation #MaxPlanck
15 Oct 2026
We’ve just wrapped up the Methodology Seminars for Art History in Ukraine in Lviv!
This year’s edition, titled Art History in the Expanded Field, brought together 9 pre-doctoral and early-career post-doctoral researchers, whose projects spanned from medieval to contemporary art and engaged with transnational, ecological, and social perspectives.
The seminar followed a series of online reading groups held from April to August, bringing participants into conversation with leading experts in the field: Aleksandra Lipińska (University of Cologne), Sophie Berrebi (University of Amsterdam), Adrian Ivakhiv (Simon Fraser University), and Paula Barreiro López (University of Toulouse II).
Over five days in Lviv, these discussions continued through visits, conversations, and public lectures, allowing the researchers to explore the city and its artistic, architectural, and intellectual landscapes together.
Programme committee:
Kateryna Filyuk
Lesia Kulchynska
Oleksandra Osadcha
The Methodology Seminars for Art History in Ukraine stem from the collaboration between the Research Centre Ukraine / Max Weber Foundation (Lviv), Bibliotheca Hertziana - Max Planck Institute for Art History (Rome), and the Getty Foundation’s Connecting Art Histories program.
@bmftr_bund
@maxweberstiftung
07 Oct 2026
🏛️ Amicizia – Histories of Palazzo Zuccari and Trinità dei Monti in Dialogue
📅 9 October 2026, 4-5:50 pm and 6-7 pm
📍 Antica Biblioteca, Piazza della Trinità dei Monti 3, Rome
📍 Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, Rome
📝 Registration required (partially)
🔗 All info at our link in bio > Event Calendar
✨ This special event explores the historical connections between Trinità dei Monti and Palazzo Zuccari (home of the Bibliotheca Hertziana) and is part of the events program of the current exhibition HYPOTHÈSE DE LECTURE @trinitadeimonti, curated by Gaia Bobò and Teresa Ranchino. As the exhibition celebrates Paris and Rome as twin cities, the public program also celebrates collaborations with neighboring institutes of Trinità dei Monti.
The connection between Trinità dei Monti and Palazzo Zuccari can be traced back to the 16th century, when Trinità dei Monti housed the monastery of the Minim Friars. In his detailed historical study of Trinità dei Monti, Fourier Bonnard wrote that the brothers Federico and Taddeo Zuccari “almost always maintained friendly relations with their neighbors, the Minims of Trinità.”
Building on this historical friendship and on the current exhibition HYPOTHÈSE DE LECTURE at the Antica Biblioteca of Trinità dei Monti, this event explores the shared history of the two buildings and will include presentations on 17th-century links between the buildings, as well as a presentation about the photographic presence of the two buildings in the photographic collections of the Bibliotheca Hertziana.
05 Oct 2026
📢 Call for Postdoctoral Research Fellows in Digital Art History
📍 Rome, Italy
⏳ Application deadline: 19 October 2026
🔗 Full call and application info at our link in bio > Opportunities
ℹ️ The Max Planck Research Group “Machine Visual Culture: Artificial Intelligence and the History of Seeing,” led by Leonardo Impett, invites applications for postdoctoral research fellowships in digital and computational art history. The group investigates the reciprocal relationship between artificial intelligence and visual culture. It combines digital and computational art history, critical AI studies, and the history of art and visual culture to study both AI as a cultural phenomenon and computational methods as tools for new historical research. These fellowships are intended for researchers who wish to develop their work as part of a collaborative research group. Successful candidates will work closely with Leonardo Impett and the Machine Visual Culture group, and will be expected to contribute actively to the group’s shared research agenda. Applications should therefore explain not only the applicant’s own research profile, but also how they would contribute to one of the following projects:
Intellectual Histories of Art History
AI and Cross-, Inter-, and Multimodal Art History
Computational Ecological and Environmental Histories of Art and Visual Culture
🎓 Candidates must have submitted their PhD by the start date of the fellowship. Fellows must be able to reside in Rome for the duration of the appointment and participate actively in the research life of the group and the institute. Fellowships are available for twelve months and may be renewed once, subject to approval and available funding.
✍️ Applications should be submitted in English and should include:
a cover letter
curriculum vitae
research proposal
sample of work or sample publication
two letters of reference
30 Sep 2026
📢 Call for Papers
Off the Front: European Artists and the Vietnam War (1955–1975)
📅May 17–18, 2027📍Rome | Bibliotheca Hertziana
⏳December 20, 2026
💭 How was the Vietnam War interpreted, mediated, and mobilized across a range of European artistic practices that reflected critically on the geopolitical alignments the conflict brought into view?
For the international conference “Off the Front: European Artists and the Vietnam War (1955–1975)” we invite papers addressing the following themes:
→ Institutional critique
→ Images of the conflict
→ Bringing the war home: solidarity, symbol, dissent
→ Collaborative practices and the rethinking of authorship
→ The role of European art criticism
→ Anti-war art and its visual idioms
✍️ Submit your abstract (1,000–1,500 words) and a short CV (max. 150 words) in English by December 20, 2026.
🔗 Full call and further information in today’s stories and at our link in bio > Opportunities
📷 Renato Guttuso, Documentario sul Vietnam, 1965, tempera, ink, oil paint, and collage on canvas, 151 × 220 cm. Akademie der Künste, Kunstsammlung, Berlin (courtesy Archivi Guttuso, Rome)
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@gianlorenzo.chi
@_caterinamartinelli
24 Sep 2026
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