investigation on mannerism
call for abstracts
November 1, 2020
symposium
December 15-16, 2020
curated by Lina Malfona (UniPi) and Valerio Paolo Mosco (IUAV)
The long wars for European domination, the Sack of Rome, violent epidemics, the dissolution of the unified Church, and the publication of Copernicus’ De revolutionibus orbium caelestium were the primary causes of the profound crisis in Europe throughout the sixteenth century. This uncertain climate saw the development of Mannerism, an artistic and cultural period wedged between the Renaissance and the Baroque. Still, aspects of Mannerism have persisted for so long that architects and historians—like Arnold Hauser, Colin Rowe, Manfredo Tafuri and Robert Venturi—wrote about Mannerism as a relevant and constitutive condition of Western culture.
Indeed, our time carries deep similarities to the sixteenth-century crisis. Political, economic, and cultural instability walk alongside a new kind of Copernican revolution: that is, the evolution of information technologies—as powerful as they are ambiguous—that have generated such a vigorous transformation as to alter, duplicate, and overturn our very sense of reality. Jean-François Lyotard had already announced this revolution in 1979, when he launched Postmodernism with La Condition postmoderne. Postmodernism as an artistic tendency shares some undeniable affinities with Mannerism, so much so that today it is difficult to read Mannerism without the postmodernist lens. The similarities between these two movements concern their common propensity for intellectual games, subversions of the canon, variations of scale, caprices, scenic design, and a tendency to carry out a dialogue with history.
Episodes of crisis and subsequent re-appropriation of the past occur cyclically, and Mannerism itself can be seen as an underground current that emerges every so often in the art history. Is it therefore appropriate to speak of yet another mannerist condition today? In this light, the proposed investigation is a tool to understand this meta-historical condition and to launch it in a future perspective.
L'idea di Manierismo - Prof. Paolo Portoghesi
Sessione 1
15 12 2020 - Mattina
Marco Abate
Lina Malfona
Paolo Portoghesi
Margherita Petranzan
Denise Ulivieri
Paola Nicolin
Adriana Granato
Sessione 2
15 12 2020 Pomeriggio
Renato Rizzi
Claudio Strinati
Denise Rae Costanzo
Tiffany Lynn Hunt
Wilfried Wang
Paolo Zermani
Sessione 3
16 12 2020 Mattina
Marco Biraghi
Alessandro Melis
Maria Luisa Frisa
Andrew Leach
Franco Purini
Sessione 4
16 12 2020 Pomeriggio
Alejandro Zaera-Polo
Luca Lanini
Luca Molinari
Sylvia Lavin
Timeline and introduction of speakers by / Introduce i partecipanti e modera
Lucia Giorgetti
Questions acceptance and reading / Ricezione e trasmissione delle domande
simposio.manierismo@ing.unipi.it
Conference registration by December 12 / Registrazione alla conferenza entro il 12 Dicembre
simposio.manierismo@ing.unipi.it
December 15th, 2020
15 dicembre 2020
09.00
Opening / Apertura
09.30
Conference introduction / Introduzione del simposio /
Lina Malfona, UniPi
10.00
L’idea di Manierismo, lectio magistralis
Paolo Portoghesi, UniRoma1
10.45
Quale Manierismo?
Margherita Petranzan, PoliMi
11.15
“Predominanza dell’affacciamento”: dall’ingegno manierista di Bernardo Buontalenti all’architettura della linea e del colore di Francesco Tomassi
Denise Ulivieri, UniPi
11.45
Regola e licenza: educazione e maniera nelle arti visive
Paola Nicolin, Università Bocconi
12:15
Primitivo Contemporaneo: alla maniera della materia
Adriana Granato, PoliMi
12.30
Discussion / Dibattito
Pausa / Break
15.00
Il manierismo nella scultura
Claudio Strinati, UniRoma5
15.30
Ammutinamento e mistica: John Hejduk
Renato Rizzi, IUAV
16.00
What's Mannerism Got to Do with It? Colin Rowe, Robert Venturi, and Architectures of Ambivalence
Denise Rae Costanzo, Penn State University
16.30
Reality and Mannerism: Radical Normality Versus Constant Late Adolescence
Wilfried Wang, UTSOA
17.00
Iconicity of Mannerism: a Transhistorical Reading
Tiffany Lynn Hunt, Temple University
17.15
Reimpianto
Paolo Zermani, UniFi
18.00
Discussion / Dibattito
16 dicembre 2020
December 16th, 2020
09.30
Opening and Introduction / Apertura e introduzione della II giornata
Valerio Paolo Mosco, IUAV
10.00
Architettura Remix
Marco Biraghi, PoliMi
10.30
Mannerism Through the Lens of Architectural Exaptation
Alessandro Melis, University of Portsmouth
11.00
à la mode de la mode
Maria Luisa Frisa, IUAV
11.30
Giusta Nicco Fasola and the Historiography of Mannerism
Andrew Leach, The University of Sydney
12.00
Il Manierismo continuo
Franco Purini, UniRoma1
12.30
Discussion / Dibattito
Break / Pausa
15.00
The End of Manners: New Intolerances for the After-Post-Truth Age
Alejandro Zaera-Polo, AZPML
15.40
Il Manierismo moderno di Giuseppe Terragni
Luca Lanini, UniPi
16:10
Condizione del Manierismo contemporaneo
Luca Molinari, UniCampania
16:40
The Postmodernization of Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown
Sylvia Lavin, Princeton University
17:20
Discussion and conclusion / Dibattito e chiusura simposio
Ritratto di un giovane uomo
Attr. Parmigianino
1520s
Musée du Louvre, Paris
