Fall 2020 Seminars
Watch seminar-style presentations and discussions of the current work of scholars affiliated with the O’Donnell Institute’s Center for the Art and Architectural History of Port Cities in Naples.
Introduction to the projects of 2020-2021 Predoctoral Research Residents
2 October 2020
CRYSTAL ROSENTHAL, Agents on the Shore: Freestanding Arches in Roman Port Cities
JACOB EISENSMITH, Ottoman Otranto: Southern Italian Artistic Responses to an Ottoman Invasion
Research Updates from 2019-2020 Predoctoral Research Residents
21 September 2020
DIANA MELLON, Health, Bathing, and Site-Specificity in the Illuminated De balneis Puteolanis
CLAIRE JENSEN, Annunziata Art: Trecento Frescoes in Sant’Agata de’ Goti
LISA MALBERG, Theatine Churches in Naples: Sacred Space and Urban Context in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Naples
NATHAN REEVES, Urban Space, Plebe Musicians, and Buon Governo in Spanish Naples, 1537-1632
FABRIZIO BALLABIO
16 October 2020
FABRIZIO BALLABIO, PhD Candidate, University of York – 2018-2019 Predoctoral Research Resident at La Capraia, Power on Death’s Borders: Fuga’s Camposanto for the Hospital of the Incurabili and the Politics of Burial Reform in Eighteenth-Century Naples
ELIZABETH DUNTEMANN
30 October 2020
ELIZABETH DUNTEMANN, PhD Candidate, Temple University – 2018-2019 Predoctoral Research Resident at La Capraia, Healing Environments of Chronic Infirmity: The Ospedale degli Incurabili in Sixteenth-Century Naples
EDWARD PAYNE
13 November 2020
EDWARD PAYNE, Assistant Professor, Aarhus University – 2020-2021, Affiliated Postdoctoral Researcher at La Capraia, Sights and Sounds of the Square: Reconstructing the Tribunale della Vicaria in Seicento Naples
GIANLUCA PUCCIO
20 November 2020
GIANLUCA PUCCIO, PhD Candidate, Università degli studi della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli – 2020-2021, Affiliated Predoctoral Researcher at La Capraia, Sulle tracce di Padre Resta nelle collezioni di Capodimonte
CAROLINE BRUZELIUS and PAOLA VITOLO
11 December 2020
Professor CAROLINE BRUZELIUS, Duke University
Professor PAOLA VITOLO, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Why Make an Image Website? Digital Tools and New Perspectives in Art History