❗❕Due to popular demand the exhibition Chi esce entra. A Tribute Exhibition to a Disappearing Building, curated by Simon Würsten Marin, has been extended until Nov 23! 🗓️Open Wed–Fri, 16:00–20:00 ➕Extended hours on Sat & Sun, 14:00–20:00 📍Via Gregoriana 9, Rome 🔗 www.biblhertz.it/chi-esce-entra

📢 Call for Applications: Field School 2026 📢 Byzantium – Constantinople – Istanbul. Body and Infrastructure of a Heterogeneous Metropolis Organized by Tanja Michalsky and Anna Magnago Lampugnani 📅 18–24 May 2026 ⏳ 15 December 2025 🔗 www.biblhertz.it/3736648/251105_Studienkurs-Istanbul

We are excited to announce that PHAROS: The International Association of Photo Archives just launched a new platform for researching artworks and architecture using AI and extensive metadata curated by experts. 👉 Access the database at artresearch.net

🇺🇦This week we welcome 12 Ukrainian art historians for the Methodology Seminars for Art History in Ukraine: Epistemologies, Agencies, and Margins. During their stay they present their work-in-progress and take part in a series of intense workshops with renowned scholars. Buon lavoro!

❕Join us TOMORROW afternoon for the presentation of the exhibition catalog of CHI ESCE ENTRA, followed by a panel discussion "Impossible Architecture: On Restoring Buildings and Cultural Memory". 🗓️Oct. 30, 5 PM 📍via Gregoriana 22 ⚠️ Registration required 🔗 Event page: www.biblhertz.it/events/43540...

📅 30 - 31 October 2025 📍 Florence & Online Conference org. by the the Max Planck Heritage Network (Hannah Baader, Francesca Borgo, Christoph Brumann, Mark Hudson, Lisa Onaga). ➡️ t1p.de/y66h9 @bhmpi.bsky.social @mpiwg.bsky.social @maxplanck.de 📷 Kyoto, Gion Matsuri (祇園祭). © Christoph Brumann.

📢 Call for Applications The Lise Meitner Group “Decay, Loss, and Conservation in Art History” invites applications for a Predoctoral Fellowship (up to 12 months), starting in the spring of 2026. 📍 Rome-based ⏳ January 15, 2026, 12:00 CEST 🔗 To learn more & apply: www.biblhertz.it/3730578/2510...

The exhibition "Disegnare per capire: Franz Graf Wolff-Metternich e la genesi della nuova Basilica di San Pietro. Ipotesi e ricostruzioni (1953–1978)” is on show in Palazzo Zuccari until 31 March 2026, from Monday to Friday (except holidays) from 9:30 am – 6:30 pm. ℹ️ www.biblhertz.it/de/mostra-me...

🗺️📍🇹🇷 The latest field seminar of the Department Michalsky led scholars on an exploration of Istanbul's most significant monuments. Aptly named “Byzantion–Constantinople–Istanbul” the trip focused on understanding the many historical and cultural layers that shape the city on the Bosphorus.

A huge thank you to artists, guests & staff for an incredible opening night of CHI ESCE ENTRA, curated by Simon Würsten Marin with the assistance of Silvia Carletti. 🔗 Further information on guided tours, access and the catalogue: www.biblhertz.it/chi-esce-ent...

📚NEW PUBLICATION📚 Tod A. Marder, “Bernini’s Architectural Drawings – An Extended Edition of Brauer and Wittkower’s Catalogue of 1931” (Römische Forschungen der Bibliotheca Hertziana, vol. 38) 🔗 www.biblhertz.it/en/pub/roemi...

Chi esce entra. A Tribute Exhibition to a Disappearing Building Curated by Simon Würsten Marin 🗓️ October 10th – November 9th, 2025 📍 Via Gregoriana 9, Rome 🥂 Vernissage: October 9th, 6 pm (registration mandatory) 🔗 More info and full program: tinyurl.com/ex2arz3x

New Research Exhibition: “Disegnare per capire: Franz Graf Wolff-Metternich e la genesi della nuova Basilica di San Pietro. Ipotesi e ricostruzioni (1953-1978)”, curated by Marta Guaglianone, Golo Maurer and Vitale Zanchettin. 🗓️ Vernissage: 8 Oct., 6:00 pm 🔗 www.biblhertz.it/de/mostra-me...

📢 CfP EAUH Conference 2026 – City Networks in Europe and Beyond 📍 Barcelona 📅 Sept. 2–5, 2026 Session: Urban Histories in Motion. Cartographic, Artistic, and Historiographical Representations of the City within Early Modern Intellectual Networks ⏳ Oct. 22, 2025. 🔗 www.biblhertz.it/en/opportuni...

📅 SAVE THE DATE: EXHIBITION OPENING We are pleased to announce Chi esce entra. A Tribute Exhibition to a Disappearing Bilduing, a site-specific and one-time exhibition curated by Simon Würsten Marin. 🗓️ October 9th, 18:00 📍 Via Gregoriana 9 🔗 More info and full program: tinyurl.com/ex2arz3x

WORKSHOP 🎨🧠Art and Labour in the Age of AI Join us next Monday for a reflection on artificial intelligence and its role in the reframing of artistic and non-artistic labour. 📍 Villino Stroganoff, Rome & streaming online 🗓️ Sept 29 | ⏰ 10:00–17:00 🔗 Full program & streaming link: tinyurl.com/mvk2vbsn

✨ As our research exhibition "Rework, Retouch, Care: Case Studies from the Hertziana Collection" closes, its story continues online 🔗 The online show invites you to revisit the works and explore the many layers of revision, reworking, and care they have undergone: galerie.biblhertz.it/en/rework/

📚 "Pablo Echaurren. Art for the Many" 📍 Museo del Novecento, Milano 🗓️ 1 ottobre 2025, ore 18:00 🎟️ Ingresso libero Presentazione del volume dedicato all’artista-attivista Pablo Echaurren con Raffaella Perna, Martina Caruso e Cristina Casero. 🔗 www.silvanaeditoriale.it/agenda/1538/...

📚NEUERSCHEINUNG📚 Heinrich Wölfflin Die Kunst Albrecht Dürers (1905) Herausgegeben von Tristan Weddigen, Oskar Bätschmann, Joris van Gastel Heinrich Wölfflin – Gesammelte Werke, Schriften, Bd. 6 🔗 www.biblhertz.it/de/pub/woelf... 🛒 schwabe.ch/heinrich-woe...

From the beach back to the books 📖 📚 Three more weeks to finalize your articles for volume 49 (2026) of the Römisches Jahrbuch der Bibliotheca Hertziana! ⌛We're looking forward to your submissions by September 30, 2025! 🔗 www.biblhertz.it/de/opportuni...

The Lise Meitner Group escaped fast-paced Rome with a trip to Villa d’Este, exploring the rich interplay of decay, loss & renewal in the afterlife of a Renaissance garden. Led by guest pre-doc Michael Barg, they themselves in the unique character of Ippolito II d’Este’s suburban retreat in Tivoli.

🚨 New job opening 🚨 ✍️Our Lise Meitner Group is seeking to appoint an Editorial Assistant/Associate. ⏳ Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis, and the position may be filled before the official deadline. We strongly encourage early submission! 🔗 www.biblhertz.it/en/opportuni...

"Is AI Art Net Art?" with Vladan Joler, Valentina Tanni & I, just wrapped up. You can already stream the discussion here! Thanks to the Bibliotheca Hertziana for the support. vimeo.com/event/5194804

📢 Call for Papers: Methodology Seminars for Art History in Ukraine 🇺🇦 In cooperation with the Getty Foundation as part of their Connecting Art History initiative (Los Angeles), and the Max Weber Stiftung Research Centre Ukraine (Lviv). 🔗 Full call: tinyurl.com/473tt… ⏳ July 7, 2025

A painting of our collection is now in the exhibition "Una Regina Polacca in Campidoglio. Maria Casimira e la famiglia reale Sobieski a Roma" at the Musei Capitolini! 📍 Musei Capitolini, Palazzo Caffarelli 📆 11.06.2025 – 21.09.2025 🔗 www.museicapitolini.org/it/mostra-ev...

🎉 Congratulations to Chiara Capulli, the recipient of the 2024 Hertziana Publication Prize for her manuscript, "Displacement and Reconfiguration: The Effects of the Florentine Guasto of 1529 on Devotional Spaces and Networks of Artistic Patronage"!

❗We are extending our Research Exhibition “Rework, Retouch, Care: Case Studies from the Hertziana Collection” until September 19, 2025❗ 📍Palazzo Zuccari, via Gregoriana 30 📆 3 March – 19 September 2025 I Mon–Fri, 9:30 am–6:30 pm 🎟️ Free entry 🔗 www.biblhertz.it/it/news/rewo...

Excited to be part of SUBLIME CLICHÉ, the Festival of Rome's Foreign Academies and Cultural Institutes! Our researchers Lara Demori & Giulia Beatrice are presenting their projects during the event Live Live Live! on Saturday 7 June at MACRO 👇 🔗 www.museomacro.it/rassegna/liv...

The exhibition DIAGRAMS at Fondazione Prada in Venice by OMA/AMO Studio and @sietskefransen.bsky.social, head of our Research Group "Visualizing Science in Media Revolutions", reflects on the relationship between human intelligence & the creation of knowledge: www.fondazioneprada.org/project/diag...

TODAY! – A new version of the #kubikat catalogue has been released! – www.kubikat.org Kubikat is the central catalogue for the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut, the @zikg.eu and @bhmpi.bsky.social #khiflorenz #kubikat #KhiLibrary

Yay! The new Kubikat is live now!

CFP: Römisches Jahrbuch der Bibliotheca Hertziana, vol. 49 https://arthist.net/archive/49185

⏰⌛Less than a week to apply for the position of Scientific Assistant in the Department of Tristan Weddigen! All info at the link 👇

📣The Call for Submissions for the next issue of the Römisches Jahrbuch der Bibliotheca Hertziana is out! Proposals for volume 49, due in autumn of 2026, may be submitted until September 30, 2025. 🔗All details here: www.biblhertz.it/en/opportuni... 📚More on the RJBH: www.biblhertz.it/en/pub/roemi...

I can’t wait to be in one of my favourite places, Rome, to speak at this conference at the Bibliotheca Hertziana. I will present an argument for a transcendental philosophy of computation. My abstract is the pic below, and full programme is here: www.biblhertz.it/events/41601... @bhmpi.bsky.social

🏛️Last week, the Lise Meitner Group set off to Venice for a rich research trip—delving into the intersections of materiality, conservation, and the body in early modern art. They visited Galleria dell'Academia, San Sebastiano, Palazzo Grimani and the reconstructed pharmacy Ai Do San Marchi.

📣ATTENTION POSTDOCS 📣 The Department Weddigen is seeking to appoint Scientific Assistants to the Director. 🔗 Full call and application instructions: www.biblhertz.it/de/opportuni... ⏳Deadline: May 11, 2025

⏰Don't forget to register for our Henriette Hertz Lecture! events.biblhertz.it/event/95/ This year's lecture "Consuming Modernism: Erich Mendelsohn, House Beautiful, and the Museum of Modern Art" is held by Kathleen James-Chakraborty. We look forward to seeing you there!

Join us next Monday for our Henriette Hertz Lecture, held by Kathleen James-Chakraborty: "Consuming Modernism: Erich Mendelsohn, House Beautiful, and the Museum of Modern Art" 📅 14 April 2025, 6 pm 📍 Via Gregoriana 22, Rome 🎟️ free admission, registration required 🔗 www.biblhertz.it/events/40573...

Workshop "Porosità della città: Porosità dell’immagine. Walter Benjamin e Napoli (1925-2025)". 📅 10-11 Aprile 2025 📍 Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22 🎟️ Ingresso gratuito, senza registrazione 🔗 www.biblhertz.it/walter-benja...

🌩🌊The perils of seafaring, as depicted in Paul Hoste, L’Art des Armées Navales (1697). The Max Planck Research Group Visualizing Science in Media Revolutions, led by @sietskefransen.bsky.social, examines how science is depicted in our rare book collection: 🔗 rarebooks.biblhertz.it/visualizing_...

#arthistory has many faces. Guest @bhmpi.bsky.social

📢Attention curators 📢 Applications are open for our 2026 Curatorial Research Stays! Museum-employed researchers who do not reside in Rome or the surrounding area are eligible to apply for stays of max. 3 months at the Hertziana. 🔗Full call: www.biblhertz.it/en/opportuni... ⏳ Deadline: May 31, 2025

📐📏 French mathematic Jean Du Breuil (1602–1670) explains how scale impacts our perception. The Max Planck Research Group Visualizing Science in Media Revolutions, led by @sietskefransen.bsky.social, examines how science is depicted in our rare book collection: rarebooks.biblhertz.it/visuali.../v...

📚 NEW PUBLICATION 📚 “Pablo Echaurren: Art For the Many“, edited by Martina Caruso, Jacopo Galimberti, Raffaella Perna (Studi della Bibliotheca Hertziana, vol. 19) 🔗 www.biblhertz.it/en/pub/studi 🛒 www.silvanaeditoriale.it/libro/978883...

📣 We're currently accepting applications for pre & postdoc fellowships & for a scientific assistant position within the Max Planck Research Group "Machine Visual Culture: Artificial Intelligence and the History of Seeing," led by Leonardo Impett. ⏳ April 14, 2025 🔗 www.biblhertz.it/3628206/2503...

📚NEW PUBLICATION📚 "The Mediality of Mapping. Transmedial Approaches to Space and Cartogagraphic Imagination", edited by Tommaso Morawski and Tanja Michalsky (Quaderni della Bibliotheca Hertziana, vol. 14) 🔗 www.biblhertz.it/en/pub/quade... 🛒 tinyurl.com/y5pjr3ey

The creation presented as an organ play by Athanasius Kircher 🎼🌍 More in the online exhibition of our rare books curated by the Max Planck Research Group “Visualizing Science in Media Revolutions”, in particular @sietskefransen.bsky.social and @ariellaminden.bsky.social. 🔗 rarebooks.biblhertz.it

The Spanish Steps deserted, no queues at the Colosseum, the Trevi Fountain in monumental silence. 5 years ago, Rome stood still during the #Covid19 lockdown in #Italy. A documentary photo exhibition looks back at this surreal moment in time: galerie.biblhertz.it/en/lockdown/ @bhmpi.bsky.social