La Sistina di Michelangelo. Un'icona multimediale 24 September 2025 - 7 January 2026 Exhibition at Casa Buonarroti Firenze with loans from our Photothek! 📷 Group of saints to the left of Christ, Last Judgement, Sistine Chapel, photographic print on paper, ca. 1890, Fotografia Alinari n. 12921

Die Macht des Makellosen: Von der Renaissance bis zur KI-Ära, Hana Gründler @khiflorenz.bsky.social erforscht, wie #Schönheitsideale gesellschaftliche Normen und Vorurteile widerspiegeln.🪞 mpg.de/25381599/diema…#Schönheiti#Kunsts#Politikik

📢CALL FOR PAPERS 📢 Urban Histories in Motion. Cartographic, Artistic, and Historiographical Representations of the City within Early Modern Intellectual Networks (Session at the EAUH 2026 Conference) Barcelona, 2-5 September 2026 🚨Deadline: 22 October 2025 ➡️ t1p.de/8n1y8

Join us on Sunday in Berlin for "Seed Sounds", a radio performance as part of the annual celebration “Ein Tag im Grünen“ at the Kulturforum, Berlin. Organized by the 4A_Lab. ➡️ t1p.de/m7p6x

REMINDER - TOMORROW Urban Images and Their Unpredictable Narratives 1450-1950: Stakeholders, Authorities, and ‘the Other’ ➡️ t1p.de/uk26m

REMINDER - TOMORROW Asian Art in Planetary Perspective ➡️ t1p.de/3fphz

📢CALL FOR APPLICATIONS 📢 Max Planck Research Group Leader (m/f/d) To support emerging scholars early in their career path, the MPG invites all outstanding scientists with a doctorate working in any field of research pursued in the organization to apply. Deadline: 14 October 2025 ➡️ t1p.de/8n1y8

📅 14 September, 3.00pm 📍 Berlin Seed Sounds A radio performance as part of the annual celebration “Ein Tag im Grünen“ at the Kulturforum, Berlin. Organized by the 4A_Lab, a collaborative research and fellowship program between the KHI and the Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz. ➡️ t1p.de/m7p6x

Join us on Monday in Florence and online for the transdisciplinary study day "Art and Political Emotions in the 20th and 21st Century" of the Research Group “Ethico-Aesthetics of the Visual”. ➡️ t1p.de/5xff2

📅 11 September 📍 Palermo Urban Images and Their Unpredictable Narratives 1450-1950: Stakeholders, Authorities, and ‘the Other’ Session at the 12th AISU Congress 2025, organized by Davide Ferri (KHI Florence) and Linda Stagni (ETH Zurich). ➡️ t1p.de/uk26m

📅 10 September 📍 Lisbon Panel organized by Feng Schöneweiß (4A_Lab, KHI Florenz) and De-nin Lee (Emerson College) at the European Association for Asian Art and Archaeology (EAAA) fourth biennial conference, University of Lisbon, Portugal. ➡️ t1p.de/3fphz

📅 08 September, 2.00pm 📍 Florence & Online "Art and Political Emotions in the 20th and 21st Century" Transdisciplinary Study Day of the Research Group “Ethico-Aesthetics of the Visual” with Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen, Vasyl Cherepanyn, Hana Gründler, Luiza Nader, Francesca Raimondi. ➡️ t1p.de/5xff2

📚 More books from the Martin Salter Collection are available now on the open shelves of the KHI Photography Research Library, a special collection of books focused on the theory and history of photography. ➡️ t1p.de/bsdnr 📷 KHI Florenz, Photography Research Library. #martinsalterstudio #photobooks

Die @humboldt-foundation.de hat Professorin Anna-Maria Meister @tweetissima.bsky.social, Institut für Entwerfen, Kunst und Theorie des #KITKarlsruhe, zum Scout im Henriette Herz-Scouting-Programm ernannt. 📸 Alona Antoniadis

📢CALL FOR PAPERS 📢 🚨Deadline approaching: 31 July 2025 Art History, Epistemic Injustice and Ideological Violence Transdisciplinary Workshop at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut (17 – 18 October 2025) ➡️ www.khi.fi.it/en/aktuelles...

Join us on tomorrow in Florence and online for a lecture by Jürgen Müller on "Who is Matthew? A New Interpretation of Caravaggio’s Calling of St. Matthew in the Contarelli Chapel". ➡️ t1p.de/gnvxe

📅 21-25 July 📍 Sucre, Bolivia Conference organized by Lucía Querejazu Escobari (Max Planck Partner Group "Empires, Environments, Objects") and Francisco Mamani (Instituto Francés de Estudios Andinos, Chile) at the XII Congreso de la Asociación de Estudios Bolivianos in Sucre. ➡️ t1p.de/t0cz4

📅 22 July, 3.00pm 📍 Florence & Online Lecture by Jürgen Müller on "Who is Matthew? A New Interpretation of Caravaggio’s Calling of St. Matthew in the Contarelli Chapel". ➡️ t1p.de/gnvxe 📷 Caravaggio, Calling of St. Matthew, 1599-1600, Rom, San Luigi dei Francesi, Cappella Contarelli

Join us on tomorrow online for a lecture by Sugata Ray on "Das Paradies: The Anthropocene Extinction in the Early Modern World". ➡️ t1p.de/p1ugy

Join us on tomorrow in Florence and online for a lecture by Ivan Foletti on "Notre-Dame’s Myths. Gothic Architecture, Imperialism, and National Identity" ➡️https://t1p.de/h6bmt

📝Call for Papers 📝 Art History, Epistemic Injustice and Ideological Violence Transdisciplinary Workshop at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut 17 – 18 October 2025 Deadline: 31st July 2025 ➡️ www.khi.fi.it/en/aktuelles...

📅 17 July, 5.00pm 📍 Online Lecture by Sugata Ray, "Das Paradies: The Anthropocene Extinction in the Early Modern World" ➡️ t1p.de/p1ugy

📅 15 July, 3.00pm 📍 Florence & online Lecture by Ivan Foletti on "Notre-Dame’s Myths. Gothic architecture, imperialism, and national identity". This lecture reconsiders Notre-Dame as a dynamic object of cultural memory and political meaning undergoing constant change. ➡️ t1p.de/h6bmt

Join us tomorrow in Florence for "The Making Of: Recasting Organs and Rearranging Waste with Teodóra Róka", organized by Neilabh Sinha and the Lise Meitner Group “Coded Objects”. More information and registration for the workshop ➡️ t1p.de/elis6

Join us on Monday in Florence and online for the next conversation in the series "It's a Match!" Paolo Scrivano and Neilabh Sinha on Distant Objects Organized by Rebecca Carrai and the Lise Meitner Group “Coded Objects”. ➡️ t1p.de/1qokz

📚 Check out the Library's current “In Focus” project! “From Dante to Picasso. 12 works from the Biblioteca Serlupiana” features a selection of volumes from the collection from the 15th – 20th centuries. ➡️ t1p.de/hcef0 Photos by Bärbel Reinhard.

📅 8 July, 11.00am 📍 Florence & Prato The Making Of: Recasting Organs and Rearranging Waste with Teodóra Róka Organized by Neilabh Sinha and the Lise Meitner Group “Coded Objects”. More information and registration for the workshop ➡️ t1p.de/elis6

📅 7 July, 11.00am 📍 Florence & online It’s a Match! Paolo Scrivano and Neilabh Sinha on Distant Objects Organized by Rebecca Carrai and the Lise Meitner Group “Coded Objects”. ➡️ t1p.de/1qokz

Join us on Monday in Florence and online for a lecture by Rosinka Chaudhuri on "Aesthetic Education in Schiller and Tagore". Organized by Hannah Baader and Gerhard Wolf. ➡️ t1p.de/ps4q9

📢CALL FOR PAPERS 📢 🚨Deadline approaching: 1 July 2025 ➡️ www.khi.fi.it/.../call-for...

📅 30 June, 4.00pm 📍 Florence & online Lecture by Rosinka Chaudhuri on "Aesthetic Education in Schiller and Tagore". In this lecture Rosinka Chaudhuri shows how Tagore put into practice an aesthetic education that was a fundamental reflection of his way of reading. ➡️ t1p.de/ps4q9

📢CALL FOR APPLICATIONS 📢 🚨Deadline approaching: 30 June 2025 Studienkurs "Friuli-Venezia Giulia: Sites, Environments, Itineraries in a Post-Catastrophic Perspective" (20–28 September 2025) Organized by Clara Forcht, Lunarita Sterpetti and Gerhard Wolf www.khi.fi.it/en/aktuelles...

Join us tomorrow and on Friday in Florence and online for the transdisciplinary workshop "Trading Zones: Art and Philosophy in Eastern Europe since 1945". Organized by Hana Gründler and Sven Spieker. ➡️ t1p.de/6s6a4

📅26 - 27 June 📍 Florence & Online Workshop "Trading Zones: Art and Philosophy in Eastern Europe since 1945", org. by Hana Gründler and Sven Spieker (collab. Research Group Ethico-Aesthetics of the Visual/Graduate Center for Literary Research, Univ. of California Santa Barbara) ➡️ t1p.de/6s6a4

The latest issue of the Mitteilungen is out now! t1p.de/b2gvs

Join us tomorrow in Berlin and online for a lecture by Beatrice Trînca on "Text Gardens: Mediological Perspectives on the Late Medieval Book of Nature". Organized by the 4A_Lab. ➡️ t1p.de/52j8y

Join us tomorrow in Florence and online for a lecture by Lucia Raggetti on "Street Science and Affordable Art: the Knowledge of Nature and its Properties in the Arabo-Islamic Mediaeval Tradition". Organized by the Department Wolf. ➡️ t1p.de/6xron

Check out the KHI's new online exhibition! Photography * Research * Library presents the KHI's special collection of books devoted to the theory and history of photography. ➡️ expo.khi.fi.it 📷 KHI – Max-Planck-Institut, © Bärbel Reinhard, 2024. #photography #library #khiflorenz #fotobibliothek

Join us tomorrow in Florence and online for a lecture by Çiğdem Kafescioğlu on "Hagia Sophia to Theotokos Mouchliotissa: structures and narratives of memory and erasure in early modern Istanbul". Organized by the Department Wolf. ➡️ t1p.de/k7k1n

📅 18 June, 3.00pm 📍 Berlin & online Lecture by Beatrice Trînca on "Text Gardens: Mediological Perspectives on the Late Medieval Book of Nature", organized by the 4A_Lab. ➡️ t1p.de/52j8y

📅 18 June, 11.00am 📍 Florence & online Lecture by Lucia Raggetti on "Street Science and Affordable Art: the Knowledge of Nature and its Properties in the Arabo-Islamic Mediaeval Tradition", organized by the Department Wolf. ➡️ t1p.de/6xron

📅 17 June, 3.00pm 📍 Florence & online Lecture by Çiğdem Kafescioğlu on "Hagia Sophia to Theotokos Mouchliotissa: structures and narratives of memory and erasure in early modern Istanbul", organized by the Department Wolf. ➡️ t1p.de/k7k1n

Join us tomorrow in Berlin and online for a lecture by Juliane Noth on "Flowers and Plant Knowledge in Chinese Painting". ➡️ t1p.de/le434

🙌 La donazione straordinaria della Biblioteca Serlupiana al KHI è stata celebrata il 3 giugno 2025 nel Salone dei Cinquecento di Palazzo Vecchio con la Sindaca Sara Funaro e il Presidente della MPG Patrick Cramer! Alcuni volumi sono esposti al KHI fino al 17 giugno: t1p.de/nf5q4 @maxplanck.de

📢CALL FOR APPLICATIONS 📢 Studienkurs "Friuli-Venezia Giulia: Sites, Environments, Itineraries in a Post-Catastrophic Perspective" (20–28 September 2025) Organized by Clara Forcht, Lunarita Sterpetti and Gerhard Wolf 🚨Deadline for applications: 30 June 2025 www.khi.fi.it/en/aktuelles...

📅 11 June, 3.00pm 📍 Berlin & online Lecture by Juliane Noth on "Flowers and Plant Knowledge in Chinese Painting". Organized by the 4A_Lab. ➡️ t1p.de/le434

📅 10 June, 5.00pm 📍 Online only It’s a Match! Orit Halpern, Iris Long and Yandong Li on Environmental Objects Organized by Yandong Li and the Lise Meitner Group “Coded Objects”. ➡️ t1p.de/11u70

*Join us tomorrow in Florence and online for the next conversation in the series 'It's a Match!'* 📅 30 May, 2.00pm 📍 Florence & online It’s a Match! Cat Rossi and Alessandro Gerosa on (Post)Craft Organized by Rebecca Carrai and the Lise Meitner Group “Coded Objects” ➡️ t1p.de/7p5sc

Deadline approaching!

Deadline approaching!