Graduate Program in Renaissance Art


Saint Jerome in his Studio,
Antonello da Messina

Graduate Program Intro

The Florence Symposium
In December of the Syracuse University in Florence fall semester, students of the Graduate Program in Renaissance Art present scholarly papers relating to a common topic selected by the students themselves. The symposia generally focus on a general theme or a specific monument or place.

Since 1987, the Florence Symposium has attracted members of the international scholarly community in Florence in addition to the SU Florence’s own academic community. The oral presentations allow students to develop their skills in public speaking and in the organization of visual materials.

Symposium Fall 2011
The Fall 2011 Graduate Symposium is entitled "Tall Tails: Representing Animals in Italian Renaissance Art." It will be held on Friday December 2,  3:00pm, at the Syracuse University in Florence Villa Rossa, Piazza Savonarola, 15.

The symposium is free and open to the public.

Past Symposium Titles

2010 Rooted in the Renaissance: Italian Gardens and their Legacy

2009 Renaissance High Chapel Decoration

2008 The Speaking Hand: Gesture in Italian Art

2007 Processions and Pageantry in Renaissance Italy

2006 Sacristies of Renaissance Florence

2005 Hidden Treasures of the Santissima Annunziata

2004 Alla Porta: Studies on the Renaissance Threshold

2003 Let the Games Begin... Ludic Pastimes in Italy, 1400-1800

2002 Dante: A Visual Legacy

2001 Illness, Healing and Death in Early Modern Italy

2000 The Arno: A Source of Art, Architecture and Ritual

1999 Made for Society: Essays on the Functions of Art

1998 Selected Papers on the Chiostro dello Scalzo

1997 Art, Patronage and Pagentry at Ognissanti

1996 Selected Papers on the Capponi Family, 15th to 17th centuries

1995 Dominican Contributions to the Art and Society of Renaissance Florence

1994 Out of the Shadow: Light on the Cathedral Complex of Florence

1993 Cardo Viarum: Florence as Crossroads of Artistic and Intellectual Discourse

1992 Pitti Palace

1991 Santa Croce

1990 Palazzo Vecchio

1989 Eleonora of Toledo

1988 The Chapel of the Medici Palace

1987 Problems in the Spanish Chapel

Past Graduate Symposium Papers