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Ritual, power and representation in early modern Venice

Reading Group with Alessandro Metlica and Giorgio Tagliaferro

Feb 6, 11.00-1.00 (FAB 3.30)

All very welcome, but please let Michael Hatt know in advance if you would like to participate: m.hatt@warwick.ac.uk 

The texts to be discussed are:

Alessandro Metlica, ' Reshaping the Republican Ritual: The Entry of the Procurators of St Mark in Early Modern Venice', in Joris Oddens, Mart Rutjes, and Arthur Weststeijn (eds.), Discourses of Decline: Essay on Republicanism in Honor of Wyger R.E. Velema(Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2022), 168-181

Giorgio Tagliaferro, ‘The Meeting of Sebastiano Ziani and Alexander III in the Great Council Hall: Staging, Viewing, and Understanding the Body Politic in Late Sixteenth-Century Venice’, in Giovanni Florio and Alessandro Metlica (eds.), Contending Representations II: Entangled Republican Spaces in Early Modern Venice (Turnhout: Brepols, 2024), 44-65  

Political Ideas and Cultural Production: Visualising, Narrating, and Performing Politics in the Early Modern World

PhD Workshop

Feb 6, 3.00 – 5.00 (FAB 3.29)

This is an informal workshop for PhD students from across the Faculty of Arts. The central questions to be addressed will be: how can a certain idea of the state or other political body be visualised, narrated or staged? What social, diegetic, or stylistic devices are deployed to represent that idea across different media?

We shall be delighted to hear from any PhD student wishing to give a brief presentation (c.10-15 minutes) related to the workshop theme. This is not intended as a symposium of polished papers, but a more open discussion, and so we would like presentations that focus on a particular research problem with which someone is grappling, or that discuss a particular object or case study or other source material.

Dr Metlica’s visit has been made possible by generous funding from the Humanities Research Centre.

Professor Michael Hatt

Director of Graduate Studies

Department of History of Art