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Confrontations: Leonardo, Michelangelo,
and the Sala del Maggior Consiglio


PROGRAM

Friday, April 1st
Terrace Room in Logan Hall


3:00 - 3:15
Michael Cole, University of Pennsylvania
Introduction


3:15-4:45
First Session
Moderated by Marcia Hall, Temple University

Carmen Bambach, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Leonardo and Michelangelo Drawn to Trouble: Their Drawings of ca. 1503-1506 and the Battle Cartoons

Maurizio Seracini, Editech - Centro Diagnostico dei Beni Culturali, Firenze
The Search for the Battle of Anghiari: A Progress Report


5:00-7:30
Rosenwald Gallery in Van Pelt Library

Conference Reception


Welcoming Remarks
Millicent Marcus, Center for Italian Studies
David Brownlee, Department of History of Art
Joseph Farrell, Dean in Humanities in the School of Arts and Sciences



Saturday, April 2nd
Terrace Room in Logan Hall


9:30-10:00
Coffee


10:00-11:30
Second Session
Moderated by Patricia Fortini Brown, Princeton University

David Summers, University of Virginia
The Battle of Cascina and the Invention of a Grand Manner in Painting

Alison Wright, University College London
Monumental Failure?: The Relief Paradigm in the Hall of the Great Council


11:30-11:45
Coffee


11:45 - 1:15
Third Session
Moderated by Patricia Fortini Brown, Princeton University

Kathleen Weil-Garris Brandt, New York University
Models and Methods: A Suggestion about Michelangelo's Battle of Cascina

Carlton Hughes, University of South Carolina
Looking over his Shoulder: Three Studies for the Battle of Cascina Cartoon


2:30-4:00
Fourth Session
Moderated by Carl Strehlke, Philadelphia Museum of Art

Alessandro Cecchi, Uffizi Galleries
The Iconographical Program of the 'Sala del Maggior Consiglio'

Paul Joannides, Cambridge University
Raphael's Response to the Battle-Pieces of Michelangelo and Leonardo


4:00-4:30
Coffee


4:30-6:00
Fifth Session
Moderated by Carl Strehlke, Philadelphia Museum of Art

Frank Fehrenbach, University of Basel
The Impetus of War, Physics and Art Theory in Leonardo's Battle of Anghiari

Leonard Barkan, Princeton University
From Pisan War to Paragone: Art in the Combat Zone