BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//jEvents 2.0 for Joomla//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Rome BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20240324T163000 RDATE:20240331T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:Europe/Rome CET END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20241027T020000 RDATE:20250330T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:Europe/Rome CET END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20251026T020000 RDATE:20260329T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:Europe/Rome CET END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20261025T020000 RDATE:20270328T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:Europe/Rome CET END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20271031T020000 RDATE:20280326T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:Europe/Rome CET END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20281029T020000 RDATE:20290325T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:Europe/Rome CET END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20291028T020000 RDATE:20300331T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:Europe/Rome CET END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20301027T020000 RDATE:20310330T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:Europe/Rome CET END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20311026T020000 RDATE:20320328T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:Europe/Rome CET END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20240331T030000 RDATE:20241027T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:Europe/Rome CEST END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250330T030000 RDATE:20251026T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:Europe/Rome CEST END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20260329T030000 RDATE:20261025T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:Europe/Rome CEST END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20270328T030000 RDATE:20271031T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:Europe/Rome CEST END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20280326T030000 RDATE:20281029T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:Europe/Rome CEST END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20290325T030000 RDATE:20291028T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:Europe/Rome CEST END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20300331T030000 RDATE:20301027T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:Europe/Rome CEST END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20310330T030000 RDATE:20311026T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:Europe/Rome CEST END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:fbf546fdb57ab0e80ab3f45846a97a0b CATEGORIES:Seminari CREATED:20250312T152126 SUMMARY:Artisans and Mother Nature in Stradano’s Nova Reperta (1580s) di Anca-Delia Moldovan (University of Warwick) DESCRIPTION:“SISS meets early careers”A seminar series organized by the Italian Society for the History of Science\n2nd series 2025\n4.30pm CET25th March 2025Dr A nca-Delia Moldovan (University of Warwick)\nTitle: Artisans and Mother Natu re in Stradano’s Nova Reperta (1580s)\nAbstract: In the late 1580s, the Flo rentine nobleman Luigi Alamanni commissioned the Flemish artist Jan van der Straet, otherwise known as Giovanni Stradano, to design the Nova Reperta, a series of nineteenth prints showcasing post-classical inventions and disc overies. In this talk, I will examine what the Nova Reperta engravings can tell one about the major sixteenth-century changes that governed the relati onship between nature and human art. I will do so through the lens of the w orkshop, which Stradano foregrounded in many of his prints. Workshops are m ale-dominated spaces in which craftsmen, as alchemists, refine and bring na ture to completion to the benefit of humanity: the wilderness is turned int o cultivated lands; olives in oi; silkworms in silk; and plants in medicine . The engravings display the superiority of modern Europeans both over nati ve Americans and over the ancients. It was in the post-classical Florentine and Netherlandish workshops that technologies, such as the mechanical cloc k, the magnet, the compass, and the astrolabe, necessary to the navigation of great distances, were developed, in the collaboration between artisans a nd between artisans and the learned. Stradano personified the continent Ame rica as a native Indian woman willingly surrendering herself to the rule of art, technology, and catholic religion brought to its shores by the Floren tine Vespucci. In doing so, Stradano depicted men imposing the order of art upon the unruly creative forces of mother nature.\nBio: Anca-Delia Moldova n is a Marie Sklodowska Curie Eutopia-SIF COFUND Fellow at the University o f Warwick. She gained a PhD in History of Art from the University of Warwic k (2020) having previously studied at the Universities of Florence and Buch arest. She held fellowships at I Tatti, The Harvard Center for Italian Rena issance Studies in Florence; Warburg Institute; Newberry Library; and Herzo g August Bibliothek. Her work investigates calendrical and agricultural rep resentations at the intersection of art, science, intellectual, and environ mental histories in Early Modern Italy. Her current project examines the en vironmental, artistic, and intellectual history of the olive tree in the Me dici Grand Duchy of Tuscany. Moldovan published articles in the Rivista di Storia della Miniatura; Renaissance and Reformation; and Renaissance Quarte rly. Her forthcoming book Illustrating the Year: The Iconography of the Cal endar and Its Cultural Impact in Early Modern Northern Italy was awarded a Weiss-Brown Publication Subvention Award.\n\n X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
“SISS meets early careers”
A seminar series organized by the Italian Society fo r the History of Science
2nd series 2025
4.30pm CET
25th March 2025

Dr Anca-Delia Moldovan (Un iversity of Warwick)

Title: Artisans and Mother Nature in Stradano’s Nova Reperta (1580s)

Abstract: In the late 1580s, the Florentine nobl eman Luigi Alamanni commissioned the Flemish artist Jan van der Straet, oth erwise known as Giovanni Stradano, to design the Nova Reperta, a series of nineteenth prints showcasing post-classical inventions and discoveries. In this talk, I will examine what the Nova Reperta engravings can tell one abo ut the major sixteenth-century changes that governed the relationship betwe en nature and human art. I will do so through the lens of the workshop, whi ch Stradano foregrounded in many of his prints. Workshops are male-dominate d spaces in which craftsmen, as alchemists, refine and bring nature to comp letion to the benefit of humanity: the wilderness is turned into cultivated lands; olives in oi; silkworms in silk; and plants in medicine. The engrav ings display the superiority of modern Europeans both over native Americans and over the ancients. It was in the post-classical Florentine and Netherl andish workshops that technologies, such as the mechanical clock, the magne t, the compass, and the astrolabe, necessary to the navigation of great dis tances, were developed, in the collaboration between artisans and between a rtisans and the learned. Stradano personified the continent America as a na tive Indian woman willingly surrendering herself to the rule of art, techno logy, and catholic religion brought to its shores by the Florentine Vespucc i. In doing so, Stradano depicted men imposing the order of art upon the un ruly creative forces of mother nature.

Bio: Anca-Delia Moldovan is a Marie Sklodowska Curie Eutopia-SIF COFUND Fellow at the University of Warwi ck. She gained a PhD in History of Art from the University of Warwick (2020 ) having previously studied at the Universities of Florence and Bucharest. She held fellowships at I Tatti, The Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studies in Florence; Warburg Institute; Newberry Library; and Herzog Augus t Bibliothek. Her work investigates calendrical and agricultural representa tions at the intersection of art, science, intellectual, and environmental histories in Early Modern Italy. Her current project examines the environme ntal, artistic, and intellectual history of the olive tree in the Medici Gr and Duchy of Tuscany. Moldovan published articles in the Rivista di Storia della Miniatura; Renaissance and Reformation; and Renaissance Quarterly. He r forthcoming book Illustrating the Year: The Iconography of the Calendar a nd Its Cultural Impact in Early Modern Northern Italy was awarded a Weiss-B rown Publication Subvention Award.

SISS Early Career Delia

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