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• the POWER of ART, the POWER of FAME the EXTRAORDINARY PAID UCLA PRESORTED FIRST CLASS U.S. POSTAGE U.S. Advance registration for Friday at UCLA is requested. Please register online at cmrs.ucla.edu/event/sigismondo-pandolfo-malatesta/#regform. • No fee. Limited seating. Parking information is online at main.transportation.ucla.edu/campus-parking/visitors ThePOWER of ART, The POWER of FAME Advance registration for Saturday at The J. Paul Getty Museum is required. The To register, send an email to [email protected]. Parking is $15 per car EXTRAORDINARY RENAISSANCE COURT payable at the self-service pay stations. of This conference is made possible thanks to a generous gift from the Ahmanson Foundation. Support is also provided by the Armand Hammer Endowment for the SIGISMONDO PANDOLFO MALATESTA, UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Italian Cultural Institute in Los Angeles, and the Franklin D. Murphy Chair in LORD of RIMINI Italian Renaissance Studies at UCLA. • Images: Medal of Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta by Matteo de’ Pasti, 1446. Obverse:SIGISMONDUS PANDULFUS DE MALATESTIS S A conference organized by the RO ECLESIE C GENERALIS . Reverse: CASTELLUM SISMONDUM UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies and ARIMINENSE MCCCCXLVI. Courtesy of Ferruccio Farina. The J. Paul Getty Museum UCLA CENTER FOR MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE STUDIES AND RENAISSANCE MEDIEVAL UCLA FOR CENTER LOS ANGELES CA90095-1485 [email protected] | 310-825-1880 | cmrs.ucla.edu 10745 DICKSON PLAZA,951485 BOX January 26-27, 2018 The POWER of ART, The POWER of FAME: 11:15 Chiara Giovannini (Liceo Classico G. Cesare, Rimini) 11:15 Break The EXTRAORDINARY RENAISSANCE COURTof “‘As Wars Rage on’: Giovanni Mario Filelfo’s Elegiac Verses in Tribute to Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta” Session V • Lyle Massey (UC Irvine), Chair SIGISMONDO PANDOLFO MALATESTA, LORD of RIMINI 12:00 Lunch Break 11:30 Daniel M. Zolli (The Pennsylvania State University) “Agostino di Duccio’s Lapidary Imagination” lthough not as well-known as other prominent families such as the Session II • Sarah Cantor (UCLA), Chair 12:15 Ferruccio Farina (Centro Internazionale di Studi Francesca da Rimini) Medici, Visconti, or Borgia, the Malatesta of Rimini, especially during the “Crime Benchmarking. Pius II Piccolomini, Sigismondo Malatesta, leadershipA of Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta (1417-1468), occupy a central 2:00 Paolo Cherchi (University of Chicago) Francesco Sforza, Alfonso of Aragona, Federico da Montefeltro and position in the history of the Italian Renaissance. Gifted with great military “Roberto Valturio and His De re militari” Niccolò d’Este: Sin and Sinners in Comparison” skill and a profound sensibility for the arts, Sigismondo became the epitome of the “Renaissance man”. The great Swiss historian Jakob Burckhardt, in his 2:45 Bryan C. Keene (The J. Paul Getty Museum) 1:00 Lunch Break influential The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy, considered him a “whole “The Renaissance Mediterranean: Cardinal Bessarion, Italian Courts, and the Sultan” man,” the crowning figure among “the furtherers of humanism,” acondottiere Session VI • Kirstin Noreen (Loyola Marymount University), Chair equally capable in war and art, cruel and yet cultured; in other words, the perfect 3:30 Break example of the new man capable of changing the course of civilization and of 2:15 James Fishburne (The Getty Research Institute) ushering in the age of modernity. In a time of physical violence and artistic “Sacred and Profane: Matteo de’ Pasti’s Portrait Medals and the Session III • Jean-Claude Carron (UCLA), Chair refinement, Sigismondo could be considered the source of one of the highest Court of Sigismondo Malatesta” cultural achievements of the West. 3:45 Anthony D’Elia (Queen’s University, Canada) 3:00 Marilyn Aronberg Lavin (Professor, RET, Princeton, NJ) his conference, organized in association with the J. Paul Getty Museum “Sigismondo Malatesta as Athlete and Ancient Hero” “Sigismondo’s Surprising Duality: Images and Words” to commemorate the 600-year anniversary of the birth of Sigismondo, considersT his political and military skills, his relationship with the papacy — 4:30 Massimo Bulgarelli (IUAV University of Venice) 3:45 Break which culminated in Pope Pius II’s excommunication and condemnation to “Sigismondo and the Tempio Malatestiano. Meanings of an eternal damnation — and especially his patronage of the arts and of artists Architecture” Session VII • Laura Llewellyn (The J. Paul Getty Museum), Chair such as Leon Battista Alberti, Piero della Francesca, Vittore Pisano (Pisanello), Matteo de’ Pasti, Agostino di Duccio, Roberto Valturio, Basinio da Parma, and 5:15 Reception catered by Angelini Osteria. Chef Gino Angelini will be 4:00 Antonia Gatward Cevizli (Sotheby’s Institute of Art, London) Giusto de’ Conti, just to mention a few. present. “The ‘Terrible Turk’ and a ‘Citizen of Hell’: Mehmed II, Malatesta, and Matteo De’ Pasti” 7:00 Performance by Il Ruggiero (Emanuela Marcante and Daniele FRIDAY, JANUARY 26, 2018 • UCLA ROYCE HALL ROOM 314 Tonini): “The Music of the Planets: Sigismondo Malatesta 4:45 Ulrike Bauer-Eberhardt (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek) and His Temple” “Power of Art – The Military Message of an Illustrated Book by 9:30 Coffee & Pastries Roberto Valturio, Commissioned by Sigismondo Pandolfo SATURDAY, JANUARY 27, 2018 • THE J. PAUL GETTY MUSEUM Malatesta” 10:00 Opening Remarks 5:30 Reception: Presentation of the new volume by Ferruccio Farina, Massimo Ciavolella, Director, CMRS 10:00 Opening Remarks Sigismondo Malatesta, 1417-1468. Le imprese, il volto e la fama David Schaberg, Dean of Humanities Bryan C. Keene, The J. Paul Getty Museum di un principe del Rinascimento (Rimini: Maggioli Editore, 2017). Antonio Verde, Consul General of Italy in Los Angeles Andrea Gnassi, Mayor of Rimini Filippo Gasperi, Mayor of Gradara The author and publisher will be present. Session I • Andrea Moudarres (UCLA), Chair Session IV • Davide Gasparotto (The J. Paul Getty Museum), Chair 10:30 Monica Centanni (Università Iuav di Venezia) “Bellum Italicum. Ancient-Style Feasts and Triumphs in Honor of 10:30 Joanna Woods-Marsden (UCLA) Sigismondo Malatesta” “Sigismondo Malatesta: Portraiture and Politics”.
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