Immortal Egypt: The Afterlife of Egypt in Early Modern Visual Arts
London, Warburg Institute, 2 – 3 March 2023
2 March
14.00 (London Time) Welcome Bill Sherman, Warburg Institute
14.15 Introduction Luisa Capodieci and Laurent Bricault
Secret Rites
14.30 – 15.00 Korshi Dosoo, Julius-Maximilians-Universität, Würzburg
Aesthetics and Power: Egyptian Image-Magic in the Roman Empire
15.00 – 15.30 Charles Burnett, Warburg Institute, London
The Wisdom of the Egyptians in Astrological, Medical and Magical Works
15.30 – 16.00 Discussion and coffee break
Sacred Writing
16.00 – 16.30 Andreas Filip Winkler, Freie Universität, Berlin
The Egyptian Heavenly Writing: Genesis of the Horoscope
16.30 – 17.00 Jean Winand, Université de Liège
A World of Ideas without Words: Renaissance Hieroglyphs between Philosophy and Entertainment
17.00 – 17.30 Discussion
18.00 Keynote Florian Ebeling, LMU München
Egypt as the Epitome of Symbolic Semiosis: Freemasonry between Enlightenment and Romanticism
3 March
The Making of Cleopatra
9.30 – 10.00 Bernard Legras, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
Cléopâtre, un génie politique ?
10.00 – 10.30 Luisa Capodieci, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
The Queen’s “Moral Sin”: An Iconographical Italian Victory?
10.30 – 11.00 Discussion and coffee break
Mysterious Lands
11.00 – 11.30 Ian Rutherford, University of Reading
Early Modern Visitors to Egypt and their Use of Classical Sources?
11.30 – 12.00 Anne Haslund Hansen, The National Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen
F.L. Norden’s Voyage d’Égypte et de Nubie, 1755: Image Production and Circulation
12.00 – 12.30 Discussion and concluding remarks
Roma, Bibliotheca Hertziana, 13 – 14 April 2023
13 April
15.00 Welcome Tristan Weddigen, Bibliotheca Hertziana
15.15 Introduction Luisa Capodieci and Laurent Bricault
Hidden Gods
15.30– 16.00 Giuseppina Capriotti, Istituto di Studi sulle Civiltà Italiche e del Mediterraneo Antico, Roma
Inventio Aegypti: Transmission, Knowledge and Interpretation
16.00 – 16.30 Anne Rolet, Université de Rennes 2
The Veil of Symbol or the Hieroglyphic Illusion: Egyptian Gods and Writing and their Uses in Sixteenth-Century Emblematic Collections
16.30 – 17.00 Discussion and coffee break
Isis of a thousand names
17.00 – 17.30 Laurent Bricault, Université de Toulouse Jean Jaurès Isis myriomorphos
17.30 – 18.00 Stéphane Rolet, Université Paris 8 Vincennes Saint-Denis
Was Pierio Valeriano an Egyptologist? Considerations on the 39th Book about Isis in the Hieroglyphica (1556)
18.00 – 18.30 Discussion
19.00 Keynote François de Callataÿ, Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique, Bruxelles
Egypt in medals before Champollion. Obelisks, sphinxes and pyramids: between antiquarianism and freemasonry
14 April
Petrified Sunbeams
9.30 – 10.00 Francesco Tiradritti, Università Kore, Enna
Life and Survival of Egyptian Obelisks through Centuries and Countries
10.00 – 10.30 Jean Winand, Université de Liège
Roman Obelisks ad maiorem Dei gloriam: Athanasius Kircher and Egyptian Monuments as the membra disjecta of the prisca theologia
10.30 – 11.00 Discussion and coffee break
Divine Animality
11.00– 11.30 Thomas Galoppin, Université de Toulouse Jean Jaurès
A Greco-Egyptian Bestiary in Pictures: Gods and Landscapes
11.30 – 12.00 Elisa Boeri, Politecnico di Milano
Another Rome: The Enchanted Bestiary of Giovanni Battista Piranesi
12.00 – 12.30 Discussion and concluding remarks
Paris, Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art, 1 – 2 June 2023
1 June
14.00 Accueil des participants / Welcome Pierre Wat, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne/HiCSA
14.15 Introduction Luisa Capodieci et Laurent Bricault
Le doigt sur la bouche / The Finger on the Mouth
14.30 – 15.00 Laurent Bricault, Université de Toulouse Jean Jaurès
Harpocrate, l'enfant au silence
15.00 – 15.30 Etienne Jollet, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
Le silence des Lumières. Harpocrate dans les arts visuels en France au XVIIIe siècle
15.30 – 16.00 Discussion et pause
Anamorphoses d’un amant imperial / Anamorphosis of an Imperial Lover
16.00 – 16.30 Caroline Vout, Cambridge University
Antinous in antiquity: an image between Egypt, Greece and Rome
16.30 – 17.00 Luisa Capodieci, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
« Ornements sans nom ». La Renaissance extravagante du Ciocio-Osirantinoos
17.00 – 17.30 Discussion
18.00 Keynote Miguel John Versluys, Universiteit Leiden
Egypt as provocation
2 June
L’Égypte chez soi / Owning Egypt
10.00 – 10.30 Richard Veymiers, Musée royal de Mariemont / Université de Liège
Les dieux-serpents égyptiens. Du sens et de l’usage d’une série de petites stèles en pierre
10.30 – 11.00 Sidney Aufrère, CNRS
La reviviscence du monde divin égyptien dans l’Europe des antiquaires. Du Cabinet de Peiresc à la Description de l’Égypte
11.00 – 11.30 Discussion et pause
Sphinx vagabonds / Wandering Sphinxes
11.30 – 12.00 Damien Agut-Labordère, CNRS
De Saïs à Paris, en passant par Rome, itinéraires des sphinx saïto-perses
12.00 – 12.30 Jean-Marcel Humbert, Musées de France
Le sphinx égyptien à Paris à la fin du XVIIIe siècle et au début du XIXe
12.30 – 13.00 Discussion et conclusion
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