Colloque : “Minority and Majority in Medici Tuscany”, Paris, Galerie Colbert, le 27 et le 28 novembre 2025
Organized by HICSA Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne – The Medici Archive Project
Conference co-organizers: Alessio Assonitis & Sefy Hendler
DAY ONE: Thursday 27 November
Salle Jullian
KEYNOTE LECTURE: 18:00
Kate Lowe (The Warburg Institute) : The Fashion for Black Schiavi and Schiave at the Medici Court
DAY TWO: Friday 28 November
Salle Vasari
OPENING REMARKS: 9:30 – 10:00
Alessio Assonitis (The Medici Archive Project)
Sefy Hendler (HICSA Université de Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne)
Session One: 10:00 – 12:00
RELIGIOUS AND POLITICAL MINORITIES IN TUSCANY
Chair: Fiammetta Campagnoli (Université de Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne)
Gwladys Le Cuff (Université de Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne – INHA) : Amadeists and the Visual Fortune of the Apocalypsis Nova in Florence: Minority Fratres de Familia, Between Heterodox Dissent and Medici Instrument
Alessio Assonitis (The Medici Archive Project) : The Proliferation of Religious Heterodoxy at the Court of Cosimo I: Printers, Preachers, and Humanists
Piergabriele Mancuso (The Medici Archive Project) :The Medici and the Jews: From the Ghetto of Florence to Global Livorno
Eliah Jaffe (ERC Project FemSMed – Tel Aviv University)
L’intégration d’une esclave dans la communauté juive de Livourne
Discussion
Lunch Break: 12:00 – 14:00
Session Two: 14:00 – 15:45
GENDER AND RACE
Chair: Angèle Tence (Université de Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne)
Benedetta Chizzolini (ERC Project FemSMed – Tel Aviv University) : Female Baptisms and Political Power: The Conversions of Enslaved Women in Medicean Tuscany
Brian Sandberg (Northern Illinois University) : “Sono stati pervertiti da un moro”: Morisco Communities and Ambiguous Identities in Grand Ducal Tuscany
Yasmine Segol (ERC Project FemSMed – Tel Aviv University) : From Florence to the French Court: Caterina de’ Medici’s Enslaved Female Servants
Discussion
Coffee Break: 15:45 – 16:00
Session Three: 16:00 – 17:45
ARTISTIC MINORITIES/MINORITIES AND THE ARTS
Chair: Antonella Fenech (CNRS – Centre André Chastel)
Rebecca Arnheim (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) : More than a Pretty Body: Florentine Garzoni and the Visibility of Working Youth in Renaissance Art
Sefy Hendler (HICSA Université de Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne) : When Pontormo’s Fresco “Went Up in Smoke”: The Fate of Art Outside Hegemonic Taste
Federico Giglio (The Medici Archive Project) : Vasari, the Lives and the Fuoriusciti
Discussion
KEYNOTE LECTURE: 18:00
Tamar Herzig (ERC Project FemSMed – Tel Aviv University) : Female Enslavement and Intercommunal Relations in Grand Ducal Tuscany
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Fiammetta Campagnoli (7 novembre 2025). Colloque : “Minority and Majority in Medici Tuscany”, Paris, Galerie Colbert, le 27 et le 28 novembre 2025. Collectif d'Historiens de l'Art de la Renaissance. Consulté le 17 décembre 2025 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/1545f



