Conference Program: The Theatines and Architecture

Posted on 16 March 2022 by Susan Klaiber

The final program for the conference “Circa vestimenta”: The Theatines and Architecture (Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries) is now available. The conference will be held at Sant’Andrea della Valle in Rome from 22-23 March 2022. I greatly appreciate the hospitality of the Theatines at the order’s Generalate for their generous support, and the hard work that Gaia Nuccio and Marco Capponi devoted to coordinating the event.

Click here for the conference description.

I am looking forward to moderating one of the panels, and acting as discussant for another.

Do note the links for remote access to the conference via Zoom or YouTube below – no registration is necessary.

“Circa vestimenta”: The Theatines and Architecture (Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries)

Tuesday, March 22, 2022
Opening (9:00 a.m.)
Greetings from the organisers and the Father General of the Clerics Regular Theatines

Keynote (9:30 a.m.)
Joseph Connors (Harvard University, emeritus)
Sant’Andrea della Valle tra architetti, mecenati e Teatini

Session 1 (10:20 a.m. – 13:30 p.m.)
La politica di espansione dell’ordine e le strategie insediative in rapporto al contesto urbano

Moderatore: Francesco Repishti (Politecnico di Milano)
Discussant: Fulvio Lenzo (Università Iuav di Venezia)

10:20 a.m.
Lo sviluppo degli insediamenti teatini a Napoli negli scritti di padre G.B. Del Tufo (1609-1616)
Daniela del Pesco

10:45 a.m.
Una cittadella di donne. Strategie di espansione nella capitale del Regno di Napoli tra Cinque e Seicento
Vittoria Fiorelli

11:10 a.m.
Coffee break

11:30 a.m.
L’antico complesso conventuale di San Cayetano a Barcellona: vicende storiche e architettoniche
Claudio Mazzanti

11:55 a.m.
«Destinati ad abitare il più nobile, il più frequentato luogo di Bologna»: i Teatini e la chiesa di San Bartolomeo di Porta Ravegnana tra l’arduo insediamento e la ricostruzione mancata (1608)
Maria Felicia Nicoletti

12:20 p.m.
Sant’Andrea Avellino, seconda casa dei Padri Teatini a Messina (1727-1908)
Francesca Passalacqua

12:45 p.m.
La chiesa di San Gaetano e i Teatini a Brescia
Alessandro Brodini

13:10 p.m.
Debate

13:30 p.m.
Lunch break

Round Table (14:30 p. m. – 15:45 p. m.)
Ambiti di ricerca nelle fonti teatine

14:30 p.m.
I fondi dell’Archivio Generalizio dei Teatini di Sant’Andrea della Valle
P. J. Roberto Orqueida C.R.

14:50 p.m.
La travagliata storia del fondo archivistico di San Paolo Maggiore a Napoli: tra sopravvivenza e soppressione
P. Aleksander S. Iwaszczonek C.R.

15:10 p.m.
La rivista «Regnum Dei. Collectanea Theatina»
Mariana Méndez-Gallardo, P. Marcelo R. Zubia, C.R. P. Diego Doldan C.R.

15:30 p.m.
Debate

Session 2 (15:45 p.m. – 17:45 p.m.)
Culto, spiritualità e spazio sacro teatino

Moderatore: Susan Klaiber (independent)
Discussant: Francesco Repishti (Politecnico di Milano)

15:45 p.m.
Identità architettoniche a confronto. Ordini di chierici regolari tra Cinque e Seicento.
Jörg Stabenow

16:10 p.m.
Coffee break

16:40 p.m.
Spiritualità teatina e spazio liturgico: cibori e altari maggiori nelle chiese dell’ordine
Dalma Frascarelli

17:05 p.m.
Un disegno per l’altare di Sant’Andrea della Valle: unità e separazione dello spazio liturgico teatino.
Emanuele Gambuti

17:30 p.m.
Debate

17:45 p.m.
Conclusion of the first day

Wednesday, March 23, 2022
Session 3 (9:00 a.m. – 11:25 a.m.)
Oltre il centro. Sant’Andrea della Valle e la circolazione di modelli architettonici in ambito teatino

Moderatore: Beatriz Blasco Esquivias (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
Discussant: Augusto Roca De Amicis (Università La Sapienza di Roma)

9:00 a.m.
La presenza dei Teatini a Lisbona: Casa da Divina Providência, “di nobile architettura, e di tale grandezza che se avesse raggiunto la sua ultima perfezione sarebbe senza dubbio una delle più imponenti che avrebbe avuto questa Corte”
Teresa de Campos Coelho

9:30 a.m.
An Icon of the “eternal Rome” at the “Rome of the East”: the Theatine Church of the Divine Providence and Convent of Saint Cajetan in Goa.
Joaquim Rodrigues dos Santos

9:55 a.m.
L’influenza storico-architettonica dell’ordine dei chierici regolari teatini in Spagna
Rossana Ravesi

10:20 a.m.
La chiesa dei Teatini di Monaco di Baviera
Fabian P. Huber

10:45 a.m.
Da Sant’Andrea della Valle a Sant’Irene: una facciata romana a Lecce
Antonio Russo

11:10 a.m.
Debate

11:25 a.m.
Coffee break

Session 4 (11:45 a.m. – 13:45 p.m.)
La committenza artistica e architettonica teatina tra tradizione e sperimentazione

Moderatore: Fulvio Lenzo (Università Iuav di Venezia)
Discussant: Beatriz Blasco Esquivias (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)

11:45 a.m.
Matronage e Devozione. Presenze femminili nei cantieri teatini tra XVI e XVII secolo.
Consuelo Lollobrigida

12:15 p.m.
La cupola demolita di San Nicolò da Tolentino a Venezia e le aspirazioni architettoniche dei teatini tra Cinque e Seicento
Marco Capponi

12:40 p.m.
Il vescovo Carlo Labia e il Duomo di Rovigo (1696-1730): committenza e modelli teatini per la nuova cattedrale
Riccardo Segradin

13:05 p.m.
La cupola della chiesa di San Giuseppe dei Teatini di Palermo
Girolamo A. G. Guadagna

13:30 p.m.
Debate

13:45 p.m.
Lunch Break

Session 5 (14:45 p.m. – 16:45 p.m.)
Fratelli e padri teatini soprastanti e architetti

Moderatore: Edoardo Piccoli (Politecnico di Torino)
Discussant: Susan Klaiber (independent)

14:45 p.m.
Guarino Guarini e i modelli romani: un rapporto da riconsiderare
Stefano Piazza

15:15 p.m.
Valerio Poggi, the Barberini & the Anonymity of Architecture
Anatole Upart

15:40 p.m.
Il progetto di Guarino Guarini per i campanili di Sainte-Anne-la-Royale
Gaia Nuccio

16:05 p.m.
Le rappresentazioni del convento dei Padri Teatini a Messina
Gabriele Vassallo

16:30 p.m.
Debate

16:45 p.m.
Concluding debate on the work of the conference

17:15 p.m.
Conclusion

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Conference Organisers and Committees

Scientific Committee
Beatriz Blasco Esquivias (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
Richard Bösel (Universität Wien)
Susan Klaiber (independent)
Fulvio Lenzo (Università Iuav di Venezia)
Carmine Mazza, C.R.
Marco Rosario Nobile (Università di Palermo)
Edoardo Piccoli (Politecnico di Torino)
Francesco Repishti (Politecnico di Milano)
Augusto Roca De Amicis (Università La Sapienza, Roma)

Conference Organisers / Editorial Committee
Marco Capponi (Università Iuav di Venezia), Gaia Nuccio (Università di Palermo)

Organising Committee
Marco Capponi (Università Iuav di Venezia), Gaia Nuccio (Università di Palermo), Mariana Méndez Gallardo (Universidad Iberoamericana Ciudad de México), Padre Marcelo R. Zubia, C.R., Padre Diego Doldan, C.R.

NOTE:
This is a HYBRID EVENT. It will take place both in person at Sant’Andrea della Valle, Rome, and online on Zoom Platform at:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89797109208?pwd=bjNSN0d4TEliM2dtQlVoUnVJb2N1UT09

ID meeting: 897 9710 9208
Passcode: 698940

Streaming on: https://youtube.com/c/Teatinos

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us via email: convegno.architetturateatina@gmail.com

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Downloads & Links

• Conference program

• Conference poster in English or Italian.

• Conference video trailer

Deadline Extended: CFP The Theatines and Architecture

Posted on 20 December 2021 by Susan Klaiber

New deadline 7 January 2022

Due to several requests, the organizers of the conference “Circa vestimenta”: The Theatines and Architecture (Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries). International Conference on the Architectural History of the Order of Clerics Regular Theatines (Rome, 22-23 March 2022) have decided to extend the deadline for abstract submission to 7 January 2022.

With these extra weeks available until the deadline, please consider submitting a proposal on any topic involving the Theatine order and architecture: Theatine churches and houses, Theatine architects working on projects anywhere (even for other patrons), architectural books in Theatine libraries or architecture in books by Theatine authors, Theatine festivals and ephemeral architecture, or any other topics exploring the order’s relationship to the built environment.

Learn more about the upcoming conference here, or download the Call for Papers (updated with the new timeline) in English, Italian, or Spanish below.

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Downloads

“Circa vestimenta”: The Theatines and Architecture, CFP English

“Circa vestimenta”: i Teatini e l’architettura, CFP italiano

“Circa vestimenta”: los Teatinos y la arquitectura, CFP español

Call for Papers: The Theatines and Architecture

Posted on 9 November 2021 by Susan Klaiber

UPDATE: Submission deadline 7 January 2022

I am excited to share the call for papers for the upcoming conference “Circa vestimenta”: The Theatines and Architecture (Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries). International Conference on the Architectural History of the Order of Clerics Regular Theatines (Rome, 22-23 March 2022). We seek a broad range of submissions treating any aspect of the order’s shaping of the built environment. For full details read the complete CFP text below, or download the call in English, Italian, or Spanish.

Huge thanks to Gaia Nuccio and Marco Capponi for organizing this, along with the Theatine fathers at Sant’Andrea della Valle who will host the conference next March.

Call for Papers

First among the religious orders born in the climate of the Catholic Reformation and rooted in the sensibility of Devotio moderna, the order of Clerics Regular Theatines was officially founded in 1524 by Gian Pietro Carafa (1476-1559, elected pope with the name of Paul IV from 1555), Gaetano Thiene (1480-1547), Bonifacio de’ Colli (ϯ 1558) and Paolo Consiglieri (1499-1557). After settling in Venice (from 1527), Naples (from 1538) and finally in Rome (from 1555), between the end of the Council of Trent and the middle of the seventeenth century the order became widespread in Italy, at the same time as it began expanding in Europe and evangelizing in non-Christian territories, mainly in the Caucasus and the East Indies.

In spite of the importance of Theatine houses and places of worship, and the relevance of Theatine patrons and architects, the order has not enjoyed the kind of critical reception enjoyed by other early modern orders, such as the Jesuits, the Barnabites or the Oratorians. The dispersion of a large part of the order’s documentary heritage and, in particular, the scarcity and unevenness of the drawings and other architectural evidence held in the Theatine general archives at Sant’Andrea della Valle in Rome have certainly been among the reasons that have hindered attempts to produce synthetic studies of Theatine architecture.

In recent years new data and questions have emerged from an increasing amount of research, partly published in the journal of the order, Regnum Dei. Collectanea Theatina, and discussed in specific, limited forums, such as a first international conference dedicated to the Theatine foundations in Sicily (2003) and a study day on the history of the Venetian church and house of San Nicolò da Tolentino and the alterations that have affected it (2017). Today it finally seems possible to think of a scholarly gathering in which to relate some of the many histories regarding the Theatines and architecture.

Starting from the architectural enterprises and evidence associated with the order of Clerics Regular Theatines between the sixteenth and the eighteenth centuries, this conference intends to create an initial framework within which to investigate the urgent issues and historiographic problems facing historians today. Namely:

• the settlement strategies of the Theatines in relation to urban context, to economic choices, and to the process of reuse and appropriation of sites;
• the particular role of great promoters, financial backers, and patrons in respect to the expansion of the order and their effects on the development of the order’s sites for churches and houses, with particular reference to sacred space;
• the role of Theatine priests as patrons or architects of buildings outside the order;
• the circulation and migration of models, techniques, and architectural experts and amateurs among Theatine building sites and/or Theatine commissions;
• the dynamics of the “center-periphery” relationship, understood as the relationship between the Roman mother house and the other foundations of the order, through investigation of the genesis and design process of Theatine buildings;
• the knowledge, skills, and theoretical and scientific debates regarding architecture in the Theatine context, also considering the books held in Theatine libraries and the publications of the order’s priests;
• the effects of the order’s spirituality on the selection of building materials, on architectural and decorative solutions, and on the relation of these to antiquity;
• the relationship between tradition and experimentation (typological, architectural and in relation to construction techniques) in Theatine buildings;
• the differences and distinctive features in design approach, in functional organization, in management of the building sites, and in the choices of material and manner of construction when comparing the houses for religious, buildings intended for teaching, and those destined for worship;
• when and how celebrations, processions and ephemeral apparatuses transformed Theatine sacred space and its relation to the urban context.

The possibility of researching and identifying any unique characteristics of the architecture of the Clerics Regular Theatines – both going back to the problems they faced as the first order founded in the early modern era, and in relation to the production of other orders founded around the same time – certainly invites wider reflection than themes strictly related to architecture. One of the keys to understanding this could be found in the “arma apostolica” that Carafa requested from Clement VII in 1533, “tam circa vestimenta quam circa alias cerimonias,” with which the first Theatines, anticipating the difficulties related to evangelizing in distant lands, had the opportunity to flexibly adapt to different, geographically distant cultural realities.

The conference will be hosted by the Generalate of the Theatine order at the church of Sant’Andrea della Valle in Rome and will take place from 22-23 March 2022. Given the uncertainty of the evolving public health situation, the organizers plan to hold the event in hybrid format, both in-person and online.

The proceedings of the conference will be published in a special issue of the journal Lexicon. Storie e Architettura in Sicilia e nel Mediterraneo, a biannual periodical of studies in architectural history, classified as class A for the assessment sectors 08/C1, D1, E1, E2, F1 of the Italian national agency for the evaluation of universities and research institutes (Anvur).

Those interested in participating should send a biography of approximately ten lines and a long abstract of no more than 700 words, accompanied by a reference bibliography of no more than ten items, to the email address convegno.architetturateatina@gmail.com by 7 January 2022. Abstracts will be accepted in Italian, English, French and Spanish. No registration fees are required.

For clarification of any questions, please contact convegno.architetturateatina@gmail.com

Timeline:
1 November 2021 – Call for papers
7 January 2022– Deadline for submission of biography and long abstracts
15 January 2022 – Notification of acceptance
22-23 March 2022 – Conference

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Downloads

“Circa vestimenta”: The Theatines and Architecture, CFP English

“Circa vestimenta”: i Teatini e l’architettura, CFP italiano

“Circa vestimenta”: los Teatinos y la arquitectura, CFP español

Entangled Histories, Multiple Geographies: Program

Posted on 30 September 2015 by Susan Klaiber

EAHN 2015 Conference Program Now Online

The EAHN 2015 Regional Thematic Conference Entangled Histories, Multiple Geographies will be held in Belgrade from 14-17 October 2015. The conference program is now available online, and features twelve panels organized in four sessions of three panels each. The panels are further classified within eight tracks: Transfer, Politicized City, Ideology, Communities’ Roots, Historiography, Identity, Contested Heritage and Constructed Traditions. Three keynote speakers – Branko Mitrović, Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen, and Aleksandar Kadijević – and a concluding roundtable moderated by Ana Miljački frame the conference program as plenary sessions.

A detailed program for the session I will chair on 16 October, Contested Heritage, may be downloaded here as a PDF file. The images below give a preview of the themes to be covered by the five papers in my session.