The museum at home! Live video conferences

Meetings and conferences

The Tridentine diocesan museum offers new opportunities for meetings and distance learning: a calendar of video conferences with experts from the Museum, university professors and art historians will enable visitors to deepen some historical-artistic themes.

To participate in the video conferences it is necessary to register by sending an email to valentinaperini@mdtn.it. The meetings are free and include the use of a video conference platform. At the time of registration you will receive by email instructions to participate in the meeting. Video conferences last about an hour.

CONFERENCES

Tuesday 19 May, at 18.00

Trento and Simonino: many questions and some answers 

With Emanuele Curzel
Some months after the exhibition opening, one of the authors of the essays in the catalogue reflects on the questions that were asked on the eve, tries to give some answers, and to answer other questions that will be asked.

Registration: valentinaperini@mdtn.it

Friday 22 May, at 11.00

Entertaining, educating, moving. The figurative arts after the Council of Trento

With Domizio Cattoi

Obiettivo della videoconferenza è quello di indagare le ripercussioni del decreto del concilio di Trento sulle immagini destinate ai luoghi di culto – emanato nel 1563 – e la produzione figurativa successiva. Nel tentativo di far fronte alle aspre critiche mosse dal mondo protestante all’uso cultuale delle immagini infatti, il concilio stabilì alcuni principi generali circa le caratteristiche delle rappresentazioni da esporre nelle chiese. Queste nuove istanze sollecitarono gli artisti a collaudare inediti modelli iconografici e a sperimentare nuove formule espressive adatte a soddisfare le esigenze devozionali della Chiesa.

The aim of the videoconference is to investigate the repercussions of the decree of the Council of Trento - issued in 1563 - on images intended for places of worship and their subsequent figurative production. In an attempt to deal with the harsh criticism of the cultural use of images by the Protestant world, the Council established some general principles regarding the characteristics of the representations to be exhibited in churches. These new demands urged artists to test new iconographic models and to experiment with new expressive formulas suited to the devotional needs of the Church.

Registration: valentinaperini@mdtn.it

To participate in the video conferences it is necessary to register by sending an email to valentinaperini@mdtn.it. The meetings are free and include the use of a video conference platform. At the time of registration you will receive by email instructions to participate in the meeting.