Works-in-Progress Session: Drawings for the Medici Trionfi da Tavola and their Corporeal Nature
Mon 1/27/2025 • 12PM - 1PM PST
Presented by Emily Ann Ostlander, Ph.D. Student, University of California, Los Angeles, hosted by the Early Modern Research Group. A drawing in ink and blue wash from a series of table-top creations known as the "Trionfi da Tavola" presents viewers with a design for a fantastic ewer. The series of drawings for table centerpieces was made for the Florentine court of Ferdinando II de’ Medici (1610–70) during a period of heightened experimentation in the luxury arts. This work-in-progress session situates the drawings from the "Trionfi" in the history of early modern designs for ewers. It then explores how they were vehicles for transmitting ideas about bodies and materials in seventeenth-century Florence.