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SUMMARY:Works-in-Progress Session: Drawings for the Medici Trionfi da Tavol
 a (1646–1670) and the Corporeal Nature of Vessels in Early Modern Floren
 ce
DESCRIPTION:\nPresented by Emily Ann Ostlander\, Ph.D. Student\, University
  of California\, Los Angeles\n\n\nHosted by the Early Modern Research Grou
 p\n\nOnline event via Zoom\nTo register\, please visit: https://ucla.zoom.
 us/meeting/register/tJUtc-2vpj0oEtEnrJdCJuoDudU5rn4nCj7B\n\n\nA drawing in
  ink and blue wash from a series of table-top creations known as the Trion
 fi da Tavola presents viewers with a design for a fantastic ewer. The vess
 el is devised as an assemblage of forms from nature. Vascular tubes conver
 ge into a tree trunk and gnarled branches frame an unexpected composition 
 of bodies. An annotation attempts to explain the design of the vessel by d
 escribing how it circulates liquid\, with red wine filling figures of eagl
 es and serpents\, and white wine flowing into the rest of the apparatus. T
 he anatomical character of the drawing provokes my investigation of contem
 porary ideas of the body\, fantasy\, and metamorphosis.\n\nThe series of d
 rawings for table centerpieces was made for the Florentine court of Ferdin
 ando II de’ Medici (1610–70) during a period of heightened experimenta
 tion in the luxury arts. Since the designs are not signed by an artist\, s
 cholarship on the Trionfi has concentrated on questions of attribution. In
 stead\, this work-in-progress session situates the drawings from the Trion
 fi in the history of early modern designs for ewers. It then explores how 
 they were vehicles for the transmission of ideas about bodies and material
 s in seventeenth-century Florence.\n\nEmily Ann Ostlander is a first-year 
 Ph.D. student in Art History at UCLA. As an undergraduate at New York Univ
 ersity\, she became interested in early modern art through her work at the
  Acton Collection at Villa La Pietra in Florence. Her Master’s thesis\, 
 completed in 2024\, analyzed a seventeenth-century thesis print to demonst
 rate the political efficacy of iterative imagery to promote the architectu
 ral interventions of Pope Alexander VII (1599–1667) in Rome. Her current
  research focuses on representations of the body that resist conventions o
 f gender and idealization in Italy during the sixteenth century.\n\n\n\nIm
 age: Attributed to the Master of the Medici Banquet Decanters (Italian\, a
 ctive 17th century)\, Design for a Ewer\, 1646–70\, 14 1/8 × 10 1/8 in.
 \, Pen and ink and blue wash\, The J. Paul Getty Museum Collection.
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