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SUMMARY:Work-in-Progress Session: Water on the Arno: Giulio Parigi’s Desi
 gns for the 1608 Argonautica
DESCRIPTION:–presented by Laura Hutchingame\, UCLA\n\nHosted by Helen Deu
 tsch\, Director and Professor of English\, UCLA\n\nThis event is free of c
 harge\, but you must register to attend in advance. All audience members w
 ill receive instructions via email after registration. Click the following
  link to register directly with Zoom: https://ucla.zoom.us/meeting/registe
 r/tJcsdOCsrjIrH9QeCEeKM3ZQKRKT1u08BRKT \n\nAs part of our ongoing effort 
 to sustain intellectual community and enable scholarly exchange\, and in o
 rder to support and encourage the work many of us are doing in a range of 
 public forums during this unprecedented time\, the UCLA Center for 17th- 
 &amp\; 18th-Century Studies and William Andrews Clark Memorial Library a
 re hosting works-in-progress sessions and panel discussions online via Zoo
 m during the 2020–21 academic year. Academic programs supported by the C
 enter/Clark explore the latest research in the early modern period (includ
 ing the long eighteenth century\, which extends through the Romantic perio
 d) and in special areas represented in the Clark’s collections.\n\nIn 1
 608 the Medici court artist\, Giulio Parigi\, was tasked with designing a 
 fleet of ceremonial ships to celebrate the marriage of Cosimo II de’ Med
 ici and Maria Magdalena of Austria. The wedding festivities in Florence we
 re known to be some of the most extravagant and theatrical of Medici spect
 acles\, the stature of which grew rapidly via the printed festival books t
 hat documented the event. A crucial component of the festivities was the A
 rgonautica\, a Jason and the Argonauts-themed mock naval battle staged on 
 the Arno River. Laura Hutchingame analyzes three of Parigi’s design draw
 ings for apparati (processional floats or structures)\, all of which repre
 sent Argonautica vessels constituted by natural forms such as land formati
 ons\, marine creatures\, and the four elements. The aquatic forms on the a
 pparati in particular prompt interesting questions regarding the relations
 hip between ship design and Medici interests in natural phenomena. In this
  talk\, she will focus on one facet of such ecological connections and exa
 mine water in Parigi’s designs alongside the river setting of the Argona
 utica in the context of seventeenth-century Medici environmental policy.\n
 \nA synopsis of Laura’s paper will be pre-circulated to registrants.\n\n
 Laura Hutchingame is a second year Ph.D. student in the Department of Art 
 History. Her dissertation considers the relationship between woodworking\,
  naval architecture\, and church decoration in the Venetian lagoon between
  1300–1650. Broader research interests include wood sculpture\, artisana
 l practices\, process and modes of making\, and intersections between mate
 rial culture\, decorative arts\, and Art History. She holds two master's d
 egrees: one from UCLA in Art History\, and one from the University of Toro
 nto in History of Art. Before graduate school\, Laura received a B.A. Hono
 rs with High Distinction in Art History from Carleton University.
CATEGORIES:Lectures
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