The

Itinerant
Shrine
Art, History, and the Multiple Geographies
of the Holy House of Loreto
Clive’s Conference
The Courtauld Institute of Art, Vernon Square Campus
30 June – 1 July 2022

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Clive’s Conference is kindly supported by Dr Nicholas Murray and

Mr William Sharp in loving memory of Mr Clive Davies
The Itinerant Shrine - Conference Programme
Thursday, June 30 Friday, July 1
Lecture Theatre 1, The Courtauld, Vernon Square Campus, Penton Rise, London
Lecture Theatre 1, The Courtauld, Vernon Square Campus, Penton Rise, London

13:00 Registration 9:30 Displaying Devotion: Patrons, Artists, and Pilgrims

Chair: Amanda Hilliam, I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Italian
13:30 Institutional Introduction Renaissance Studies

Alixe Bovey, The Courtauld Institute of Art

From Limoges to the Marche: A Tabernacle Shrine, the Cult of the Eucharist,
Nicholas Murray and William Sharp
and Early Devotion to the Virgin of Loreto

Ferruccio Botto, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa

14:00 Conference Introduction

Matteo Chirumbolo, The Courtauld Institute of Art; Kunsthistorisches Institut Loreto and the Counter-Reformation: The Decoration of the Apsidal Chapels
in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut
of the Holy House in the Second Half of the Sixteenth Century

Antongiulio Sorgini, Johns Hopkins University

Francesca Coltrinari, University of Macerata

14:30 Material Foundations between Loreto and Nazareth 10:30 Feats and Fates of the Flying House
Chair: Lloyd de Beer, The British Museum
Chair: Robert Maniura, Birkbeck, University of London

Dust, Verses, and Veils: Contact Relics at Loreto From Whorehouse to Holy House: Venus and the Virgin at the Brussels
Margaret Meserve, University of Notre Dame
Minim Convent during the Counter-Reformation

Eelco Nagelsmit, University of Groningen

‘But Above All We Desired to See Nazareth’: Visiting the Site of the
Two Against Many: The Fate of the Santa Casa in Slaný during the
Annunciation after the Rise of Loreto
Communist Normalization

Emily Price, Newcastle University

Josef Kadeřábek, Charles University, Prague

15:30 Break
11:30 Break
15:45 Defining the Sacred Landscape
11:45 New Itineraries
Chair: Alison Wright, University College London

Chair: Scott Nethersole, The Courtauld Institute of Art

To Bring Together Heaven and Earth: Regional, Spiritual, and Mundane

Methodological Approaches to a Mexican Case: The Image and the Church,
Economies at Santa Maria di Loreto, 1379-1453

the People and the City

Bianca Lopez, I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Luisa Elena Alcalá, Universidad Autónoma of Madrid

Studies

In Retrospect: Trends in European Sante Case

           An Ottoman Flag in the Sanctuary of Loreto

Erin Giffin, I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance
Mattia Guidetti, University of Bologna
Studies

King’s College Chapel, The Strand, London

12:45 Closing Remarks

18:00 Lauretan Litanies through the Ages Gerhard Wolf, Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut

  The Choir of King's College London under the direction of Joseph Fort