Ignacio Chuecas Saldías, “A Lamp in the Holy City”: Sephardic Exile, Family Ties and the Messianic Jerusalem. The Ladino Version of the Passover Haggadah, Venice (1624)
On Wednesday 11 November 1665, Venetian public notary Angelo Maria Piccino received the last will of “Signora Ester Senior consort of [...]
Loredana Lorizzo, Perceiving Others. Representing the Different in Baroque Europe
The production of pictorial, sculptural and engraved portraits greatly fostered knowledge of the Other. Effigies of African natives, Moors, slaves, Turks [...]
Emanuele Giusti, Johann Fischer von Erlach, the Mediterranean and Persepolis
Johann Bernard Fischer von Erlach (1656-1723) is known as one of the most prominent representatives of European Baroque. His architectural work [...]
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Katie Barclay, Legacies of Exile: The Stuarts in Rome
A portrait of Maria Clementina Sobieski (1702-1735) overlooks the left aisle of St Peter’s Basilica in Rome. It forms part of [...]
Philippe Bornet, The Mediterranean Space through South Indian Eyes, 1778–1786: Visual and Material Elements in the Varttamānappustakam
December 1779. Four men from distant Kerala are waiting for quarantine clearance in Genoa after sailing from Lisbon on a ship [...]
Giulia Iannuzzi, Early-Modern Luxury Timekeeping
An ivory diptych dial made soli deo gloria by Paulus Reinman (active 1575-1609) around 1600 in Nuremberg, at the time an important [...]
Charlene Ellul, Extracting and Recording Paper Features: An AI Approach,
There is no denying that the invention of paper was a major human accomplishment and a medium that had a profound [...]
Simona Cenci, Petrucci’s books of Frottole: the metamorphosis of a musical genre at the dawn of the printing revolution.
At the turn of the 16th century, Ottaviano Petrucci was granted by the Venetian Signoria a twenty-year privilege to print and [...]
Georgina Wilson, Water/marked
One afternoon during the Paper in Motion symposium at the Arnamagnæan Institute, Copenhagen, our group of paper conservators, literary scholars, archivists, [...]
PIMo Newsletter October 2022
PIMo Newsletter October 2022 With the new academic year well under way here in the Northern Hemisphere, the PIMo team are [...]
PIMo Youtube Playlist
You can now find all the videos produced by PIMo members in one place. This is a great resource for teaching [...]
Territori del Gesto: Ode Barbara, A Performance based on PIMo’s research, Florence, September 1st 2022.
This captivating piece, based on the research of the PIMo network, will be performed for the first time in Florence on [...]
PIMo Training School “Moving Goods for Charity Across the Mediterranean (15th-19th centuries), Video Presentations
You can find the excellent series of video presentations from the recent Bologna Training School by following this link to the [...]
Dónal Hassett, The Ile Sainte Marguerite: Geographies of Repression and Incarceration in the Colonial Mediterranean
The low clicking of the cicadas combines with the gentle lapping of the sea to block out all other noises. The [...]