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In collaboration with the Harvard Center Shanghai and Shanghai Fudan University, Villa I Tatti - The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies (Florence) organized the conference “Space in Renaissance Italy”. The first day of the conference was hosted at Harvard Center Shanghai on October 16, and the second day was hosted at Fudan University.
Scholars based China, Japan, Europe, and the US examined the varied meanings and functions of Renaissance space as expressed through art and architecture, historical developments, literature, and urbanism. Space has emerged in recent scholarship on Early Modern Europe as crucial for understanding the relationships between objects and their original viewers. Some participants compared how space was created and discussed in Renaissance Italy and in Asia, others considered the micro-histories of objects that have moved between one cultural context and another as vehicles of cultural translation of spatial values.
