Study Day ‘Proust and the Arts 🗓 🗺

21 May 2025 Salone delle Adunanze of the Accademia delle Arti del Disegno Via Orsanmichele 4 – Florence- 10.00 Greetings by Cristina Acidini President Accademia delle Arti del DisegnoGaspare Polizzi Vice President DUS Class of the Accademia delle Arti del Disegno Guillaume Rousson Institut Français Florence Marco Lombardi Association of Friends of the French Institute of Florence and Accademia delle Arti del Disegno Michela Landi University of Florence and Accademia delle Arti del Disegno MORNING SESSION Chair: Gaspare Polizzi -10.30 Introduction: Anna Dolfi -11.00 Stefano Poggi Shadow, colour, perspective. Balbec and a Summer Afternoon Discussion -12.00 Mauro Minardi Proust and the Vermeer of the Kann Collection -12.30 Ludovico Monaci “Del fare un’effigie umana in profilo”: Leonardo da Vinci and the Sleep of Albertine Discussion Lunch AFTERNOON SESSION Chair: Michela Landi –14.30 Emilio Campagnoli The pictorial aesthetics of Elstir: an impressionism of memory -15.00 Stefano Brugnolo The painting of Elstir or how to make art freeing oneself from the tyranny of names Discussion -16.00 Giuseppe Girimonti Greco The genesis of certain iconographic ‘motifs’ in Proust’s early works -16.30 Giovanni Paoletti Artistic fruition and snobbish dynamics in the Recherche -17.00 Anna Masecchia Albertine’s desire, between still image and movement -17.30 Discussion and conclusion of the study day IN COLLABORATION WITH: ASSOCIATION OF FRIENDS OF THE FRENCH INSTITUTE OF FLORENCE INSTITUT FRANÇAIS UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE