Event Details
Tue, March 31, 2026
18:00 – 19:30
VILLA LA PIETRA
Villa La Pietra
Via Bolognese, 120
50139 Florence, Italy
Phoebus [Apollo] loves her [Daphne]
in this form, as well. He sets his right hand
on her trunk, and feels her heart still trembling
under the new bark and with his own arms
hugs the branches, as if they were her limbs.
He kissed the wood, but it shrank from his kiss.
OVID, METAMORPHOSES, I.814 – 19
A roundtable introduced by Francesca Baldry, Villa La Pietra Collection Manager
Syrinx and Philyra: Re‑Signifying Myth in the Late Renaissance – Silvia Giorgi, Art Historian, NYU Florence Lecturer
Comparing the Myth of Europa and the Sabine Women: Female Themes and Their Communication – Anna Bisceglia, Art Historian, Curator of Sixteenth and early Seventeenth Century paintings at the Uffizi Gallery
Mythos: Experiencing and re-evaluating representations of gender violence in western classical visual arts, as presented in museums – Baptiste Lignel, Photographer, introduced by Alessandra Capodacqua, NYU Florence Lecturer
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Featured Biographies
Silvia Giorgi
ART HISTORIAN AND LECTURER, NYU FLORENCE
Silvia Giorgi graduated in 1995 with a degree in Medieval Art History from the University of Siena. After receiving several research fellowships and scholarships in Italy and abroad (Fondazione Longhi in Florence, The University of Siena, The University College London), she received a Ph.D. in Renaissance Iconography from the University of Siena. She further acquired a Masters in Art Management and Communication at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa in 1997 and a Certificate in Museum Curatorship in 2000. She is an expert in Medieval and Renaissance Art History as well as Iconography and Iconology, and has published and presented prolifically on these topics. Her current research focuses on Renaissance Iconography in Central Italy and on Sienese Goldsmith’s art. Silvia has taught for several US programs in Florence and Siena, and joined the CET Florence and CET Siena faculty in 2009.
Anna Bisceglia
Curator of Sixteenth and early Seventeenth Century paintings at the Uffizi Gallery
Baptiste Lignel
PHOTOGRAPHER
Baptiste Lignel is a photographer, a publisher and an educator. Working between Paris and Rome he uses photography to address contemporary social issues. His current project, titled Mythos, is questioning the abundant representation of sexual violence in classical arts and the context in which they are presented to a contemporary audience. Mythos will be published as a book in the Fall of 2026.