Villa I Tatti - The Harvard Univ. Center for Italian Renaissance Studies
Description
The Harvard University Center at Villa I Tatti in Florence, Italy is devoted to advanced study of the Italian Renaissance in all its aspects. http://itatti.harvard.edu/ Since the first Fellows arrived in 1961, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies at Villa I Tatti has become the foremost research institution in the world for Italian Renaissance art, history, literature, and music. Harvard University inherited Villa I Tatti and its estate outside Florence from the distinguished art historian Bernard Berenson, together with his vast collection of books, photographs, and works of art. Shortly before his death in 1959, Berenson wrote that his “first and foremost wish is to establish fellowships that will provide leisure and tranquility to sixteen or more promising students … Nothing opens mind and heart like free discussion of gifted maturing individuals, coming together with their own national traditions and differing attitudes and approaches.”
Today, the Center offers fifteen full-year post-doctoral Fellowships annually, as well as several Visiting Fellowships for shorter periods. It provides a tranquil setting where scholars from around the world can exchange ideas and carry out their research. In this way, I Tatti aims to increase our understanding of the Italian Renaissance.
The Berenson Library, with holdings of nearly 175,000 volumes, and subscriptions to over 600 scholarly journals, seeks to provide comprehensive coverage of current scholarship on all aspects of the Italian Renaissance. The library includes an extensive and historically important photograph collection, with over 250,000 prints, an archive that documents the lives and work of Bernard and Mary Berenson, and the Morrill Music Library, considered one of the finest in the world for medieval and Renaissance music. The historic house contains a major collection of Renaissance and Asian art, installed much as it was in Berenson’s day. I Tatti also consists of a working farm and a historic garden. Since it was completed in 1915, the Italianate garden designed by Cecil Pinsent has provided inspiration for generations of designers and scholars.
Tell your friends
RECENT FACEBOOK POSTS
facebook.comSan Lorenzo: A Florentine Church. A New Addition to the Villa I Tatti Series | Villa I Tatti | The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies
Photos from Villa I Tatti - The Harvard Univ. Center for Italian Renaissance Studies's post
After a successful academic year we look forward to the arrival of our new fellows in September. Please remember the Berenson Library will remain closed until Monday, 4 September 2017. Wishing you a wonderful summer!
Villa I Tatti - The Harvard Univ. Center for Italian Renaissance Studies's cover photo
"Unfinished Renaissances" | Villa I Tatti | The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies
Announcing a cluster for the fall 2018 issue of I Tatti Studies in the Italian Renaissance. http://itatti.harvard.edu/news/unfinished-renaissances
"Dislodging the Renaissance: On Henri Focillon's Life of Forms" | Villa I Tatti | The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies
June 8 at I Tatti - 6.00pm
Spring 2017 I Tatti Studies out now | Villa I Tatti | The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies
I Tatti Studies 20.1 - out now
Announcing the 2017/2018 I Tatti Appointees | Villa I Tatti | The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies
2017 - 2018 I Tatti Appointees - names and project titles now online!
Thursday Seminar: “Artigianato virtuosistico: opere d’arte nascoste create nei conventi italiani e francesi.” | Villa I Tatti | The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies
This evening at I Tatti: 6.00pm
International Conference: Music in the Mediterranean Diaspora
May 18 & 19 at I Tatti - no registration required
I Tatti Newsletter - Spring 2017 | Villa I Tatti | The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies
I Tatti's all-new Newsletter is out now
Thirteen Harvard faculty named fellows of American Academy of Arts and Sciences
I Tatti's Director Alina Payne is one of thirteen Harvard faculty members elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Capturing Byzantium | Villa I Tatti | The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies
Quiz
