Convenors:
Samuel Bibby and Nöelle Streeton, University College London, s.bibby@ucl.ac.uk and n.streeton@ucl.ac.uk

Speakers:
Nat Silver (University College London) ‘For the Trained and Seeing Eyes’: Francesco Pesellino and the emerging discipline of Art History 
Samuel Bibby (University College London) 'Senza che alcuno scrittore faccia menzione che vi si fosse una gocciola di sangue': Challenging Dominant Narratives in the Historiography of Uccello's Battle of San Romano Panels
Jeannie Labno (University of Sussex) Locating a Forgotten Renaissance: Shifting boundaries, conceptual identities and cultural frameworks in Central and Eastern Europe
Laurel Reed (University of California, San Diego) Crossing the Adriatic: Renaissance Painting in Dubrovnik
Erma Hermens (University of Glasgow) The Pesaro Court Workshops: Organisation, collaboration and production
Noëlle Streeton (University College London) Stasis or Evolution? The painting technique of Jan van Eyck
Sarah Bercusson (Queen Mary, University of London/ Victoria and Albert Museum) The Ephemera of History: Food gifts in 16th-century Italy
Maria Ruvoldt (Fordham University) Michelangelo at the Margins: Luxury arts and the afterlife of the gift drawings
Jenny Graham (University of Plymouth), Respondent

Session Abstract:
The study of the objects and visual culture of the Renaissance can be located at the foundation of our discipline, but this field of study has nevertheless become increasingly fragmented in the course of the twentieth century and into the twenty-first. The rethinking of the parameters of 'Renaissance', the competing interests of new methodologies and the myriad advances in scientific research have certainly enriched our understanding of the Renaissance as a cultural and historical moment. But how has the diversity of approaches altered our perception of, for example, individual artists and their workshops, and stylistic or national 'schools' of art – and how have such shifts been reflected within academic and curatorial practice? This panel will examine how the study of the Renaissance and its objects is located in current discourse, with the aim of considering the cohesive elements of our field and identifying opportunities for greater interdisciplinarity.