{"id":14072,"date":"2025-12-22T11:58:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T10:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/suabroad.syr.edu\/florence\/?p=14072"},"modified":"2025-12-22T11:59:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T10:59:19","slug":"florence-graduate-program-celebrates-record-cohort-at-39th-annual-symposium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/suabroad.syr.edu\/florence\/2025\/12\/22\/florence-graduate-program-celebrates-record-cohort-at-39th-annual-symposium\/","title":{"rendered":"Florence Graduate Program Celebrates Record Cohort at 39th Annual Symposium\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-flickr wp-block-embed-flickr\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a data-flickr-embed='true' href='https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/suflorence\/albums\/72177720330742171' title='39th Florence Graduate Symposium by Syracuse University Florence, on Flickr'><img src='https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54965814422_ea29c2b48e.jpg' width='800' height='600' alt='39 Graduate Symposium-0'><\/a><script async src='https:\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js' charset='utf-8'><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>On December 5, 2025, the Florence Graduate Program in Italian Renaissance Art hosted its 39th Annual Symposium, welcoming a virtually\u00a0standing-room-only audience to Villa Rossa&#8217;s Room 13 to hear the largest M.A. cohort in the program\u2019s history present their capstone research. The event highlighted not only the caliber of student work, but also the program\u2019s defining strength: <strong>Florence is not a setting for study; it is the site of study.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As one of the College of Arts and Sciences\u2019 signature programs, the Florence Program offers an M.A. in Art History through an immersive experience in Italy that is difficult to replicate anywhere else. Students\u00a0don\u2019t\u00a0learn about the Renaissance at a distance; they study it where it was made, with <strong>direct access to artworks, architecture, and the documentary and conservation infrastructures that sustain the field<\/strong>. Working in and beyond Florence, candidates develop the practices of professional art historians\u2014close looking, archival research, and persuasive public presentation\u2014while engaging a community of recognized scholars, conservators, curators, and research institutes.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That is why the experience is so transformative. Supported by a rigorous curriculum and close mentorship, students graduate with the skills to pursue a wide range of careers, producing original research that makes substantive contributions to Renaissance studies.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This year\u2019s symposium also underscored the program\u2019s continuity across generations with the visit of Professor Eric Frank and Penni Montalbano (both alumni, 1976). Frank, a longtime art history professor at Occidental College,&nbsp;had the opportunity to&nbsp;reconnect with&nbsp;Oxy&nbsp;alumni including Jennifer Cowden and Sean Nelson, who now teaches the program\u2019s graduate seminar \u201cMapping a Global Renaissance.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With capstone presentations ranging from women\u2019s art-historical biography and Medici-era politics to diplomatic ritual and devotional imagery, the symposium made clear why the Florence Program endures: it reshapes how students look, how they research, and how they speak as scholars.\u00a0The symposium is the public culmination of that transformation\u2014proof that <strong>the Renaissance holds \u201calways more to say,\u201d\u00a0and that Florence\u00a0remains\u00a0one of the best places in the world to learn how to say it.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By Martina Daniele<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On December 5, 2025, the Florence Graduate Program in Italian Renaissance Art hosted its 39th Annual Symposium, welcoming a virtually\u00a0standing-room-only audience to Villa Rossa&#8217;s Room 13 to hear the largest M.A. cohort in the program\u2019s history present their capstone research. 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