Purple Project

Finissage of the exhibition “Di porpora e di luce" - Biblioteca Nazionale di Napoli, Sala Rari, 6th February 2024, 4 pm
2024-02-06 16:00 - 18:30 (Europe/Rome)
Tuesday 6th February 2024 marks the end of the exhibition ‘Di porpora e di luce. Forma e materia dell’Antico nei codici della Biblioteca Nazionale di Napoli”, inaugurated last 1st December and curated by Daniela Bacca, Teresa D’Urso and Giulia Simeoni. The exhibition recounts the centuries-long adventure of the purple manuscripts, a book product of great value, which from Antiquity to the Renaissance changed form, meaning and function, while maintaining intrinsic symbolic values.
The closing event will offer a unique opportunity to get to know eight precious specimens from the Vittorio Emanuele III National Library and the Girolamini Library in Naples up close. For the occasion, some of the manuscripts will be opened at different folios from those hitherto visible. The researchers behind the project will illustrate the latest findings, guiding visitors to discover the materials and techniques used in the production of the purple manuscripts.
Free admission.

Red and black. Study day on purple manuscripts and manuscripts with dyed pages
2023-12-18
Padua, Liviano Palace, Aula Diano
18th December 2023
On Monday 18th December 2023, at the Aula Diano of Palazzo Liviano (piazza Capitaniato 7 – 35139 PADOVA), a study day will be held on the theme “Red and black. Study day on purple manuscripts and manuscripts with dyed pages”. Chiara Ponchia, Federica Toniolo and Laura Zabeo (PURPLE – research unit of the University of Padua), Josefina Planas Badenas (Universitat de Lleida) and Margherita Zibordi (University of Verona) will present their research.

Exhibition ""Di porpora e di luce. Forma e materia dell'antico nei codici della Biblioteca Nazionale di Napoli"
2023-12-01 08:00 - 2024-02-06 17:00
The exhibition ‘Di porpora e di luce. Forma e materia dell’antico nei codici della Biblioteca Nazionale di Napoli’ will be open from the 1st December 2023 to the 6th February 2024, .
The exhibition, organised as part of the PURPLE project, will be an opportunity to present the results of the research conducted on the Naples National Library’s purple codices, a corpus of great interest that offers a wide and varied case study in terms of chronology (from the 5th to the 15th century) and geographical provenance

At the Crossroads of the Mediterranean. The Aragonese Humanist Monarchy in the Ideological and Cultural Context of the Renaissance
2023-11-22 08:00 - 2023-11-24 17:00
Naples, Palazzo Du Mesnil, 22-24 November 2023
In the context of the conference ‘At the Crossroads of the Mediterranean. The Aragonese Humanist Monarchy in the Ideological and Cultural Context of the Renaissance’, Teresa D’Urso will present a paper entitled ‘A Mediterranean Legacy. Purple in Neapolitan Renaissance Manuscripts’.

Conferenza “I codici purpurei e l’Offiziolo Durazzo”
2023-10-27 15:00 - 17:00
Genova, Palazzo Balbi Senarega, Aula M, ore 15:00

On Friday 27 October 2023, Federica Toniolo, Chiara Ponchia and Maurizio Aceto will talk about the Offiziolo Durazzo and the PURPLE project in a conference entitled ‘The Purple Codices and the Offiziolo Durazzo’.

Lecture series "Medioevo dottorale, Ricerche in corso, pubblicazioni recenti"
2023-05-09 15:00 - 17:00
Verona, Department of Culture and Civilisation
As part of the lecture series ‘Doctoral Middle Ages, Ongoing Research, Recent Publications’, Chiara Ponchia will give a lecture entitled ‘Precious Pages: The Long History of the Purple Codice’.

Convegno “Buchkunst und Bildgestaltung um 1000. Der Diskurs der ottonischen Epoche”
2023-03-22 00:00 - 2023-03-23 00:00
Trier, Wissenschaftliche Bibliothek der Stadt

In occasione del convegno ““Buchkunst und Bildgestaltung um 1000. Der Diskurs der ottonischen Epoche”, Fabrizio Crivello presenterà il paper “Trier und die Purpurhandschriften der ottonischen Zeit”, frutto di ricerche condotte nell’ambito del progetto PURPLE.

International Symposium "Iconography 2022. The representation of space between reality and symbol"
2022-12-12 - 2022-12-14 | Palazzo Liviano, Piazza Capitaniato, 7, padova, padova, 35139, Italia
International Symposium ‘Iconography 2022. The representation of space between reality and symbol””.
Padua, Palazzo Liviano – Venice, Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti – 12nd-14th December 2022
On the occasion of the international symposium “”Iconography 2022. The representation of space between reality and symbol “”, two members of the consortium, Federica Toniolo and Chiara Ponchia, will present the paper “”The space of purple, the space in the purple. A first survey”, the result of research conducted within the PURPLE project.

International Conference "The Piacenza Cathedral and Medieval Civilisation"
2022-09-22 09:30 - 21:00
24th September 2022
International Conference “”The Piacenza Cathedral and Medieval Civilisation”” Piacenza, 20th-24th September 2022
On the occasion of the International
Conference ‘The Piacenza Cathedral and Medieval Civilisation’, Fabrizio Crivello presented his research on the Angilberga Psalter, one of the most famous medieval purple codices, in a paper entitled ‘The Angilberga Psalter: First Reconsiderations’.
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