Welcome!

The Tenth Quadrennial Italian Renaissance Sculpture Conference, known colloquially as “Provo-Athens,” will convene at Stony Brook University – The State University of New York in Stony Brook, NY on 1-3 May 2025.

Registration is open and the program is posted!

The conference is co-organized by Karen Lloyd and Fernando Loffredo and sponsored by The Center for Italian Studies at Stony Brook University.

The conference is supported by The Kress Foundation; The Lila Wallace Special Project Grant – I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies; The Office of the Vice-President for Research, Stony Brook University; The Office of the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, Stony Brook University, with additional contributions from the Humanities Institute, the Institute for Globalization Studies, and the Departments of Hispanic Languages and Literature, History, and Languages and Cultural Studies.

The conference will provide a forum for the presentation of new research on Italian sculpture during the Renaissance, broadly defined. In this 10th anniversary iteration, together with the traditional subjects of the conference, we are interested in chronological and geographic continuities, and also welcome proposals that explore the topic from peninsular, Mediterranean, Hispanic, and global perspectives through the early modern period. The conference offers opportunities for the convivial exchange of ideas in more informal settings and contexts.