14.06.2022

ENLIGHTENED KNOWLEDGE OF NATURE IN ITS HABSBURG SETTINGS

Minerals and Imperial Collecting at Florence and Vienna

What did mineral collecting and cataloguing mean in an imperial context? What connected Vienna and Florence?

The Institute of Culture Studies and Theatre History of the Austrian Academy of Sciences cordially invites you to a symposium on the occasion of the publication of the book “Collectio Mineralium. The Catalog of Holy Roman Emperor Leopold II’s Mineralogical Collection”, edited by Annarita Franza, Johannes Mattes, Giovanni Pratesi (University of Firenze Press, 2022, 284 pp.).

 

Programme

Welcome by Johannes Feichtinger (Director IKT, OeAW) and Lidia Pittarello (NHM Vienna)

Introductory remarks by Johannes Mattes (OeAW)

Comments by Franz L. Fillafer (OeAW), Annarita Franza (University of Florence), Martin Krenn (NHM Vienna)

Panel discussion

More information on the book  Link