The international conference The Image of the Roma in Art History aims at discussing the image of the Roma in the history of art, in order to yield an overview from the earliest identified depiction of the Roma to the twentieth century. The conference examines the modes of representations developed by European artists to depict the Roma foreigners in European cities, first by the Northern German, and later the European Renaissance and Baroque art traditions; and it discusses the development of the specific iconographical types, in order to show the processes of differentiation, othering, demonization and abjectification in European visual history. The panels of the conference on the 19th and 20th century put a special emphasis on Central and Eastern Europe.