10.00-17:30, Saturday 1 February 2014 (with registration from 09.30)
Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre, The Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 0RN
Ticket/Entry details: Admission free, all welcome. No booking is necessary.
Medieval art and architecture are often misconceived as being governed by categories and boundaries, be it geographical, social, or artistic. This colloquium will aim to question and challenge these assumptions by highlighting the fluidity and flexibility extant within art and architecture at the time. Boundaries will be interpreted in the wider sense of the word, encompassing geographic location and artistic media as well as questions of in-betweenness and hybridity. The papers will explore the issue of the creation and articulation of boundaries, the question of the validity of scholarly categories, and how art ventured to transgress visual, architectural, and cultural divisions.
PROGRAMME
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9.30-10.00:
10.00-10.10
10.10-10.30:
10.30-10.50:
10.50-11.10:
11.10-11.30:
11.30-12.00:
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Registration
WELCOME
SESSION 1 – The Problem of Categories in Medieval Art and Architecture. Chair: Michaela Zöschg
Sophie Dentzer (The Courtauld Institute of Art): Beyond Geographical and Stylistic Boundaries: an Approach to the Study of English Decorative Vaulting
Dragoş Năstăsoiu (Central European University, Budapest):Transgressing Boundaries: Mural Painting in the Orthodox Churches of Fourteenth- and Fifteenth-century Transylvania
James Hillson (University of York): Architectural Interaction Post-Bony: Regions, Centres and Archetypes in the English Decorated Style
Discussion
Tea Break
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12.00-12.20:
12.20-12.40:
12.40-13.00:
13.00-13.20:
13.20-14.30:
14.30-14.50:
14.50-15.10:
15.10-15.30:
15.30-15.50:
15.50-16.20:
16.20-16.40:
16.40-17.00:
17.00-17.20:
17.20 – 17.30
17.30
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SESSION 2 – Transgression and Transition. Chair: Joost Joustra
Federica Gigante (The Warburg Institute and SOAS): Islamic Textile as Boundary in Fourteenth-Century Italian Art and Architecture
Veronica Dell’Agostino (La Sapienza, Rome): Ornamental Painting as Limit of the Painted Space: the Case of ‘San Pietro al Monte di Civate’ Fresco Fragments
Maria Alessia Rossi (The Courtauld Institute of Art): Inbetween Text and Image: the Case of Christ’s Miracle Cycle
Discussion
Lunch break (not provided)
SESSION 3 – Structures of Power. Chair: Maeve O’Donnell
Cristina Dagalita (University of Paris IV, Sorbonne): Illustrating Dissidence: the Fool among the Foolish Virgins
Antonino Tranchina (La Sapienza, Rome): Inscriptions at the Martorana in Palermo: Performing Monumental Speeches across Materials and Languages at the Times of Roger II
Karl Kinsella (Oxford University): Doors as Portals: Structures of Power in Anglo- Saxon Art
Discussion
Tea Break
SESSION 4 – The Visualisation of Marginality. Chair: Jack Hartnell
Monika Winiarczyk (University of Glasgow): Marginal and Intricate: Synagoga and the Medieval Christian Conception of Judaism
Andrea Mattiello (University of Birmingham): Katechoumena/gynaikites: Upper Galleries in Late Palaiologan Churches in Mystra
Niamh Bhalla (The Courtauld Institute of Art): Asserted Binaries and Ambiguous Borders: Gender and the Image of the Last Judgment in Byzantium
Closing Remarks (Dr Antony Eastmond, The Courtauld Institute of Art)
RECEPTION
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Medieval Art Research 