PAOLO PIVA (ed.). L’arte medievale nel contesto 300-1300. Funzioni, iconografia, tecniche, Jaca Book, 2015, 450 p. ISBN: 978-8816371255 El amplio abanico configurado por las contribuciones que conforman este volumen, donde se analizan funciones, temas y técnicas, incluyendo discusiones sobre personalidades artísticas, cronología y estilo, pone de manifiesto los fuertes raíces históricas del arte medieval, en su contexto. Sin unContinue reading “New publications: L’arte medievale nel contesto 300-1300. Funzioni, iconografia, tecniche AND L’arte di Francesco. Capolavori d’arte italiana e terre d’Asia dal XIII al XV secolo”
Yearly Archives: 2015
New publication: Monumentos singulares del románico: nuevas lecturas sobre formas y usos. Actas XIII Curso de Iniciación al Románico (Aguilar de Campoo), Fundación Santa María la Real, 2012
Monumentos singulares del románico: nuevas lecturas sobre formas y usos. Actas XIII Curso de Iniciación al Románico (Aguilar de Campoo), Fundación Santa María la Real, 2012, 244 p. ISBN: 978-84-15072-58-4 El románico español es uno de los más ricos de Europa, tanto por la cantidad de testimonios como por la calidad de muchos de ellos. En elContinue reading “New publication: Monumentos singulares del románico: nuevas lecturas sobre formas y usos. Actas XIII Curso de Iniciación al Románico (Aguilar de Campoo), Fundación Santa María la Real, 2012”
Conference programme: Seals and Status 800-1700 (British Museum, 4-6 Dec 2015)
Programme for Seals and Status 800-1700, a major conference at the British Museum, 4-6 December 2015. Book tickets at the official site. £50 (£25 students and concessions) Friday 4 December 08.30 Coffee and registration 09.30 Introduction Jonathan Williams, British Museum 09.45 Keynote 1 Status: an impression Brigitte Bedos-Rezak, New York University 10.45 Break 11.00 SessionContinue reading “Conference programme: Seals and Status 800-1700 (British Museum, 4-6 Dec 2015)”
Study Day: Opus Anglicanum, British Museum, British Archaeological Association Study Day, 26 November 2015
In the course of the later middle ages, embroiderers in England produced some of the masterpieces of the age. Incredibly detailed and painstakingly created their work was sumptuous and expensive. Often created as church vestments and commissioned by both ecclesiastical and secular patrons, the base textiles were embellished with gold and silver thread, a myriadContinue reading “Study Day: Opus Anglicanum, British Museum, British Archaeological Association Study Day, 26 November 2015”
Use of Models in Gothic Art (Geneva, 4-5 Nov 2016)
Call for Papers University of Geneva, November 4 – 05, 2016 Deadline: Dec 15, 2015 The University of Geneva’s Art History Unit and the University of Strasbourg’s Institute of Art History are organizing an international conference: Supposed Models, Identified Models: Their Uses in Gothic Art The topic of models, whose use is inherent to theContinue reading “Use of Models in Gothic Art (Geneva, 4-5 Nov 2016)”
Call for Papers: Dialogue and Difference in the Middle Ages (Bristol 25-26 Feb 2016)
Bristol Centre for Medieval Studies – 22nd annual postgraduate conference Thursday 25th – Friday 26th February 2016 Call for Papers Dialogue and Difference is an interdisciplinary conference bringing together scholars from all fields to explore the ways in which cultural, social, political, religious, scientific and intellectual exchange and interaction unfolded throughout the Middle Ages. DialoguesContinue reading “Call for Papers: Dialogue and Difference in the Middle Ages (Bristol 25-26 Feb 2016)”
Monumental Brass Society visit to Newark (17 Oct 2015)
Monumental Brass Society: Newark-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire Saturday, 17th October 2015 at 2.00p.m. The church of St Mary Magdalene, Newark-on-Trent, is a product of the ‘building boom’ of the 14th and 15th centuries. The townsmen and their families were the principal benefactors of the church paying for the reconstruction, providing its furnishings and establishing personal chantries andContinue reading “Monumental Brass Society visit to Newark (17 Oct 2015)”
Lecture Series: Murray Seminars on Medieval and Renaissance Art, Birkbeck, Autumn Term 2015
The Department of History of Art at Birkbeck presents a series of seminars on medieval and renaissance art, supported by the bequest established in memory of Professor Peter Murray, the Department’s founder.
CFP: Magic and Magicians in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age (The University of Arizona, Tucson, April 28 – 1 May 2016), deadline 31 January 2016
Organizer and Chair: Dr. Albrecht ClassenUniversity Distinguished ProfessorDept. of German Studies, 301 LSB, The University of Arizona520 621-1395; aclassen@u.arizona.edu; aclassen.faculty.arizona.edu Magic and the magician are two critically important aspects of cultural epistemology, challenging and contributing to the world of science, undermining it at the same time. Who was the magician, what did s/he do, how didContinue reading “CFP: Magic and Magicians in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age (The University of Arizona, Tucson, April 28 – 1 May 2016), deadline 31 January 2016”
Typical Venice? Venetian Commodities, 13th-16th centuries (3-6 March 2016)
Call for Papers Deutsches Studienzentrum in Venice, Palazzo Barbarigo della Terrazza, March 3 – 06, 2016 Deadline: Oct 31, 2015 Organizer: Dr. Philippe Cordez (ENB-Nachwuchsforschergruppe “Premodern Objects”, Department Kunstwissenschaften, LMU Munich) and PD Dr. Romedio Schmitz-Esser (Deutsches Studienzentrum in Venice) What are “Venetian” commodities? More than any other medieval or early modern city, Venice lived off ofContinue reading “Typical Venice? Venetian Commodities, 13th-16th centuries (3-6 March 2016)”
Medieval Art Research 