Call for Papers: 5th Annual Jane Fortune Conference: The Colors of Paradise. Painting Miniatures in Italian Convents, ca. 1300-1700, The Library of San Marco, Florence, October 11 – 12, 2018T Deadline: 15 January, 2018 5th Annual Jane Fortune Conference The Colors of Paradise. Painting Miniatures in Italian Convents, ca. 1300-1700 This conference is co-organized by The Medici Archive Project andContinue reading “CFP: 5th Annual Jane Fortune Conference: The Colors of Paradise. Painting Miniatures in Italian Convents, ca. 1300-1700, The Library of San Marco, Florence, October 11 – 12, 2018”
Monthly Archives: January 2018
Call for Papers: Petrarch and Portraiture, XIV-XVI century
University of Cambridge, 8 June 2018 Confirmed Keynote Speaker: Dr Federica Pich, University of Leeds. Confirmed Respondent: Dr Abigail Brundin, University of Cambridge. The aim of the conference is to investigate the interplay between Petrarch’s writings and later Petrarchan literature with portraiture. Through his works in both Latin and in vernacular Petrarch made crucial contributionsContinue reading “Call for Papers: Petrarch and Portraiture, XIV-XVI century”
Call for papers: Art, Artists, Materials and Ideas Crossing Borders (Cambridge, 15-16 Nov 18)
Hamilton Kerr Institute, University of Cambridge, UK, November 15 – 16, 2018 Deadline: Feb 28, 2018 “Migrants: Art, Artists, Materials and Ideas Crossing Borders” This two-day conference organised by the Hamilton Kerr Institute, University of Cambridge, will reflect on the role of migration as embodied in works of art and material culture as documented in visual and written sources.
CFP: Living in a Magical World: Inner Lives, 1300–1900, St Anne’s College Oxford 2018, deadline 12 January 2018
Historians have learned to regard the supernatural as integral to past lives. No longer are magical and occult beliefs anachronistically condescended to as mere ‘superstitions’, entertained only by a credulous minority and for the most part ancillary to temporal existence. Instead, the near-constant presence of unseen yet powerful forces – both benevolent and malign, andContinue reading “CFP: Living in a Magical World: Inner Lives, 1300–1900, St Anne’s College Oxford 2018, deadline 12 January 2018”
Call for Papers: Transmissions and Translations in the Medieval World
2 – 3 June 2018 Kings Manor, University of York Keynote: Professor Roger Stalley The Conference The concepts of transmission and translation are central to the evolution of the pan-European multi-cultural nature of medieval society. Cross-cultural connections in the political arena, mercantile trade routes, the dissemination of Christianity and interactions with Islam and JudaismContinue reading “Call for Papers: Transmissions and Translations in the Medieval World”
Call for papers “Arte y producción textil en el Mediterráneo Medieval”
International conference “Arte y producción textil en el Mediterráneo Medieval” Madrid, Museo del Traje. CIPE, 25-27 September 2018 Deadline: 15 March 2018 This conference aims to analyse medieval textile production from a cross-sectoral approach, focusing on the Mediterranean as an area of confluences that gave rise to varied manufactures with common links. This meeting, which will beContinue reading “Call for papers “Arte y producción textil en el Mediterráneo Medieval””
Call for Participation – Mediterranean Palimpsests: Connecting the Art and Architectural Histories of Medieval and Early Modern Cities
The Cyprus Institute, with support through the Getty Foundation’s Connecting Art Histories initiative, is launching a new research seminar project: Mediterranean Palimpsests: Connecting the Art and Architectural Histories of Medieval and Early Modern Cities. Interested scholars at a formative stage of their careers are encouraged to apply for participation in the project’s three planned workshopsContinue reading “Call for Participation – Mediterranean Palimpsests: Connecting the Art and Architectural Histories of Medieval and Early Modern Cities”
Murray Seminars on Medieval and Renaissance Art at Birkbeck: Spring 2018
All this term’s seminars take place in the History of Art Department at Birkbeck (43, Gordon Sq., London WC1H 0PD) in Room 114 (The Keynes Library) at 5pm. Talks finish by 5.50pm (allowing those with other commitments to leave) and are then followed by discussion and refreshments. This term’s papers are as follows : 17 January: Carol Richardson BritonsContinue reading “Murray Seminars on Medieval and Renaissance Art at Birkbeck: Spring 2018”
Exhibition: The Medieval World at our Fingertips: Manuscript Illuminations from the Collection of Sandra Hindman, Art Institute of Chicago (27 Jan – 28 May 2018)
The Art Institute of Chicago, Allerton Galleries, January 27th to May 28th The Art Institute of Chicago will exhibit this impressive and broad-ranging collection of approximately thirty exquisite fragments, which was assembled over a lifetime by medieval manuscript scholar and long-time Chicagoan, Sandra Hindman.
CFP: 12th Conference of Iconographic Studies: Iconography of Pain, Rijeka (Croatia), May 31 – June 01, 2018
Call for Papers: 12th Conference of Iconographic Studies: Iconography of Pain, Rijeka (Croatia), May 31 – June 01, 2018 Deadline: 20 January 2018 The conference seeks to explore and discuss recent development in the dialogue between art history, history, theology, philosophy, cultural theory and other relevant disciplines concerning the representation and perception of pain (bothContinue reading “CFP: 12th Conference of Iconographic Studies: Iconography of Pain, Rijeka (Croatia), May 31 – June 01, 2018”
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