The seventh in the British Archaeological Association’s Romanesque conference series, Image and Narrative, is taking place at the British School at Rome. It will be available on Zoom. Times for the conference are in Italian (not UK) time
Please click the link to join the webinar which is for each of the days. (Passcode: 886218)
Conference programme
Monday 28 March 2022
Session 1: Chair: Grazia Fachechi
9.30 am Welcome and Introduction
9.45am Serena Romano, Image and Narrative in Rome during the ‘Romanesque’ period: A focus on San Crisogono
10.30am Questions
10.45am Break
11.15am Claudia Quattrocchi, Before Narrative: A multifocal method for mapping mural decoration in Central Italy
11.45am Marcello Angheben, Polysemy and multifunctionality in the apse mosaic at San Clemente: Gregorian reform, liturgy and devotion
12.15pm Questions
13.00pm Break
Session 2: Chair: Alison Perchuk
14.30pm Armin Bergmeier, Linear Time and Narrative in the Anagni Crypt Frescoes
15.00pm Andrea Worm, Narrative and Argument: The Emergence of Typological Cycles in the Twelfth Century
15.30pm Questions
15.45pm Break
Session 3: Chair: Béla Zsolt Szakács
16.15pm Kristin B. Aavitsland, Microarchitecture and Storytelling in Twelfth-Century Scandinavia
16.45pm Bella Arcidiacono, Stories from Genesis at the Palatine Chapel in Palermo and the Cathedral of Monreale: Relations, Interactions, Strategies
17.15pm Questions
Tuesday 29 March 2022
Session 4: Chair: Lindy Grant
9.30am Arturo Carlo Quintavalle, The Commissioning and Politics of Images in Twelfth-Century Northern Italy: From the Investiture Controversy to the Fight against Heresy
10.00am Deborah Kahn, Promoting Conformity: The Role of the Church in the Revival of Sculpture
10.30pm Questions
10.45pm Break
Session 5: Chair: Richard Plant
11.15am Jessica Berenbeim, Letter Forms and Literary Meaning: Script and Inscriptions c.1100
11.45am Robert Maxwell, The Narrative Time of Dreams
12.15pm Manuel Castiñeiras, Narrative Strategies, the Senses and ‘Iter’ at Pilgrimage Sites: Conques, Compostela and Bethlehem
12.45pm Questions
13.15pm Break
Session 6: Chair: Rose Walker
14.30pm Irene Caracciolo, A Comparative Analysis of the ‘tecnica mista’ panel portraits inserted into certain wall paintings in Romanesque Italy
15.00pm Mina Miyamoto, A Problem of Identification in Folio 1v. of the Salzburg Pericopes
15.30pm Questions
15.45pm Break
Session 7: Chair: Barbara Franzé
16.15pm Gaetano Curzi, Nature, Landscape and Hagiography on the façade of San Clemente a Casauria
16.45pm Claude Andrault-Schmit, An Unusual Scenography in the Service of Popular Devotion. The Deathbed Scene at Saint-Hilaire-de-la-Celle in Poitiers
17.15pm Questions
Wednesday 30 March 2022
Session 8: Chair: Manuel Castiñeiras
9.30am Wilfried Keil, The Narrative Frieze of Saint Domninus on the Façade of Fidenza Cathedral
10.00am Carles Sanchez, A Roman Saint in Catalonia: Sant Llorenc Dosmunts and the Shaping of Devotional Images through Romanesque Altar Frontals
10.30am Questions
10.45am Break
11.30am John McNeill, A Narrative of Intercession in the Cloister of Saint-Aubin at Angers
12.00pm Barbara Franzé, Image and Narrative in the Cloister at Moissac in the light of the Consecration Ritual
12.30pm Questions
12.45pm Break
Session 9: Chair: John McNeill
14.30pm Béla Zsolt Szakács, From Rome to Somogyvár: Transforming the Spinario
15.00pm Yael Barash, From Sin to Redemption: Narratives, Abstract Conclusions, and Composition in Hildegard of Bingen’s Illustrations
15.30pm Questions
15.45pm Break
16.15pm Alison Perchuk, Narrative Sequences of the Apocalypse in Romanesque Italy: Location, Function, Structure, Meaning
16.45pm Rose Walker, Old Testament Images in Navarre and Aragon in the Middle of the Twelfth Century: Sites of Theological and Social Tension
17.15pm Questions
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