An international conference on ‘New Perspectives on Personifications in Roman, Late Antique and Early Byzantine Art (200-800 AD)’ takes place at LMU Munich on January 26th and 27th, 2024. We are pleased to be able to support the initiative of Prolet Decheva and Charles Wastiau.
The conference takes place in Katharina-von-Bora-Str. 10 in the large lecture hall (R. 242). The lectures can also be followed via live stream. All times are according to CET.
Download the conference program here.
To attend online, please register in advance:
Day 1 and Day 2.
The conference is organised by Institut für Byzantinistik, Byzantinische Kunstgeschichte und Neogräzistik, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München with the kind support of Spätantike Archäologie und Byzantinische Kunstgeschichte e.V and LMU Münchner Zentrum für Antike Welten.
Contact:
- Charles Wastiau: Cwastiau@uliege.be
- Prolet Decheva: prolet.decheva@ucdconnect.ie
Conference Program
Friday, 26 January 2024
13:15 – 13:30 Introduction
13:30 – 14:00 Anna-Laura Honikel, Goethe University Frankfurt a.M.:
Personifications on Mosaics of the Province Lusitania
14:00 – 14:30 Sarah Hollaender, University of Graz:
Visualizing ‘Manliness’: The Goddess Virtus and Her Transformations in Late Antiquity
14:30 – 15:00 Giovanna Ferri, University of Sassari:
Seasons Personifications in the Decorative Programs of Roman Catacombs and Privately-Owned Hypogea in Late Antiquity: Felicitas Temporum and Heavenly Aeternitas
15:00 – 15:30 Break
15:30 – 16:00 Caroline Bridel, University of Bern:
The Use of Personifications in Late Antique Jewish Spaces: Establishing a Cultural Frame?
16:00 – 16:30 Amélie Belleli, INRAP/University of Limoges:
Late Roman Empresses as Allegorical Figures
16:30 – 17:00 Prolet Decheva, University College Dublin:
Personifications of Abstract Ideas and Proper Names
18:00 – 19:00 KEYNOTE LECTURE: Emma Stafford, University of Leeds:
Nemesis: A Greek Personification in the Later Roman World
Saturday, 27 January 2024
09:00 – 09:30 Annegret Klünker, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin:
Coining Embodied Conditions: The Severan Era as Synopsis for the Visual Emergence of Personifications in Rome
09:30 – 10:00 Charles Wastiau, University of Liège/University of Bonn:
The End of the „Divine Qualities“ on Late Roman Coins
10:00 – 10:30 Pavla Gkantzios Drápelová, Czech Academy of Sciences:
The Last Echoes of Tyche Poleos on Byzantine Coins: Several Cases from the 6th Century
10:30 – 11:00 Break
11:00 – 11:30 Amel Bouder, Freie Universität Berlin/Deutsches Archäologisches Institut:
The Multiple Personifications of Saturnus the African God and his Assessors: an Allegory between the River God and the Master of the Universe
11:30 – 12:00 Julian Hollaender, Landesamt für Denkmalpflege Baden-Württemberg:
Greetings from the Jordan River: The Anthropomorphic River in Early Christian Baptismal Representations
12:00 – 12:30 Natalia Turabelidze, Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University:
Classical Prototypes in Medieval Georgian Mural Painting: The Evidence of Ateni Sioni Murals
12:30 Conclusions
Medieval Art Research 