Traditionally interpreted as images of the fight against evil, a reading of these scenes based on Psalm 44 and the Song of Songs, biblical passages alluding to the marriage between Christ and the Church, offers a new perspective on the sculpture program of Santa María la Mayor de Toro.
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Call for Applications: 2023-2024 Predoctoral Research Residencies at the Center for the Art and Architectural History of Port Cities “La Capraia” (Deadline 31 January 2023)
Founded in 2018, the Center for the Art and Architectural History of Port Cities (Centro per la Storia dell’Arte e dell’Architettura delle Città Portuali) is a collaboration between the Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte, the Edith O’Donnell Institute of Art History at the University of Texas at Dallas, Franklin University Switzerland, and the Amici di Capodimonte.
Newberry Library Short-Term Residential Fellowships 2023–2024 (Deadline 15 December 2022)
The Newberry Library is currently accepting applications for Short-Term Residential Fellowships for Individual Research.
New Publication: ‘Inventing Late Antique Reliquaries. Reception, Material History, and Dynamics of Interaction (4th-6th Centuries CE)’ by Adrien Palladino
Tracing the medieval reliquary’s “pre-history”, this volume examines boxes bearing Christian images and patterns made between the fourth to the sixth century CE.
Call for Papers: ‘Lacunae’, 33rd Annual Medieval Studies Colloquium (MSSC), 11 March 2023 (Deadline 15 December 2022)
The Medieval Studies Program at Cornell is pleased to announce the 33rd Annual Medieval Studies Student Colloquium (MSSC), which takes the idea of “Lacunae” as its theme. The conference will be held virtually over Zoom on Saturday, March 11th, 2023.
Lecture: ‘A Beautiful Lie: Medieval Art Forgeries in Catalonia’, Alberto Velasco, Murray Seminar at Birkbeck, 6 December 2022 17:00 GMT
The reasons for the production and commercialization of medieval fakes in Catalonia during the first half of the twentieth century are unique and specific, and they are explained by cultural, political and social conditions that, nevertheless, find points of contact in other parts of Europe.
Fellowship: Kay Fellow in Premodern Disability Studies, Brandeis University (Deadline 15 December 2022)
Brandeis University invites applications for a two-year, non-renewable Florence Levy Kay Fellowship in Premodern Disability Studies.
Study Days: ‘Conques en Rouergue: constructions mémorielles’, 18 and 21 November 2022
These study days are part of the Conques project in the global world supported by the European Research Council.
Call for Applications: Mary Jaharis Center Grants 2023–2024 (Deadline 1 February 2023)
The Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture is pleased to announce its 2023–2024 grant competition.
Funding Opportunity: VAG Winter Conference Bursaries (Deadline 3 December 2022)
The Vernacular Architecture Group is able to offer two bursaries to assist registered students (or
professionals in the early years of their career) to attend the conference. The Committee is aware that
the cost often makes attendance difficult for students and others who might benefit from the lectures
and discussions, and from the opportunity to meet people active in the field. Both full-time and part-
time students are welcome to apply.
Medieval Art Research 