Mary of Guelders’ richly illuminated prayer book, written by Helmich die Lewe and completed in 1415, is extraordinary for several reasons: it originally consisted of more than 600 folia, it is richly illuminated, it was written in the Lower Rhine vernacular, and it contains an unusual compilation of prayers, hours and components of a breviary.Continue reading “Call for Papers: Mary of Guelders – Her Life and Prayer Book (ca. 1400) – Nijmegen, 23-24/11/2018 (Deadline 30/03/2018)”
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New Publication: San Michele in Monte Laureto a Putignano. La grotta dell’Angelo e la cultura pittorica angioina nel meridione barese, by Marcello Mignozzi
A new book on the theme of Angevin Art in Southern Italy has just been published. In San Michele in Monte Laureto a Putignano. La grotta dell’Angelo e la cultura pittorica angioina nel meridione barese, Marcello Mignozzi reconstructs the history of the rupestrian church of Saint Michael in Monte Laureto in Putignano (Apulia), Italy, investigatingContinue reading “New Publication: San Michele in Monte Laureto a Putignano. La grotta dell’Angelo e la cultura pittorica angioina nel meridione barese, by Marcello Mignozzi”
Call for Papers: ‘On Monumentality’, Acropolis Museum, Athens, 4-6 of April, 2019 (Deadline 15/06/2018)
A century separates us from the “rupture of history” and the historical ambiguities that the early heroic modernism introduced in the urban space, and eighty years from the destruction of the European monumental deposit from the bombings of WWII, a defining moment for the introduction of new kinds of monumentality alongside the old ones. Yet,Continue reading “Call for Papers: ‘On Monumentality’, Acropolis Museum, Athens, 4-6 of April, 2019 (Deadline 15/06/2018)”
Conference: Gothic Arts: An Interdisciplinary Symposium (Philadelphia, 23-24/03/2018)
Gothic Arts: An Interdisciplinary Symposium Class of 1978 Orrery Pavilion Van Pelt Library University of Pennsylvania March 23rd-24th, 2018 Organizers Mary Caldwell, Department of Music Sarah M. Guérin, Department of the History of Art Ada Kuskowski, Department of History In a passage from Thomas Aquinas’s treatise on good governance, a text written for the CypriotContinue reading “Conference: Gothic Arts: An Interdisciplinary Symposium (Philadelphia, 23-24/03/2018)”
Conference: Die Stuttgarter Apokalypse-Tafeln – Studientag an der Staatsgalerie Stuttgart (Stuttgart, 20/04/2018)
Eine Veranstaltung der Staatsgalerie Stuttgart und des Instituts für Kunstgeschichte der Universität Stuttgart: Zwei Hauptwerke unserer Sammlung waren in den letzten Monaten Gegenstand eines interdisziplinären Forschungsprojekts: die »Stuttgarter Apokalypse-Tafeln«, die um 1332/34 in Neapel geschaffen wurden. Detailreich und originell schildern sie die Visionen der Endzeit aus dem biblischen Buch der Offenbarung. Erstmals haben nun Kunsthistoriker,Continue reading “Conference: Die Stuttgarter Apokalypse-Tafeln – Studientag an der Staatsgalerie Stuttgart (Stuttgart, 20/04/2018)”
New Publication: Manuscripts in the Making Art and Science, vol. 1, edited by Stella Panayotova and Paola Ricciardi
ISBN 978-1-909400-10-8 More Info: http://bit.ly/2ywI3Si This ground-breaking publication presents the papers delivered at the international Conference held in Cambridge in December 2016 to mark the end of the Fitzwilliam Museum’s acclaimed bicentenary exhibition “Colour: The Art and Science of Illuminated Manuscripts”. It is the first of two volumes in which medievalists and scientists share the results ofContinue reading “New Publication: Manuscripts in the Making Art and Science, vol. 1, edited by Stella Panayotova and Paola Ricciardi”
New Journal: Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art, Winter 18 issue
Historians of Netherlandish Art announces the publication of the Winter 2018 issue (vol. 10:1) of the refereed, open-access Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art (jhna.org).
Conference “De l’Espagne à l’Europe du Nord. Les manuscrits enluminés français et flamands de la Bibliothèque nationale d’Espagne (Madrid)”, Lille University, 29/03/2018
Le projet scientifque intitulé De l’Espagne à l’Europe du Nord : les manuscrits français et flamands de la Biblioteca nacional de España (Madrid), dirigé par Anne-Marie Legaré, professeur d’Histoire de l’Art médiéval (IRHiS, UdL) et assistée de Samuel Gras, docteur en Histoire de l’Art médiéval (IRHiS, UdL), repose sur un partenariat inédit entre l’IRHiS, l’Université deContinue reading “Conference “De l’Espagne à l’Europe du Nord. Les manuscrits enluminés français et flamands de la Bibliothèque nationale d’Espagne (Madrid)”, Lille University, 29/03/2018″
Call for Participants: MAIUS Workshop, 13/03/2018, Deadline TODAY
MAIUS Workshop Meeting March 13, 6 – 7:30 Senate House, Rm G21A Please join us for our next meeting of graduate students and early career researchers working on Iberian and Latin American studies! The next Maius Workshop will take place at Senate House (Room G21A, Senate House, Malet St, Bloomsbury, London WC1E 7HU, UK) andContinue reading “Call for Participants: MAIUS Workshop, 13/03/2018, Deadline TODAY”
Event: Archaeometallurgical Medieval Bell Casting in Paderborn 23/06/208/-28/07/2018
Zum 950 jährigen Jubliäum des hohen Domes in Paderborn und zum 1000 jährigen Jubiläum der Bartholomäuskapelle hat mich das Metropolitankapitel Paderborn mit der Aufgabe betraut im Rahmen der lebendigen Dombauhütte eine Bienenkorbglocke des 11. Jahrhunderts zu gießen. Damit hat das Metropolitankapitel die einmalige Gelegenheit geschaffen, der Entstehung einer Bienenkorbglocke des 11. Jahrhunderts beiwohnen zu können.Continue reading “Event: Archaeometallurgical Medieval Bell Casting in Paderborn 23/06/208/-28/07/2018”
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