Leuven, Belgium, June 18 – 28, 2017 Deadline: Nov 30, 2016 Several Flemish research centres, universities and art museums collaboratively organise the third edition of the Summer Course for the Study of the Arts in Flanders in the summer of 2017. After the success of the two previous editions with a focus on Jan van EyckContinue reading “ANN: Summer Course: Study of the Arts in Flanders (Leuven, 18-29 June 2017)”
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Cambridge Medieval Art Seminar Series: ‘Craft, Process, Techne’, 2016-2017
The University of Cambridge Senior Seminar in Medieval Art meets every other week during full term, attracting an impressive range of speakers from home and abroad. The Department of the History of Art is pleased to announce the programme for the annual Medieval Art Seminar Series 2016-17. The seminars will explore ideas of craft andContinue reading “Cambridge Medieval Art Seminar Series: ‘Craft, Process, Techne’, 2016-2017”
Exhibition: A Feast for the Senses: Art and Experience in Medieval Europe, Walters Art Museum, 16 October 2016 – 8 January 2017
Walters Presents A Feast for the Senses: Art and Experience in Medieval Europe Features more than 100 objects from world-renowned collections Baltimore, MD – The Walters Art Museum presents A Feast for the Senses: Art and Experience in Medieval Europe, a major international loan exhibition that brings together more than 100 works including stained glass, precious metals, ivories,Continue reading “Exhibition: A Feast for the Senses: Art and Experience in Medieval Europe, Walters Art Museum, 16 October 2016 – 8 January 2017”
New Publications: Romanesque Cathedrals in Mediterranean Europe
Romanesque Cathedrals in Mediterranean Europe: Architecture, Ritual and Urban Context Boto Varela, J. E.A. Kroesen (eds.) Brepols Publishers This volume explores the architecture and layout of Romanesque cathedrals in Europe, especially around the Mediterranean, paying special attention to liturgical ritual, church furnishings, iconography, and urban context. The architecture, interior settings and urban environment of RomanesqueContinue reading “New Publications: Romanesque Cathedrals in Mediterranean Europe”
New Publications
Viewing Greece: Cultural and Political Agency in the Medieval and Early Modern Mediterranean SEJ Gerstel (ed.) Brepols Publishers Multidisciplinary, geographically broad, and diachronic in scope, the papers in this volume consider the cultural and political agency of Greece as part of the late antique world, the Byzantine Empire, and the early modern Mediterranean. DerivingContinue reading “New Publications”
CfP: Bodies in flux: Rewriting the Body in Medieval Literature, Art, and Culture 1000-1450, University of Warwick, 20th May 2017,
Deadline for abstract submission: 15th December 2016 Keynote Speakers: Dr Miranda Griffin (St Catharine’s College, Cambridge), Dr Robert Mills (UCL), Dr Debra Strickland (University of Glasgow) What is it to have a body? And to experience change and transformation through that body? This interdisciplinary conference asks what the transformation of the body means for theContinue reading “CfP: Bodies in flux: Rewriting the Body in Medieval Literature, Art, and Culture 1000-1450, University of Warwick, 20th May 2017,”
Conference: Textile Gifts in the Middle Ages (Rome, 3-5 November 2016)
Gifts of textiles and clothing appeared in diverse contexts and fulfilled various functions in pre-modern Europe. They could be offered in the course of an initiation rite and or an act of social transition, including upon investiture, marriage, or entry into a monastery. Gifts of clothing to the poor, meanwhile, were among the works of charity thematized in theContinue reading “Conference: Textile Gifts in the Middle Ages (Rome, 3-5 November 2016)”
Seminar: The Digital Pilgrim Project 19th October 2016
Please join us at the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art on the evening of the 19th October. The seminar will discuss the Digital Pilgrim Project and the art historical/museological potential of digital technologies. http://www.paul-mellon-centre.ac.uk/whats-on/forthcoming/digital-pilgrim-project The Digital Pilgrim Project is digitising the British Museum’s collection of medieval badges and 3D imaging a selection. TheContinue reading “Seminar: The Digital Pilgrim Project 19th October 2016”
Conference: al-Murabitun (Granada, 19-22 October 2016)
Palace of Charles V, Alhambra (Granada, Spain), October 19 – 22, 2016 Between 19th and 22nd October 2016, in the Palace of Charles V of the Alhambra in Granada, will be held the International Seminar “al-Murabitun. Noveno centenario del esplendor de un Imperio”, in memory of Professor Henri Terrasse. During the Seminar, many scholars from France, Morocco, United States, SpainContinue reading “Conference: al-Murabitun (Granada, 19-22 October 2016)”
Seminar: ‘Talking Back to Power? Art and Political Opinion in Early Fourteenth-Century England’ with Dr Laura Slater, Murray Research Seminar at Birkbeck, 29 June 2016, 17.50pm
‘Spin’ and reputation management were an established part of medieval politics. Laura Slater explores the role of art and architecture in challenging political ideas and opinions in early fourteenth-century England, focussing on the activities of Queen Isabella of France during the 1320s. Successful in invading England, deposing her husband Edward II and establishing herself asContinue reading “Seminar: ‘Talking Back to Power? Art and Political Opinion in Early Fourteenth-Century England’ with Dr Laura Slater, Murray Research Seminar at Birkbeck, 29 June 2016, 17.50pm”
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