Author Archives: Roisin Astell

CFP: ‘La sculpture monumentale médiévale à l’épreuve du musée: enjeux, conceptions, réceptions’, deadline 1 March 2025

The Musée du Louvre, the Musée des Augustins in Toulouse, the Université de Toulouse, and the research group Patrimoines en partage are organising two events focusing on the challenges of presenting sculptures from mostly vanished religious buildings in the permanent collections of museums.

Online Lecture: ‘Luxury for All? Jewelry and People in the East Roman Empire’, with Georgios Makris, 11 March 2025, 4pm (GMT)

Join this online lecture with Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art & Culture, where Dr Georgios Makris (University of British Columbia) explores issues of taste in the East Roman Empire.

Murray Seminar: ‘Nicola and Giovanni Pisano at the Fontana Maggiore in Perugia’ with Laura Jacobus, 19 March 2025 (5-6.30pm GMT)

Join the March Murray Seminar with Laura Jacobus will share her research on A ‘Most Pleasing Flower among Equally Excellent Sculptors’: Nicola and Giovanni Pisano at the Fontana Maggiore in Perugia.

Online Lecture: Cambridge Medieval Art Seminar, ‘Playing with Fools?’ with Dr Krisztina Ilko, 17 February 2025 (5-6:30pm, GMT)

Join the second Cambridge Medieval Art Seminar of 2025, Krisztina Ilko (Queens’ College, University of Cambridge) will speak on her new research project on medieval chess pieces.

CFP: ‘From Taxonomy to Fluxus: Nordic art at the borders between Medieval and Early Modern’, NORDIK 2025, deadline 28 February 2025

Abstracts are invited for the session ‘From Taxonomy to Fluxus: Nordic art at the borders between Medieval and Early Modern’ for the October 2025 NORDIK conference.

New Publication: ‘Representations of Saint Anne and the Virgin Mary from the Middle Ages to the Early Modern Period: Exploring Iconographic Flexibility and Permeability’, edited by Andrea-Bianka Znorovszky 

This volume traces the often significant iconographic flexibility in terms of both how the Virgin Mary and Saint Anne were presented and perceived, and what can be termed a permeability between visual representations of the two saints.

Conference: ‘IBERSAINTS: Making and Remaking Saints in the Iberian Peninsula and Beyond during the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period c. 600-1600’, Universidad de Salamanca, 24-26 March 2025

This international conference explores the means of constructing and reconstructing saints in and beyond the Iberian Peninsula.

Murray Seminar: ‘Leonardo and Melzi: the role of illustrations in the composition and creation of meaning in the Libro di pittura’ with Juliana Barone, 12 February 2025 (5-6.30pm GMT)

This month’s Murray Seminar is with Dr Juliana Barone, who is presenting their research on Libro di pittura di M. Lionardo da Vinci pittore et scultore fiorentino.