Author Archives: Roisin Astell

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.

Conference: ‘Les arts de l’autel médiéval: De la genèse des objets aux stratégies muséographiques’, Paris EHESS / Musée du Louvre, 3-5 February 2025 

Learn more about the intricate relationship between medieval altars and their artistic adornments at the Paris EHESS/Louvre Museum conference from February 3-5, 2025.