Author Archives: Roisin Astell

Scholarship: Index of Medieval Art Student Travel Grant, deadline 1 October 2023

For the second year, the Index of Medieval Art is pleased to offer a student travel grant to attend this year’s Index conference, Whose East? Defining, Challenging, and Exploring Eastern Christian Art, on November 11, 2023.

Conference: ‘Reliquary busts between Italy and Europe (XII-XVIth centuries’, 22-24 Sep 2023

This conference follows the exhibition ‘Gold and Silver Portraits exhibition. Medieval reliquaries in Piedmont, Valle d’Aosta, Switzerland and Savoy’.

Call for Proposals: ‘Social Sculpture in the Middle Ages’, Different Visions journal, deadline 1 October 2023

This special issue of Different Visions seeks to address the methodological unity between sensory experience, reader response, and performance studies through the paradigm of “social sculpture.”

Conference: ‘Visualizing Drugs & Dyes. Art and Pharmacology in (Early) Medieval Worlds (600–1400)’, 4-6 Sep 2023, University of Basel

Attend online or in person this wonderful conference all about the role of plants within material practice and medicine.

New Publication: ‘Colors in Medieval Art: Theories, Matter, and Light from Suger to Grosseteste (1100–1250)’, by Alberto Virdis

This book argues that color is and was a central “cultural object” within art history, a fact first elucidated through an examination of the debates and difficulties of color in language, theology, science, and philosophy.