An international colloquium entitled ‘Shared Invention: From Antiquity to the 21st Century’ will be held 6–8 April 2016, and proposals for papers are now being accepted. The colloquium is being organized by Laurence Riviale and Jean-François Luneau, lecturers at Blaise Pascal University, Clermont-Ferrand (France), in partnership with Musée national Adrien Dubouché, Limoges (France) and CitéContinue reading “Call for Papers: ‘Shared Invention: From Antiquity to the 21st Century’ (Clermont-Ferrand, Aubusson and Limoges, 6–8 April 2016)”
Category Archives: Conferences
Image Matter: Art and Materiality (Manchester, November 6, 2015)
Call for papers deadline: Aug 1, 2015 Image Matter: Art and Materiality AAH New Voices Conference MIRIAD, Manchester Metropolitan University 6 November 2015 Keynote: Professor Carol Mavor (University of Manchester) How do art historians interpret matter? And how about artists, makers, theorists and critics? Much recent art historical and visual culture literature has argued forContinue reading “Image Matter: Art and Materiality (Manchester, November 6, 2015)”
Conference: Frankfurt als Zentrum unter Zentren? Kunsttransfer und Formgenese am Mittelrhein 1400 – 1500 (Frankfurt, Historisches Museum, 5-6 June 2015)
Die Auf- und Abwertung der „Kunstlandschaft“ als Terminus operandi ist ein Dauerthema der Kunstgeschichte. So fragte die ältere Diskussion der Kunst am Mittelrhein beispielsweise vor allem danach, wie der Mittelrhein als Kunstlandschaft geografisch zu bestimmen und die „mittelrheinische Kunst“ formal zu spezifizieren sei. Die Entwicklung der spätgotischen Kunst am Mittelrhein, die bekanntlich von wiederholtem, strukturellemContinue reading “Conference: Frankfurt als Zentrum unter Zentren? Kunsttransfer und Formgenese am Mittelrhein 1400 – 1500 (Frankfurt, Historisches Museum, 5-6 June 2015)”
Neue Forschungen zur Wandmalerei des Mittelalters (Paderborn, 10 June 2015)
Wandmalereien gehören zu den aussagekräftigsten, aber auch fragilsten und fernsten Gegenständen unter den künstlerischen Hinterlassenschaften des Mittelalters. Von der Aufnahme von Befunden über die Dokumentation bis zur Deutung und Kontextualisierung stellt die Wandmalerei die Forschung vor besonders schwierige Aufgaben. Wo die Kunst des Mittelalters diskutiert wird – sei es in wissenschaftlichen und politischen Foren, imContinue reading “Neue Forschungen zur Wandmalerei des Mittelalters (Paderborn, 10 June 2015)”
Giotto’s Circle Presents Berlin Remixed: Papers on Italian Art and Architecture from the RSA Conference.
After the recent Renaissance Society of America conference in Berlin, the Courtauld will be hosting an opportunity for those who could not see he papers – whether due to session clash or not attending the conference – in the, Research Forum Seminar Room, 30 April, 10.00 am – 6.00 pm. 10.00 – 11.30: SPACES ANDContinue reading “Giotto’s Circle Presents Berlin Remixed: Papers on Italian Art and Architecture from the RSA Conference.”
Conference: Holy Bodies, Sacred Spaces (York, 2 May 2015)
University of York Berrick Saul Building Bowland Auditorium The praesentia of holy bodies, the material remains of saints, is a seminal aspect of late antique and medieval Christianity and has long received scholarly attention. The art-historical debate on the eleventh and twelfth centuries has focused, in particular, on pilgrimage, from the monumental 1923 monograph byContinue reading “Conference: Holy Bodies, Sacred Spaces (York, 2 May 2015)”
Trading Places: Byzantium and the Mediterranean World in the Later Middle Ages (Harvard University and First Church in Cambridge, 16-17 April 2015)
The Mediterranean basin has long been a zone of cultural, economic, and artistic encounter and exchange. This was particularly true in the Middle Ages (c. 500-1500 CE), as the three great religious traditions of Late Antiquity (Christianity, Judaism, and Islam) battled, bartered with, and borrowed from one another in a variety of political and culturalContinue reading “Trading Places: Byzantium and the Mediterranean World in the Later Middle Ages (Harvard University and First Church in Cambridge, 16-17 April 2015)”
Conference: Simone Martini e il suo polittico per i domenicani di Pisa (Pisa and Florence, 27-28 April 2015)
Convegno internazionale ideato da Maria Monica Donato in collaborazione tra il Museo Nazionale di San Matteo (Pisa), la Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, l’Università degli Studi di Firenze – Dipartimento SAGAS e il Kunsthistorisches Instituts in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut Il recente restauro del polittico di Simone Martini per l’altare maggiore di Santa Caterina a PisaContinue reading “Conference: Simone Martini e il suo polittico per i domenicani di Pisa (Pisa and Florence, 27-28 April 2015)”
Conference: Miracoli ‘di carta’ e miracoli dipinti: testi e immagini del prodigioso in Italia tra XIV e XVIII secolo (9 April 2015)
Istituto Sangalli, Piazza San Firenze, 3 April 9, 2015 Miracoli ‘di carta’ e miracoli dipinti: testi e immagini del prodigioso in Italia tra XIV e XVIII secolo Seminario interdisciplinare di studi Presiede SOFIA BOESCH GAJANO (Università di Roma Tre) 10:30 MAURIZIO SANGALLI (Istituto Sangalli) Vent’anni dopo. A mo’ d’introduzione 11:00 MARCO FAINI (University of Cambridge)Continue reading “Conference: Miracoli ‘di carta’ e miracoli dipinti: testi e immagini del prodigioso in Italia tra XIV e XVIII secolo (9 April 2015)”
Reading, Scholarship and the Art of the Book at Reading Abbey (Reading University, 17 April 2015)
Reading University, Henley Business School, Whiteknights Campus, Room G10 17 April 2015, from 10am Cost: £15 (including coffee, lunch, tea and wine); £10 for students and unwaged. Please register by contacting GCMS@reading.ac.uk. Programme 10.00 registration and welcome 10.15-11.15 – Session 1: Lindy Grant (Reading); ‘Reading Abbey in a cultural and intellectual, international context’. Tessa WebberContinue reading “Reading, Scholarship and the Art of the Book at Reading Abbey (Reading University, 17 April 2015)”
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