1 May, Cristina Guarnieri, University of Padua The Stories of St. Lucy by Jacobello del Fiore, and Venetian folding reliquary altarpieces The Stories of St. Lucy by Jacobello del Fiore are one of the masterpieces of Italian Late Gothic painting, but their function has been little understood. Re-evaluating prevailing theories about the panels’ purpose and display, this paper proposes that theyContinue reading “Lecture Series: Murray Seminars at Birkbeck University, London, Summer Term 2018”
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Lecture Series: London Society for Medieval Studies Summer Term 2018 Lecture Series
List of upcoming lectures with the London Society for Medieval Studies Venue: Wolfson Room NB01, Basement, IHR, North block, Senate House unless otherwise stated Time: Tuesdays 19:00 Chair: Stephen Spencer (stephen.spencer@sas.ac.uk) Joint secretaries: Ella Kilgallon Treasurer: Giorgio Lizzul Committee: Ella Kilgallon, Anaïs Waag, Helen Rampton, Emma Knowles, Calum Cockburn, Karel Fraaije Summer Term 2018 17 April 19:00 – The Royal Anglo-Saxon Burials ofContinue reading “Lecture Series: London Society for Medieval Studies Summer Term 2018 Lecture Series”
Coll & Cortes Medieval Spain Seminar Series: Images, devotion and emotion in 13th- and 14th-century Castile (18 April 2018)
What was the role of images in the religious experience of Castilian people of the 13th and 14th centuries? There is no clear answer, and the scarcity of written evidence has prompted much problematic speculation. However, on the basis of the images themselves and of relevant literary sources, including the well-known Cantigas de Santa María and works by 14th-centuryContinue reading “Coll & Cortes Medieval Spain Seminar Series: Images, devotion and emotion in 13th- and 14th-century Castile (18 April 2018)”
Lecture Series: British Archaeological Association, Spring 2018
The British Archaeological Association is delighted to announce our upcoming lectures: 7 March – ‘Awake thou that sleepest: The Resurrection of Mary Magdalene in Central Europe’ by Dr Zoe Opacic 4 April – ‘Bridgwater Friary: A provincial town and the Franciscan friars in late medieval Somerset’ by Dr Hannah Wesyt 2 May – ‘ InventingContinue reading “Lecture Series: British Archaeological Association, Spring 2018”
Lecture Emmanuele Lugli “Chasing Absence: The Body of Christ and the Measures to Enter in Touch with it” 17:00 13/02/2018 Birkbeck
This talk focuses on the singular devotion for the ‘mensura Christi,’ or the act of praying with objects that reproduced the height of Christ. It explores the reasons for its phenomenal success, from its diffusion in the twelfth century up to its ban in the seventeenth, and the motives for its marginalization in historical accountsContinue reading “Lecture Emmanuele Lugli “Chasing Absence: The Body of Christ and the Measures to Enter in Touch with it” 17:00 13/02/2018 Birkbeck”
Lecture: Un trésor de l’Arsenal : la Bible de Saint-Jean d’Acre
6 février 2018 – 18h15-19h30 Galerie Colbert, auditorium Institut national d’histoire de l’art 2, rue Vivienne ou 6 rue des Petits Champs 75002 Paris Lorsque Saint Louis s’installe à Saint-Jean d’Acre entre 1250 et 1254, la cité cosmopolite où se côtoient chrétiens, juifs et musulmans, est la ville la plus florissante du Royaume latin de Jérusalem. MaisContinue reading “Lecture: Un trésor de l’Arsenal : la Bible de Saint-Jean d’Acre”
Re-opening the Workshop: Medieval to Early Modern (London, 31 Jan-27 Jun 18)
Warburg Institute, Woburn Square, London WC1H 0AB, January 31 – June 27, 2018 Re-opening the Workshop: Medieval to Early Modern Workshop and workshop practices represent a core and dynamic research strand in the history of art. This strand encompasses the study of canonical artists but equally of the anonymous producers whose activities can be deduced from the survivingContinue reading “Re-opening the Workshop: Medieval to Early Modern (London, 31 Jan-27 Jun 18)”
Lecture: Felipe Pereda, ‘Images’ Oblivious Memory: Funerary Laments from Ancient Greece to El Greco’. Courtauld Institute of Art, London, 4pm, Thursday 25th January, 2018
Felipe Pereda (Harvard), will give the inaugural lecture for the 2018-19 Coll & Cortes Medieval Spain Seminar Series at 4pm on Thursday 25th January in the Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre of the Courtauld Institute of Art, London. An old narrative tradition going back to Ancient Egypt but documented across the Mediterranean – from the MiddleContinue reading “Lecture: Felipe Pereda, ‘Images’ Oblivious Memory: Funerary Laments from Ancient Greece to El Greco’. Courtauld Institute of Art, London, 4pm, Thursday 25th January, 2018”
Murray Seminars on Medieval and Renaissance Art at Birkbeck: Spring 2018
All this term’s seminars take place in the History of Art Department at Birkbeck (43, Gordon Sq., London WC1H 0PD) in Room 114 (The Keynes Library) at 5pm. Talks finish by 5.50pm (allowing those with other commitments to leave) and are then followed by discussion and refreshments. This term’s papers are as follows : 17 January: Carol Richardson BritonsContinue reading “Murray Seminars on Medieval and Renaissance Art at Birkbeck: Spring 2018”
Medieval Art Research 