Celtic Revivals: Authenticity and Identity Conference British Museum, January 16 – 17, 2016 Although the Celtic Revival is usually associated with the late 19th century, this conference will demonstrate how it constitutes a whole series of revivals, beginning in the medieval period and continuing into the modern. Leading art and design historians, archaeologists and curators will presentContinue reading “Conference: Celtic Revivals: Authenticity and Identity Conference, London 16-17 January 2016”
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Seminar: Professor Jean-Claude Schmitt on ‘Les rythmes au Moyen Âge (Rhythms in the Middle Ages)’ Monday 18 January 2016
The first UCL Iinterdisciplinary Medieval And Renaissance Seminar of 2016 will be held at 6.15pm Monday 18 January 2016. Professor Jean-Claude Schmitt will be presenting his new book, Les rythmes au Moyen Âge (Rhythms in the Middle Ages). Unlike previous UCL IMARS seminars this will take place in the Institute of Advanced Studies, UCL in the Common Ground, South Wing,Continue reading “Seminar: Professor Jean-Claude Schmitt on ‘Les rythmes au Moyen Âge (Rhythms in the Middle Ages)’ Monday 18 January 2016”
Lecture: Professor Robert Bork, “Drawings and the Transmission of Geometrical Knowledge across Time, Space, and Media”
Tuesday 24 November 2015 – 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm The Sackler Research Forum Seminar Room, The Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House, Strand, London, WC2R 0RN Open to all, no booking required! In this talk Robert Bork will consider Gothic architectural drawings as vehicles for the transmission of geometrical information, placing their development inContinue reading “Lecture: Professor Robert Bork, “Drawings and the Transmission of Geometrical Knowledge across Time, Space, and Media””
Lecture Series: Robert Branner Forum for Medieval Art, Columbia University
Robert Branner (1927-1973) was an art historian specializing in Gothic architecture and manuscript illumination. Active as an excavator, he made important discoveries in the chronology and style of French cathedrals, incorporating cultural historical tools into the method of design analysis that had more traditionally dominated architectural history. Branner is remembered through the Robert Branner Forum,Continue reading “Lecture Series: Robert Branner Forum for Medieval Art, Columbia University”
Myths of Medieval Spain. Symposium, Courtauld Institute, 11 March
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Myths of Medieval Spain. Symposium, Research Forum, Courtauld Institute of Art, 2-6.30, Weds 11 March 2015. Attendance is free, but spaces are limited so you must register Four papers offer new ideas on a group of well-known sculptures and manuscripts from twelfth- and thirteenth-century Spain, exploring tensions between local and international…
Call for Papers: Seals and Status 800 – 1700 (British Museum 4-6 Dec 2015)
Quo asserente se sigillum habere, subridens vir illustris, ‘Moris’, inquit, ‘antiquitus non erat quemlibet militulum sigillum habere, quod regibus et precipuis tantum competit personis…’ He answered that he had a seal. The great man smiled. ‘It was not the custom in the past’, he said, ‘for every petty knight to have a seal. They areContinue reading “Call for Papers: Seals and Status 800 – 1700 (British Museum 4-6 Dec 2015)”
CFP: Agency of Things: New Perspectives on European Art of the Fourteenth–Sixteenth Centuries (Warsaw, 11 – 12 June 2015)
Call for Papers: Agency of Things: New Perspectives on European Art of the Fourteenth – Sixteenth Centuries Warsaw, 11 – 12 June 2015 Deadline: 30 November 2014 Co-organized by Institute of History of Art, University of Warsaw and National Museum in Warsaw. Invited speakers: Prof. Susie Nash (The Courtauld Institute of Art, London) Prof. AndrewContinue reading “CFP: Agency of Things: New Perspectives on European Art of the Fourteenth–Sixteenth Centuries (Warsaw, 11 – 12 June 2015)”
CFP: Domestic Devotions in the Early Modern World, 1400-1800 (Cambridge, 9-11 July 2015)
Call for Papers: Domestic Devotions in the Early Modern World, 1400-1800. University of Cambridge, 9-11 July 2015 Deadline: 7 January 2015 Across faiths and regions and throughout the world, the home was a centre for devotion in the early modern period. Holy books, prayer mats, candlesticks, inscriptions, icons, altars, figurines of saints and deities, paintings, prints and textilesContinue reading “CFP: Domestic Devotions in the Early Modern World, 1400-1800 (Cambridge, 9-11 July 2015)”
Conference: Faltbilder/Foldable Pictures (Zürich, 21-22 November 2014)
Conference: Faltbilder. Medienspezifika klappbarer Bildträger. Foldable Pictures. Implications of Mediality. University of Zürich, 21-22 November 2014 Organisation David Ganz (Universität Zürich) Marius Rimmele (NCCR Mediality, Universität Zürich) Book pages, diptychs, and triptychs were popular formats for the presentation of images in the medieval and early modern periods. In addition to their ubiquity, these objects also share oneContinue reading “Conference: Faltbilder/Foldable Pictures (Zürich, 21-22 November 2014)”
Conference: In centro et oculis urbis nostrae. La chiesa e il monastero di San Zaccaria (Venice, 27-29 November 2014)
Conference: In centro et oculis urbis nostrae. La chiesa e il monastero di San Zaccaria Venice, 27 – 29 November 2014 Curated by Bernard Aikema, Massimo Mancini, Paola Modesti The Studium Generale Marcianum is proud to present the symposium dedicated to the Church and Monastery of San Zaccaria in Venice. This is the fourth of a series of conferencesContinue reading “Conference: In centro et oculis urbis nostrae. La chiesa e il monastero di San Zaccaria (Venice, 27-29 November 2014)”
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