Cambridge Medieval Art Seminar Series, 2013-2014

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2014 marks the 35th anniversary of Jean Bony’s “The English Decorated Style: Gothic Architecture Transformed” (Ithaca, 1979), and so the seminar series in 2013-14 will revisit the subject of English architectural style in the century ca. 1250-1350. During the Michaelmas Term the seminars take place fortnightly on Tuesdays in the Graduate Centre, 4A Trumpington Street. The presentations start at 5.30pm and are followed by discussion and refreshments. Everyone is most welcome to attend.

The schedule for the Michaelmas Term is:

22 October     Paul Binski (University of Cambridge)

Jean Bony and the Decorated Style

5 November    Maximilian Wemhöner (University of Heidelberg)

English Influences on Princely Building and Patronage in Fourteenth-Century Germany

19 November   Andrew Budge (Birkbeck University of London)

Early 14th-Century Collegiate Churches: architectural change as a social process?

3 December      Jeffrey Miller (Independent Scholar, London)

Decorated Yorkshire Revisited: Experiment and Regionalism in English Gothic

http://www.hoart.cam.ac.uk/seminars/medievalartseminars

CFP: ‘Boundaries in Medieval Art and Architecture’, The Courtauld 19th Annual Medieval Postgraduate Colloquium 2014, deadline 22 November 2013

Event to take place: Saturday 1 February 2014
The Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 0RN

This colloquium aims to question the assumption that medieval art was governed by categories and boundaries by highlighting the fluidity and flexibility that existed within art and architecture at the time. The colloquium will explore the issue of the creation and articulation of boundaries, and how art ventured to transgress visual, architectural, and cultural divisions. This can include conventions and their adaptations both within one specific medieval culture, such as Islamic or Byzantine, or in a wider, trans-regional context. Participants are invited to interpret boundaries in the wider sense of the word, encompassing geographical locations, artistic media, architectural spaces, or cultural traditions, and to examine their visual and spatial subversion. This theme can be expanded to include questions of in-betweenness and hybridity, where boundaries are kept intact or become blurred without being fully discarded.

Possible topics may include, but are not limited to:

  • architectural boundaries and their significance or violation
  • geographical and cultural boundaries
  • transgression of artistic media
  • visual representations of boundaries
  • in-betweenness and hybridity
  • the visual articulation of liminality and marginality

The Medieval Colloquium offers the opportunity for Research Students at all levels from universities across the UK and abroad to present and promote their research. We cannot fund travel for speakers, and therefore students from outside London are encouraged to apply to their institutions for subsidies to attend the colloquium.
Please send proposals for 15 to 20-minute papers of no more than 250 words and a CV to lara.frentrop@courtauld.ac.uk and maria.rossi@courtauld.ac.uk no later than Friday 22 November 2013.

Updates to the Courtauld Gothic Ivories Project

842c7f1b9abba1df88e72283c744c5b2ddfef182[1]The Gothic Ivories team is delighted to announce that 700 ‘new’ ivory carvings from over 60 different collections are now available online as part of the Gothic Ivories website! (www.gothicivories.courtauld.ac.uk)

Highlights include the Musei Vaticani in Rome, the Schnütgen Museum in Cologne, The Burrell Collection in Glasgow, the Bonnefanten Museum in Maastricht, important collections in Madrid such as the Fundación Lázaro Galdiano and the Instituto Valencia de Don Juan, Scandinavian collections, from Copenhagen to Oslo, and from Stockholm to Lund, the Museo di Capodimonte and Museo di Duca di Martina in Naples, the Czartoryski Museum in Cracow, the Museum of Applied Arts in Budapest, the Musée de l’Hôtel Sandelin in Saint-Omer, as well as many smaller and unexpected collections in Brie-Comte-Robert, Capri, etc.!

The Project was launched in October 2008 at the Courtauld Institute of Art.
It consists of an online database of ivory sculptures made in Western Europe ca. 1200-ca. 1530, as well as neo-Gothic pieces.

Study Day: Monumental Brass Society, Lingfield Church study day, 28 September 2013

The Monumental Brass Society are holding a study day at Lingfield Church in Surrey on the 28th September 2013. The speakers will be Nigel Saul and Clive Burgess.

The cost is £25.00 for members and £40.00 for non-members. A special concessionary
rate of £15.00 is available for full-time registered students. Lunch is not included.

More information, including an itinerary and how to reserve a place, is available in this flyer.

Lecture: ‘The Ranworth rood screen’, Paul Mellon Centre, London, 20th November 2013 at 5:45pm

As the Paul Mellon Centre for British Art continues to increasingly expand their focus beyond the eighteenth century, the first in a planned series of One Object, Three Voices will focus on the spectacular painted rood screen at Ranworth. The church, a short distance outside Norwich, is outstanding even among the screens of the county as a survival showing remarkable completeness of its imagery and exceedingly high quality artistry.

The three voices will be a conservator, an art historian and the rector of the church itself:
Lucy Wrapson (Hamilton-Kerr Institute)
Paul Binski (University of Cambridge)
Nicholas Gerrard (St Mary’s, Ranworth)

The lecture will take place at the Paul Mellon Centre, 16 Bedford Square (Tubes Russell Square, Holborn or Tottenham Court Rd.) on the 20th November 2013 at 5:45pm.

Advance booking is essential: email Ella Fleming, on efleming@paul-mellon-centre.ac.uk, at least two days in advance.

Lecture: Stained Glass Museum Annual Lecture, Art Worker’s Guild London, 24 July 2013 6pm

The director of the York Glaziers’ Trust, Sarah Brown will be giving this year’s annual lecture for the Ely Stained Glass Museum in London. The topic of the paper will be “‘The conservation of a medieval master-piece: John Thorntonʼs stained glass Apocalypse in York Minster“.

The lecture will begin at 6pm at Art Worker’s Guild, 6 Queen Square, Bloomsbury, London, WCLN 1AT (Tube Russell Square)

Tickets are £6.50 advance and £8 on the door. Phone 01353 660347 or email info@stainedglassmuseum.com to book.

Click to access SGMAnnualLecture2013.pdf