CFP: Presence and InVisibility – Sign-bearing Artefacts in Sacral Spaces (Heidelberg, 23-25 February 2015)

Call for Papers: Presence and InVisibility – Sign-bearing Artefacts in Sacral Spaces International research conference Heidelberg, 23-25 February 2015 Deadline: 15 September 2014 For many cultures sign-bearing artefacts are an immanent component of sacral spaces, which constitute themselves through their presence. This applies to actual specific places, as well as to cultural space in itsContinue reading “CFP: Presence and InVisibility – Sign-bearing Artefacts in Sacral Spaces (Heidelberg, 23-25 February 2015)”

5th International annual conference “Actual Problems of Art Theory and History” 2014

The Departments of Russian Art and West-European Art of the Faculty of History of St. Petersburg State University, the Department of Art Theory and History of the Faculty of History of Lomonosov Moscow State University and The State Hermitage Museum invite you to participate in the 5th International annual conference “Actual Problems of Art TheoryContinue reading “5th International annual conference “Actual Problems of Art Theory and History” 2014”

The experience of sacred places: times and settings (Aguilar de Campo, Spain, Sept 26-28 2014)

with Xavier BARRAL I ALTET, Université de Rennes 2 y Ca’ Foscari de Venecia  Susana CALVO CAPILLA, Universidad Complutense de Madrid  Vincent DEBIAIS, CNRS–Université de Poitiers/CESCM  Rosa RODRÍGUEZ PORTO, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela  Bissera PENTCHEVA, Stanford University. California  Michele BACCI, Universität Freiburg – Suiza  Herbert l. KESSLER, Johns Hopkins University Click here for furtherContinue reading “The experience of sacred places: times and settings (Aguilar de Campo, Spain, Sept 26-28 2014)”

Call for Papers: Medieval Roofing between the Loire and the Meuse, images and techniques

Papers in French, English and Dutch are invited for the international conference ‘Les couvertures monumentales au Moyen Âge entre Loire et Meuse : images et techniques’, Tournai, 22-23 January, 2015. Abstracts and CVs to yves.felix.desmet@spw.wallonie.be by 25 April 2015. 2ème Colloque international Les couvertures monumentales au Moyen Âge entre Loire et Meuse: images et techniquesContinue reading “Call for Papers: Medieval Roofing between the Loire and the Meuse, images and techniques”

Call for Papers: II International Conference. Sevilla, 1514: Arquitectos tardogóticos en la encrucijada

Call for Papers II International Conference. Sevilla, 1514: Arquitectos tardogóticos en la encrucijada Seville, November 12-15, 2014 Deadline: 31 May 2014 After the I International Conference Arquitectura tardogótica en la Corona de Castilla held in Santander in 2010, the II International Conference. Sevilla, 1514: Arquitectos Tardogóticos en la encrucijada, aims to serve as a forumContinue reading “Call for Papers: II International Conference. Sevilla, 1514: Arquitectos tardogóticos en la encrucijada”

I Jornadas de Historia, Arte y Diseño de Moda

“Indumentaria y estética en la Edad Media: precedentes para la moda contemporánea” (“Clothing and aesthetics in the Middle Ages: precedents for contemporary fashion”) Museo del Traje – Madrid. 25, 26 and 27 March 2014. Organised by CSDMM (Centro Superior de Diseño de Moda de Madrid), Museo del Traje de Madrid and University Complutense of Madrid. ExpertsContinue reading “I Jornadas de Historia, Arte y Diseño de Moda”

Post your profile on this blog!

We’d like to get profiles of all researchers currently working on medieval art and architecture (defined in the broadest possible sense), so please send your details to medievalartresearch@gmail.com! Our Research Profiles page is visited more than any other page on this blog, so this is a great opportunity to get some exposure, and also to findContinue reading “Post your profile on this blog!”

Publication News: New Issue of Art History

The latest issue of Art History, Volume 37, Issue 1 Pages 4 – 199, February 2014, is available on Wiley Online Library. Abstracts & Authors’ Biographies (pages 4–7) Editorial (page 9) Gavin Parkinson Original Articles Ladies-in-Waiting in Waiting: Picturing Adolescence in Dmitry Levitsky’s Smolny Portraits, 1772–76(pages 10–37) Rosalind P. Blakesley The Motionless Look of a Painting: Jules Bastien-Lepage, Les Foins, andContinue reading “Publication News: New Issue of Art History”

Call for Proposals: Innovation and its Contestants

INNOVATION AND ITS CONTESTANTS 5th Annual Emerging Scholars Conference McGill University Department of Art History and Communications Studies 18 April 2014 Keynote Speaker: Keith Moxey, Barbara Novak Professor of Art History and Department Chair at Barnard College (Columbia University) Deadline for Submissions: 24 January 2014 The concept of innovation buttresses a paradigmatically modern Western belief in the possibilityContinue reading “Call for Proposals: Innovation and its Contestants”