Call for Papers: 15th International Congress of Turkish Art (ICTA) Università di Napoli “L’Orientale”, Dipartimento Asia, Africa e Mediterraneo (Piazza San Domenico Maggiore 12, Napoli), 16 – 18 September 2015 Deadline: 30 September 2014 We are pleased to inform you that the 15th International Congress of Turkish Art will take place in Naples, at the Università diContinue reading “CFP: 15th International Congress of Turkish Art (Naples, 16-18 September 2015)”
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CFP: RSA-Session ‘Arts in Quattrocento Pisa I-II’ (Berlin, 26-28 March 2015)
RSA-Session ‘Arts in Quattrocento Pisa I-II’ Berlin, 26-28 March 2015 Deadline: 12 June 2014 The Quattrocento was a dramatic century for Pisa. The Tuscan town, formerly a leading “Maritime Republic” and one of the wealthiest and most splendid Mediterranean centers in the Middle Ages, lost its independence in 1406 and fell under the dominion of Florence. The political,Continue reading “CFP: RSA-Session ‘Arts in Quattrocento Pisa I-II’ (Berlin, 26-28 March 2015)”
Publication News: Joanna Cannon, Religious Poverty, Visual Riches.
Religious Poverty, Visual Riches. Art in the Dominican Churches of Central Italy in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries by Joanna Cannon The Dominican friars of late-medieval Italy were committed to a life of poverty, yet their churches contained many visual riches, as this groundbreaking study reveals. Works by supreme practitioners—Cimabue, Duccio, Giotto, and Simone Martini—areContinue reading “Publication News: Joanna Cannon, Religious Poverty, Visual Riches.”