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Symbolic and Material Changes to Cult Images in the Classical and Medieval Ages
Iconotropy is a Greek word which literally means “image turning.” William J. Hamblin (2007) defines the term as “the accidental or deliberate misinterpretation by one culture of the images or myths of another one, especially so as to bring them into accord with those of the first culture.” In fact, iconotropy is commonly the result of the way cultures have dealt with images from foreign or earlier cultures. Numerous accounts from classical antiquity and the Middle Ages detail how cult images were involved in such processes of misinterpretation, both symbolically and materially. Pagan cultures for example deliberately misrepresented ancient ritual icons and incorporated new meanings to the mythical substratum, thus modifying the myth’s original meanings and bringing about a profound change to existing religious paradigms. Iconotropy is a fundamental concept in religious history, particularly of contexts in which religious changes, often turbulent, took place. At the same time, the iconotropic process of appropriating cult images brought with it changes in the materiality of those images...The conference hopes to generate new research questions and creative synergies by initiating conversation and the exchange of ideas among scholars in the arts and humanities.
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Lisbon | Sintra
Conference, symposium - Europe
State-Rooms of Royal and Princely Palaces in Europe (14th-16th c.)
Spaces, images, rituals
From the fourteenth to the sixteenth century, European monarchies saw a gradual centralisation of power. This was accompanied by the dissemination of political ideas that contributed to the making of a new image of the prince, which relied on visual instruments to assert and construct the prince’s sovereign power. Royal and princely residences with their designated state-rooms were at the centre of this phenomenon. Their decors, particularly during ceremonies, reflected political interests and ambitions that were essential to the image of the prince. By placing a particular emphasis on the decor of those state-rooms, this workshop aims to increase our insights into the relations between the architecture, decoration, and rituals of monarchical power in state-rooms from the late middle ages to the beginning of the early modern period.
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Lisbon
State-Rooms of Royal and Princely Palaces in Europe (14th-16th c.)
Spaces, Images, Rituals
From the fourteenth to the sixteenth century, European monarchies saw a gradual centralisation of power. This was accompanied by the dissemination of political ideas that contributed to the making of a new image of the prince, which relied on visual instruments to assert and construct the prince’s sovereign power. Royal and princely residences with their designated state-rooms were at the centre of this phenomenon. Their decors, particularly during ceremonies, reflected political interests and ambitions that were essential to the image of the prince. By placing a particular emphasis on the decor of those state-rooms, this workshop aims to increase our insights into the relations between the architecture, decoration, and rituals of monarchical power in state-rooms from the late middle ages to the beginning of the early modern period.
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Kalamazoo
Call for papers - Representation
Body and Soul in Medieval Visual Culture
52nd International Congress on Medieval Studies
This session seeks papers that explore the range of ways in which medieval artists responded to the anthropological duality of body and soul in the visual arts of the Byzantine and Western medieval worlds.
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Rome
Heraldry in the Medieval City – The Case of Italy in the European Context
A visitor passing through Italy is surprised by the abundance of coats of arms that still decorate the palaces and public monuments of its cities. Relatively undisturbed by the tides of history that destroyed a lot of Europe's heraldic heritage, in the Italian cities this heritage is still alive and well. While the development of heraldic signs occasionally caught the eye of historians and art historians, they have never done justice to the multitude and diversity of the existing sources. Recently, however, research has taken an interest in the subject with renewed vigour and approaches, especially in the case of Italy. The aim of this conference is to establish the current state of research and to advance the subject by linking more closely the history of heraldic communication and the history of cities. To do so, the Italian example shall be put into a European perspective.
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Hildesheim
Objets, matériaux, techniques : récits d’origines au Moyen Âge
L’histoire de l’art, par rapport à la longue durée de ses objets, est un type de récit et d’interprétation assez jeune et également spécifique. Que nous enseigne dès lors une enquête sur des récits plus anciens, datant du Moyen Âge, à propos de l’origine d’objets privilégiés, de matériaux admirés, ou de techniques particulières ?
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Lisbon
Images and Liturgy in Portugal in the Middle Age
The seminar Images and Liturgy in Portugal in the Middle Age, organized by the CEAACP Multidisciplinary Group Study in Arts (University of Coimbra), in partnership with the Association of Portuguese Archaeologists / Carmo Archaeological Museum, is part of the set of project initiatives of Carla Varela Fernandes’ Postdoc (Sculptures of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries in collections of Portuguese museums. An imperative approach to a broader knowledge of the scientific reality). It aims the presentation and discussion of recent studies and reflections on works of Romanic and Gothic art existing in Portugal. It is intended to address the medieval images as part of the liturgical rituals and the buildings they were designed for. On the other hand, we’ll try to provide advances in the knowledge on the means as an iconographic innovation or aesthetic generated at a given location "moves" and appears in other geographies, serving similar purposes.
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Geneva
The experimentation of gesture
A method of investigating the arts of grace and war from the Middle Ages to the Modern period
Les gestes et, de manière générale, les savoirs corporels liés aux arts et aux techniques constituent un champ de recherche relatif à l’histoire et à l’histoire culturelle ; actuellement, ce champ est en développement. L’histoire des savoirs gestuels, de leur place dans les mentalités, de la volonté de leur inscription, description ou codification, ainsi que des modalités de leur transmission reposent sur de nombreuses traces écrites. Ces traces existent sous formes textuelles (usage du verbe), figurées (iconographie) et / ou codifiées (différentes formes d’écriture, de schématisation et de notation). Pour le colloque du 17 au 19 octobre, nous nous concentrerons principalement sur l’étude du geste des domaines de la danse et des combats ainsi que de leurs domaines associés, pour les périodes allant du XIIIe siècle à la première moitié du XVIIIe siècle.
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Saint-Martin-le-Vieil
Conference, symposium - Middle Ages
Églises troglodytiques et signes rupestres au Moyen Âge
Sixième colloque de Saint-Martin-le-Vieil (Aude, France)
Églises troglodytiques et signes rupestres au Moyen Âge: sixième colloque de Saint-Martin-le-Vieil (Aude, France), les 1er et 2 octobre 2011, sous la présidence de Jean Guilaine, professeur au Collège de France, membre de l’Institut. L’Europe et le pourtour méditerranéen sont riches de grottes et de sites rupestres dont l’étude a trop souvent laissé de côté une approche scientifique concernant le Moyen Âge. Néanmoins, les études concernant ce milieu se multiplient depuis une vingtaine d’années. Elles sont l’œuvre de chercheurs ayant des optiques différentes : archéologues, spéléologues, historiens, géographes, géologues, architectes, etc. De leur confrontation, commencent à poindre des problématiques originales enrichissant la question de l’économie, de l’évolution et des dynamiques d’occupation de ces structures au Moyen Âge. Cette rencontre pluridisciplinaire et internationale, qui fait l’objet de publications, a pour but de tenter de mieux cerner collectivement le contexte de ces structures, afin de proposer un état actuel de cette question pour en souligner les problématiques et surtout permettre de renouveler la recherche sur ce thème. -
Versailles
Cultures matérielles, cultures visuelles du costume dans les cours européennes (1300-1815)
Material & visual cultures of dress in european courts (1300-1815)
Ce colloque propose d’interroger la question vestimentaire dans les cours européennes, dans une perspective temporelle large, partant en amont de la fin du Moyen Âge, quand s’invente un « corps de mode » et quand les cours prennent leur essor. Il s’achève avec les derniers éclats de la cour impériale française. Le colloque de Versailles sera l’occasion de faire le point sur les travaux dans ce domaine, sur un temps long, entre 1300 et 1815, qui permettra aux participants de prendre la mesure des évolutions, de comparer les cours entre elles et d’appréhender leurs influences mutuelles. Il s’inscrit dans trois champs de recherche : le champ très actif des Court studies qui ont mis en évidence le rôle de la cour comme lieu de pouvoir et de culture, celui de l’histoire de la culture matérielle et de la consommation et celui de la culture des apparences vestimentaires et des cultures visuelles, domaines de recherche actuellement en plein essor.
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