Business Meeting
The IAS Kalamazoo Business Meeting was held Friday at noon in Fetzer 1045. Minutes.
IAS-Sponsored Sessions
The IAS is sponsoring four linked sessions on the topic of Sanctity and the Arts in Medieval Italy
Abstract for the linked sessions:
Sanctity and artistry went hand in hand in medieval Italy, whether in religious or civic contexts. Churches and shrines arose on the sites of miracles and at the tombs of the very special dead. Artists and patrons developed visual narratives, presented as multiple episodes and as synthetic epitomes, that represented, altered, and exceeded textual recollections of the lives and deeds of the saints, while iconic images, in a variety of media, provided loci for cultic veneration. The arts also had a generative effect on the cult of saints, helping to expand local veneration, spread the cults of specific figures, and reshape existing cults by providing new intellectual or devotional contexts. This series of linked sessions examines several aspects of this intersection between the visual and architectural arts and the cult of saints in medieval Italy.
Sessions Sponsored by the Italian Art Society
Session Title: Sanctity and the Arts in Medieval Italy I: Foreign Saints in Italy, Italian Saints Abroad
Bernhard Brown & Gold Room
Saturday, May 15, 2010 1:30-3:00pm
Organizer and Presider: Véronique Plesch, Colby College
Speakers/Papers:
Dorothy F. Glass, Independent Scholar, “Neither Corpus nor Cult: The Strange Case of Saints Barlaam and Joasaph at the Baptistery of Parma”
Jessica Noel Richardson, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, “The North Portal of San Leonardo in Lama Volara (Apulia) and the Cult of Saint Leonard of Noblat in Twelfth-Century Italy”
Session Title: Sanctity and the Arts in Medieval Italy II: Sites of Veneration: Spurring New Devotion
Bernhard Brown & Gold Room
Saturday, May 15, 2010, 3:30-5:00pm
Organizer and Presider: Gregor A. Kalas, University of Tennessee–Knoxville
Speakers/Papers:
Maya Maskarinec, University of California–Los Angeles, "Newly Constructed Antiquity: Saturn in Late Fourth-Century Rome"
Maura Lafferty, University of Tennessee–Knoxville, "Speaking to the Martyrs of Rome in the Early Middle Ages"
Alan M. Stahl, Princeton University, "The Virgin in the Garden: The Making of a Pilgrimage Site in Medieval Venice"
Session Title: Sanctity and the Arts in Medieval Italy III: Moveable Icons, Moveable Cults
Bernhard Brown & Gold Room
Sunday, May 16, 2010, 8:30-10:00am
Organizer and Presider: Rebecca W. Corrie, Bates College
Speakers/Papers:
Alison Locke Perchuk, Yale University, "A Papal Cult in Lazio? The Madonna della Clemenza at Castel Sant’Elia"
Rebekah Perry, University of Pittsburgh, "The 'Inchinata' Procession and the Madonna delle Grazie: Francescanesimo and Civismo between Rome and Tivoli in the Late Thirteenth Century"
Meredith Fluke, Columbia University, "Sanctifying the City: High Medieval Verona and the Ritual Reproduction of Rome"
Session Title: Sanctity and the Arts in Medieval Italy IV: Novel Narratives, Narrative Novelties
Bernhard Brown & Gold Room
Sunday, May 16, 2010, 10:30am-12:00pm
Organizer and Presider: Charles S. Buchanan, Ohio University
Speakers/Papers:
Marius Hauknes, Princeton University, "Transgressive Narratives in the Sancta Sanctorum"
Julia I. Miller, California State University–Long Beach, and Laurie Taylor-Mitchell, Hood College, "New and Revised Narratives in the Church of Ognissanti in Florence: Taddeo Gaddi’s Crucifixion and the Gucci Chapel"
Amber A. McAlister, University of Pittsburgh–Greensburg, "The Interplay of Word and Image in the Migliorati Chapel, San Francesco (Prato)"