Sessions Sponsored by the Italian Art Society
Session Title: Drawing Together and Setting Apart: Pulpits and Screens in Medieval Italy, I: Case Studies from Central and Northern Italy
Monday, May 9th at 9am
Organizer: Ludovico Geymonat, Louisiana State University
Organizer: Nancy Wu, Metropolitan Museum of Art (Emerita)
Speakers/Papers:
Yoshie Kojima, Pulpit/Screen of the Cathedral of Fidenza
Stella Ferrari, ... avendo due prospetti con varj ornati, e riquadrature di marmi diversi: The Pulpit in the Cathedral of Osimo and its Regional Context
Armin Bergmeier, Echoes of the East: San Marco in Venice and the Byzantine Chancel Screen
Session Title: Drawing Together and Setting Apart: Pulpits and Screens in Medieval Italy, II: Forms and Functions
Monday, May 9th at 11am
Organizer: Ludovico Geymonat, Louisiana State University
Organizer: Nancy Wu, Metropolitan Museum of Art (Emerita)
Speakers/Papers:
Lucas Giles, Reconstructing the Pulpitum at Santa Caterina in Pisa: Tramezzo Studies, GPR Technology and Digital Humanities
Alberto Lai, Showing Relics: the Use of Pulpits and Screens to Display Sacred Relics in Medieval Ital
Nirit Ben-Aryeh Debby, Preaching, Performance, and the Italian Pulpit
Session Title: Encountering the Sacred in Medieval Italian Spaces, I: Painting and Space
Friday, May 13 at 3pm
Organizer: Meredith Fluke, College of the Holy Cross
Organizer: Erik Gustafson, George Mason University
Moderator: Erik Gustafson, George Mason University
Speakers/Papers:
Laura Jacobus, Birkbeck College, University of London, Sacred Continuity in Space and Time: The Templum Salomonis in Jerusalem, and the Templum Scrovegnis in Padua
Gerd Micheluzzi, University of Hamburg, Ex luminis privatione: Cast Shadows as Spatial References in Pietro Lorenzetti's Assisi 'Passion Cycle'
Louisa McKenzie, Warburg Institute, A Heavenly Brotherhood on Earth: The Case of Neri di Bicci's San Giovanni Gualberto Enthroned for the Cloister of San Pancrazio
Charles Buchanan, Ohio University, Visualizing the Sacred at the Basilica of S. Paolo fuori le mura in the High Middle Ages: The Evidence of the Palatine Bible (Cittá del Vaticano, BAV, MSS 3-5)
Session Title: Encountering the Sacred in Medieval Italian Spaces, II:
Saturday, May 14th at 3pm
Organizer: Meredith Fluke, College of the Holy Cross
Organizer: Erik Gustafson, George Mason University
Moderator: Meredith Fluke, College of the Holy Cross
Speakers/Papers:
Ivan Foletti, Masaryk University, Brno, The Experience of the Sacred as Place of Social StratificatioThe Presbytery of the Basilica of Sant'Ambrogio in Milan during the Carolingian and Ottonian Era
Alexis Wang, Columbia University, Assimilating Bodies, Bricks, and Tesserae in the Apse of San Clemente in Rome
Lorenzo Colombo, University of Rome 'Tor Vergata', Sacred Space in the Aftermath of the Blood Libel: The Making of a Saint and the Rebranding of a Town
Catherine Carver, University of Michigan, The Strange Case of Sta. Maria in Grottapinta and Topographies of Marian Devotion in Medieval Rome
Session Title: Roundtable: Amy Neff, A Soul’s Journey: Franciscan Art, Theology, and Devotion in the Supplicationes variae
Saturday, May 14th at 11am
Organizer: Lezlie S. Knox, Marquette University
Respondent: Amy L. Neff, University of Tennessee–Knoxville
Presider: Kathleen G. Arthur, James Madison University
Speakers/Papers:
Ann W. Astell, University of Notre Dame
Holly Flora, Tulane University
Timothy J. Johnson, Flagler College