Sessions Sponsored by the Italian Art Society
Session Title: Questioning “Gregorian Reform Art” (Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries): Challenges, Strategies, and New Approaches I: Rome and Northern Italy
Remote
Co-Chair: Barbara Franzé, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland,
Co-Chair: Dr. Gillian B. Elliott, George Washington University
Speakers/Papers:
Manuel Antonio Castiñeiras González, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Which Saint George, and why? Ceri and the Holy Warrior in the Context of the Gregorian Reform
Claudia S. Quattrocchi, Ministry of Culture, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Roma , From Sanctus Habitat to Loci Picti: An Ecocritical Interpretation of the Saint Magnus Monumental Complex at Fondi (IV-XII)
Rei Ito, Tokyo Zokei University, Japan , The Frescoes of the Basilica of San Pietro in Tuscania and Its Decoration Program
Session Title: Questioning “Gregorian Reform Art” (Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries): Challenges, Strategies, and New Approaches II: To the Boundaries
Co-Chair: Gillian B. Elliott, George Washington University
Co-Chair: Barbara Franzé, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
Speakers/Papers:
Cheryl L Kaufman, Independent Scholar, Local Reform Ideals and the Sculpture in the Cloister of Saint Ursus in Aosta (Italy)
Carlos Sánchez Márquez, Universitat Autonòma de Barcelona, Catalonia and the Gregorian Reform: The Shaping of Devotional Images through Romanesque Altar Frontals
Krzysztof Ratajczak, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland, Reception of the Idea of Gregorian Reform in Polish Medieval Culture (Writing, Art, Architecture). The State and Prospects of Research
Session Title: Unfolding the Past: The Materiality and Temporality of Medieval Southern Italy – Session I
Chair: Antonino Tranchina
Speakers/Papers:
Tancredi Bella and Giulia Arcidiacono, Hidden and Revealed: Sacred Bodies, Monumental Spaces, and Civic Identity in Medieval Sicily
Giulia Anna Bianca Bordi, Redefining the Past and the Sacred Spaces: The Episcopal Complex of Siponto and the Memory of His Saint Bishop Lorenzo
Sabine Sommerer, The Tomb of Elia in S. Nicola, Bari: Temporality as Argument in Text and Image
Maddalena Vaccaro, Deconstructing Models for Constructing the Present: Cults, Architecture, and Norman Patronage in Southern Italy
Session Title: Unfolding the Past: The Materiality and Temporality of Medieval Southern Italy – Session II
Chair: Adrian Bremenkamp
Speakers/Papers:
Wilfried E. Keil, Remarks on the Use of Architectural Spolia in Churches of Medieval Southern Italy
Nicolas Bock, Useful History: Modernizing Medieval Family Chapels in Naples Between the Fifteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
Elisabetta Scirocco, Spolia/Memoria: The Legacy of Trecento Funerary Sculpture in Renaissance Naples
Lucio Oriani, The Reuse of Manuscripts in Alfonso of Aragon’s Library