IMC 2008: Sessions
Session 1121: Italian and Central European Art as a Playground of Nature
Wednesday 9 July 2008, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | Pontifical Academy of Theology, Kraków |
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| Organiser: | Zdzisław Kliś, Institute of History of Art, Pontifical Academy of Theology, Kraków |
| Moderator/Chair: | Zdzisław Kliś, Institute of History of Art, Pontifical Academy of Theology, Kraków |
| Paper 1121-a | Fox Captured: Animal Fights on Venetian Pavements and their Byzantine Antecedents (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Art History - Painting, Byzantine Studies |
| Paper 1121-b | Animal symbolicum among Other Creatures: The 'Forest of Symbols' on the Bronze Door at the Cathedral Church in Gniezno (Language: English) Index terms: Anthropology, Art History - Decorative Arts, Art History - General, Hagiography |
| Paper 1121-c | The Garden in the Medieval Art of Central Europe: Mediation between Natural and Supernatural (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Liturgy, Monasticism, Theology |
| Paper 1121-d | The Tree as a Symbol: Selected Examples in Medieval Art of Central Europe (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Education, Liturgy, Theology |
| Abstract | There are a lot of connections of Central European art with Italy. And we can see it in Christian iconography. The themes which we have chosen are deeply rooted even in early Christian times. But we concentrate on Central Europe, especially Poland. We want to talk about garden, trees, degradation of door margins in Gniezno, their natural and supernatural meaning. It is a spectrum of ideas which came from the West to Central Europe. |