IMC 2010: Sessions
Session 102: A New Look at Old Things, I: New Perspectives on Illuminated Manuscripts at the Walters Art Museum
Monday 12 July 2010, 11.15-12.45
Sponsor: | Walters Art Museum, Baltimore |
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Organiser: | Kathryn Gerry, Walters Art Museum, Baltimore |
Moderator/Chair: | Richard A. Leson, Department of Art History, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee |
Paper 102-a | On the Nature of Things: Walters Art Museum MS W.73 and Decorated Manuals, c.1200 (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Monasticism, Science |
Paper 102-b | Praeclaram varietatem: The Binding of a Romanesque Gospel Book at the Walters Art Museum (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Art History - Decorative Arts, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Monasticism |
Paper 102-c | White Vine in 15th-Century French Manuscripts: Artistic and Cultural Implications (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Art History - Painting, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
Abstract | The collections of the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, once provided exploratory aesthetic, devotional, didactic, and historical pathways for medieval viewers. Today, these fine examples enable new explorations of the past. Two sessions will present current research on this collection of medieval art and manuscripts - one of the most important in the United States, but still relatively unknown in Europe. We seek to familiarise medievalists with this significant resource and showcase the research of international scholars who have worked with Walters materials. Each paper will concentrate on an object or book that has not been the subject of recent focused research. |