IMC 2010: Sessions
Session 1621: Medieval Art Travels: Portability, Hybridity, Exchange
Thursday 15 July 2010, 11.15-12.45
| Organiser: | Anne Harris, Richard E. Peeler Art Center, DePauw University |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Linda Elaine Neagley, Department of Art & Art History, Rice University, Texas |
| Paper 1621-a | Bringing Home Kalila: An Islamic Fable in 14th-Century Paris (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Art History - Painting, Islamic and Arabic Studies, Language and Literature - Comparative |
| Paper 1621-b | A Tale of Two Tombs: The Art Historical Fate of Isabelle of Aragon from the Holy Land to France (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - Sculpture, Crusades, Gender Studies, Islamic and Arabic Studies |
| Paper 1621-c | Late Medieval Orientalism in Jean Thenaud's Voyage d'Outremer: Morality and Politics at the Court of Louise de Savoie (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Islamic and Arabic Studies, Mentalities, Political Thought |
| Abstract | This panel explores the travel of ideas as embodied in works of art. New studies in art history extend beyond issues of influence to examine scenarios of appropriation and adaptation. Western fascination with Eastern narrative, history, and topography manifested itself in objects and images which were reframed and often manipulated for European audiences, resulting in works of art that bear the traces of their travel. Art objects travelled under many guises: as loot, as gifts, as objects of exchange, or as memento. The papers in this panel study the sources and repercussions of art objects whose travel was rendered vivid and visible. |