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IMC 2010: Sessions

Session 202: A New Look at Old Things, II: New Perspectives on Medieval Sculpture at the Walters Art Museum

Monday 12 July 2010, 14.15-15.45

Sponsor:Walters Art Museum, Baltimore
Organiser:Richard A. Leson, Department of Art History, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Moderator/Chair:Kathryn Gerry, Walters Art Museum, Baltimore
Paper 202-aOrnament, Style, and Interpreting the Medieval Oliphant
(Language: English)
Jennifer P. Kingsley, Department of Art History & Archaeology, Columbia University
Index terms: Art History - General, Art History - Decorative Arts, Social History
Paper 202-bWoodcarved Images and Verses from 14th-Century Byzantium
(Language: English)
Georgi Parpulov, Faculty of History, University of Oxford
Index terms: Art History - General, Art History - Decorative Arts, Byzantine Studies
Paper 202-cParis to Baltimore: The Saint-Denis Heads at the Walters Art Museum
(Language: English)
Matthew H. Woodworth, Department of Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Duke University
Index terms: Architecture - Religious, Art History - General, Art History - Sculpture
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.