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 |
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Organiser: | Richard A. Leson, Department of Art History, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee |
Moderator/Chair: | Kathryn Gerry, Walters Art Museum, Baltimore |
Paper 202-a | Ornament, Style, and Interpreting the Medieval Oliphant (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Art History - Decorative Arts, Social History |
Paper 202-b | Woodcarved Images and Verses from 14th-Century Byzantium (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Art History - Decorative Arts, Byzantine Studies |
Paper 202-c | Paris to Baltimore: The Saint-Denis Heads at the Walters Art Museum (Language: English) 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. |