IMC 2010: Sessions
Session 720: Travel, Art, and Pilgrimage
Tuesday 13 July 2010, 14.15-15.45
| Sponsor: | Departamento de Historia del Arte I (Medieval), Universidad Complutense de Madrid |
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| Organiser: | Francisco de Asís García García, Departamento de Historia del Arte I (Medieval), Universidad Complutense de Madrid |
| Moderator/Chair: | Carlos Molina Valero, Departamento de Filología Clásica e Indoeuropeo, Universidad de Salamanca |
| Paper 720-a | The Meaning of the Pilgrim's Iconography in Medieval Art (Language: English) Index terms: Anthropology, Art History - Painting, Art History - Sculpture, Religious Life |
| Paper 720-b | Exploring Iconography: The Interactions of the Pilgrim with the Virtues and Vices of Guillaume de Deguilleville's Pilgrimage of the Life of Man (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - Painting, Religious Life |
| Paper 720-c | The Pilgrimage of the Relics of St Peter of Barco from Ávila and the Dissemination of his Devotion and Iconography (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Hagiography, Religious Life |
| Paper 720-d | To Lose and to Recover the Name: An Initiation Journey in the Roman The Perilous Cemetery (L'âtre périlleux) (Language: English) Index terms: Folk Studies, Language and Literature - French or Occitan, Mentalities |
| Abstract | Travel and pilgrimage are well-known influential factors in medieval artistic creation. Relics were not only an attraction for pilgrims, they also travelled creating new types of iconographies and devotional practices. The figurative arts developed a whole imagery of the pilgrimage and the traveller. Due to the impact of peregrinations that imagery and its conceptual framework were used to illustrate spiritual itineraries, understanding the pilgrimage as a life metaphor. Then, the relationship between art and pilgrimage became a central point not only for the architectural or liturgical development -as commonly pointed out-, but also for the medieval image culture. |