IMC 2011: Sessions
Session 1202: 'Reading' the Romanesque Façade
Wednesday 13 July 2011, 14.15-15.45
| Organisers: | Amanda W. Dotseth, Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London / Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Madrid Pamela A. Patton, Department of Art History, Southern Methodist University, Texas |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Rose Walker, Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London |
| Paper 1202-a | Attunement to the Damned at Conques (Language: English) Index terms: Architecture - Religious, Art History - Sculpture, Theology |
| Paper 1202-b | Framing Humility at San Quirce de Burgos (Language: English) Index terms: Architecture - Religious, Art History - Sculpture, Monasticism |
| Abstract | Modern assumptions about readability and organization have frequently but often misleadingly shaped scholarly interpretations of Romanesque façades. This session probes ways in which such modern conceptual habits may obscure how the medieval viewer understood such ensembles. Its three speakers bring these concerns to bear on a variety of Romanesque tympana in France and Spain, the interpretations of which are transformed by analysis of contemporary conditions particular to each site and of the unique perspective brought to each by recognizing medieval understandings of narrative sequence, pain and the body, and the experiential impact of movement and topography. |