IMC 2012: Sessions
Session 1529: Reassessing Biblical Kings and Ancient Emperors in Romanesque Art
Thursday 12 July 2012, 09.00-10.30
| Sponsor: | Departamento de Historia del Arte I (Medieval), Universidad Complutense de Madrid |
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| Organiser: | Mónica Ann Walker Vadillo, Departamento de Historia del Arte I (Medieval), Universidad Complutense de Madrid |
| Moderator/Chair: | Amanda W. Dotseth, Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London / Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Madrid |
| Paper 1529-a | From Constantine to Sancho Ramírez of Aragon-Navarre: Kingship and Patronage in the Age of the Gregorian Reform (Language: English) Index terms: Architecture - General, Architecture - Religious, Art History - General, Ecclesiastical History, Political Thought |
| Paper 1529-b | The Proud Nebuchadnezzar and Original Sin in Notre-Dame de Poitiers (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - Sculpture, Religious Life |
| Paper 1529-c | Swords and Crowns: Images of the King in a Spanish Romanesque Bible (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - Painting, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Abstract | This session aims to explore different approaches to kingship in the visual arts of late 11th and 12th centuries in Spain and France. The first paper analyzes some political and ecclesiastical actions undertaken by king Sancho Ramírez of Aragón-Navarre (1064-1094) that were likely intended to present him as a new Constantine. The two following contributions focus on Old Testament rulers, whose figures were used as a model of royal behavior like David or Solomon or the epitome of vice like Nebuchadnezzar in iconographic programs of the 12th century. |