IMC 2013: Sessions
Session 115: Pleasure for the Eye, I: Tombs, Politics, and Iconographical Splendour
Monday 1 July 2013, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | Universiteit van Amsterdam |
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| Organiser: | Wendelien A. W. Van Welie-Vink, Afdeling Kunst- en cultuurwetenschappen, Universiteit van Amsterdam |
| Moderator/Chair: | Wendelien A. W. Van Welie-Vink, Afdeling Kunst- en cultuurwetenschappen, Universiteit van Amsterdam |
| Paper 115-a | A Mother in Mourning: Margherita Pellegrini and the Role of the Bevilacqua Faction of Verona in Constructing the Cappella Pellegrini (Language: English) Index terms: Architecture - Religious, Art History - General, Political Thought, Social History |
| Paper 115-b | Nobility, Gender, and Politics on the Tomb of Mary of Burgundy (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - Sculpture, Gender Studies, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Paper 115-c | We All Stand Together: Tombs with Collaborating Iconographical Motifs in Family Mausoleums (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - Sculpture, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Abstract | The medieval funeral monument can be seen as a means of communication. It is a public, visible, object, that is used to shape the remembrance of the deceased. In this session the message of medieval monuments is being examined. The function of iconographical splendour on tombs and in a funeral chapel will be investigated in its political context. The iconography of Individual objects (the tomb of Mary of Burgundy), groups of tombs (English livery collars as a 'group symbol' and collaborating iconographical splendour on tombs in family mausoleums) of the 14th and 15th century are subject of the papers in this session. The iconography of an Italian 16th century funeral chapel (Capella Pellegrini) will be investigated in the context of the political struggles of that time in Verona. |