IMC 2013: Sessions
Session 117: In Search of Spiritual Pleasure
Monday 1 July 2013, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | Institute of History of Art & Culture, Pontifical University of John Paul II, Kraków |
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| Organiser: | Dariusz Tabor, Institute of History of Art & Culture, Pontifical University of John Paul II, Kraków |
| Moderator/Chair: | Piotr Łukasz Grotowski, Institute of History of Art & Culture, Pontifical University of John Paul II, Kraków |
| Paper 117-a | In the Battle for Overcoming Earthly Pleasures: Psychomachia (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Monasticism, Theology |
| Paper 117-b | The Pleasure of Possessing Books: Cracow Bishops as Manuscript Collectors (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Ecclesiastical History, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Paper 117-c | The Cistercian Garden: The Source of Sensual and Spiritual Pleasure (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Monasticism, Theology |
| Paper 117-d | The Pleasures of the Unicorn: Depictions of the Lady and the Unicorn in Tapestries after Richard de Fournival's Bestiary of Love (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - Decorative Arts, Language and Literature - French or Occitan, Women's Studies |
| Abstract | Four papers are dedicated to the works of art, which represent partucular situation of the human being. The psychomachy, the purgatory, and the monastic garden have reference to the spiritual life. In fact the plesure, which could be offered in this situation is the alegory of communion with God. The speakers will take in consideration some works of art from the Central Europe. |