IMC 2013: Sessions
Session 1514: Enjoying the Rewards of a Saintly Life: Visualising Sanctity in Late Medieval Art
Thursday 4 July 2013, 09.00-10.30
Sponsor: | Hagiography Society |
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Organiser: | Kathryn Gerry, Department of Art History, University of Kansas |
Moderator/Chair: | James Robinson, Department of Art & Design, National Museums of Scotland |
Paper 1514-a | The Pleasure of Martyrdom (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Art History - Sculpture, Hagiography, Mentalities |
Paper 1514-b | St Eligius and the Miracle of the Horseshoe: A 15th-Century Wall Painting at Highworth Church, Wiltshire (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - Painting, Hagiography, Local History |
Paper 1514-c | Saints, Rabbits, and Real Tennis: Hagiography and Pleasure in the Fisher Miscellany (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Hagiography, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
Abstract | Medieval artists working in a range of media found different ways to convey the pleasures and rewards of a holy life, or to entice the faithful to look to the saints as models and protectors. The papers in this session focus on visual arts associated with the cult of saints, examining the ways in which hagiographical material could be embellished and nuanced through visual constructions. Whether depicting holy figures and episodes from their lives, or associating saints with ideas that might not - at first glance - appear closely related, artists could enhance and more effectively drive home the lessons of textual hagiography. |