Skip to main content

IMC 2014: Sessions

Session 1320: From Legacy to Liability?: Responses to a Century of Scholarship on the Art of Medieval Spain

Wednesday 9 July 2014, 16.30-18.00

Organiser:Amanda W. Dotseth, Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London / Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Madrid
Moderator/Chair:Therese Martin, Instituto de Historia, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Madrid
Paper 1320-aSecond Best: Spanish Romanesque Miniature and the 1162 Bible of San Isidoro de León
(Language: English)
Ana Hernández Ferreirós, Departamento de Historia del Arte I (Medieval), Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Index terms: Art History - General, Historiography - Modern Scholarship, Manuscripts and Palaeography
Paper 1320-bOn a Giant's Shoulders (or in His Shadow?): San Quirce, Silos, and the Legacy of the Rural Romanesque
(Language: English)
Amanda W. Dotseth, Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London / Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Madrid
Index terms: Architecture - Religious, Art History - Sculpture, Historiography - Modern Scholarship
Paper 1320-cOff the Beaten Path: Reassessing the Pilgrimage Narrative in Romanesque Aragon
(Language: English)
Julia Perratore, Department of History of Art, University of Pennsylvania
Index terms: Art History - General, Historiography - Modern Scholarship
Abstract

The history of Spanish medieval art advances new conclusions thanks in part to the solid foundations laid by scholars past. Long-held values about, and relationships between, select monuments make up the mythology of our discipline, weaving a well-established narrative that many now take as axiomatic. Whether or not, or indeed how, particular medieval sites participate in the prevailing narrative has had a major impact on their study today, as scholars are faced with either negotiating the tangled and often polemical historiographies of canonical sites or challenging the traditional exclusion of others from the canon entirely. The papers in this session will probe historiographical legacies in order to assess their impact on current trends in art historical scholarship. Through a presentation of representative case studies and the scrutiny of tendencies toward the repetition of clichés, each speaker will examine the way in which s/he responds to the assertions of others in the development of new evidence-based conclusions in the study of the art of medieval Iberia.