IMC 2014: Sessions
Session 803: Maritime Connections and Medieval Art
Tuesday 8 July 2014, 16.30-18.00
| Sponsor: | International Center of Medieval Art |
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| Organiser: | Jennifer Grayburn, Department of History of Art & Architecture, University of Virginia |
| Moderator/Chair: | Sanne Frequin, Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies Amsterdam, Universiteit van Amsterdam |
| Paper 803-a | Seaside Ambitions and Port Town Pride: The Tallinn Brotherhood of the Black Heads as Patrons of Art (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Maritime and Naval Studies |
| Paper 803-b | Lingua lagunare, lingua adriatica: Paolo Veneziano, c. 1290-1362, and His Contemporaries between Venice and Croatia (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Art History - Painting, Maritime and Naval Studies |
| Abstract | When Fernand Braudel published The Mediterranean in the Age of Philip II over 70 years ago, he shifted the intellectual dialogue from nations and territories to the sea itself. He argued that the sea was not a geographical boundary, but rather a dynamic force that determined shared coastal ways of life and provided an arena for multilateral encounters. Historians of all time periods and various sea basins have, since then, embraced and expanded Braudel's approach, emphasising the maritime ties between otherwise distant regions and people through travel, trade, and conquest. Art and architectural historians have increasingly adopted this model during the past decade, with a dominant focus upon the Mediterranean Sea. The papers in this panel explore the importance of medieval cross-sea networks within the fields of art and architectural history. By focussing on the practical considerations of medieval travel and exchange within a maritime context, it is possible to expand, refine, and complicate established assumptions of regional styles, artistic production, cultural exchange or appropriation, and the portability of objects and ideas. |