IMC 2015: Sessions
Session 1034: Artistic Languages of Reform in Italy
Wednesday 8 July 2015, 09.00-10.30
Sponsor: | National Endowment for the Humanities / American Academy, Rome |
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Organiser: | Maureen C. Miller, Department of History, University of California, Berkeley |
Moderator/Chair: | Lila Yawn, Department of Art History & Studio Art, John Cabot University, Roma / American Academy, Rome |
Paper 1034-a | The Gregorian Reform and the Visual Arts: Still a Problem of Method? (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - Painting, Historiography - Modern Scholarship |
Paper 1034-b | The Bearer of the Keys: Expressions of Authority in Romanesque Lombard Sculpture (Language: English) Index terms: Architecture - Religious, Art History - Sculpture |
Paper 1034-c | Renaissance and Reform?: Raphael and Gregory the Great in the Private Library of Julius II (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - Painting, Theology |
Abstract | Just as medieval reformers sought to critique, inspire, and transform through the written and spoken word, so they mobilized artistic media as well as iconography to express their message. Yet, the relationship between art and intellectual and institutional developments is rarely simple and programmatic. After an initial contribution that evaluates methodologically scholarship linking artistic production and reform during the late 11th and 12th centuries, the remaining papers explore in depth two examples of the complex nexus of artistic expression, reform, and power as it manifested itself in the ecclesiastical sculpture of northern Italian churches and in the fresco programs of the Vatican. |