IMC 2015: Sessions
Session 1719: Change or Continuity?: Visual Culture at the Reformation and Beyond
Thursday 9 July 2015, 14.15-15.45
Sponsor: | University of Leicester / Precise Media London |
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Organiser: | Ellie Pridgeon, Department of the History of Art & Film, University of Leicester / Precise Media, London |
Moderator/Chair: | Kimm Curran, History Lab+, Institute of Historical Research, University of London |
Paper 1719-a | The Reformation and Its Impact on Passion Imagery in Finland (Language: English) Index terms: Architecture - Religious, Art History - Painting |
Paper 1719-b | Reformation and Reform: Medieval Wall Paintings at Lacock Abbey, Wiltshire (Language: English) Index terms: Architecture - Religious, Art History - Painting, Monasticism |
Paper 1719-c | The Post-Reformation Wall Painting Project: A Synopsis of Discoveries So Far (Language: English) Index terms: Architecture - Religious, Art History - Painting |
Abstract | This session will examine the visual changes to churches and monastic interiors at the Reformation in England and Scandinavia, making particular reference to the medium of wall painting. We will question whether visual changes at the Reformation constituted continuity or change in terms of image and building function. The speakers will focus on the impact of Protestant theology on Passion murals in 16th-century Finland, and on the changing function of the nunnery complex and subsequent fate of the medieval wall paintings at Lacock Abbey (Wiltshire). The session will also examine the extensive and under-researched corpus of post-Reformation wall painting in England, and consider their physical and iconographical relationship to medieval paintings. |