IMC 2015: Sessions
Session 203: The Body in Medieval Art, I: Corporal Transformation
Monday 6 July 2015, 14.15-15.45
| Sponsor: | Research Group 'Boundaries & Identity Formation in the Premodern World', Universiteit van Amsterdam |
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| Organiser: | Wendelien A. W. Van Welie-Vink, Afdeling Kunst- en cultuurwetenschappen, Universiteit van Amsterdam |
| Moderator/Chair: | Wendelien A. W. Van Welie-Vink, Afdeling Kunst- en cultuurwetenschappen, Universiteit van Amsterdam |
| Paper 203-a | Salvation Is Near!: Hope for the Afterlife through Jonah and Endymion (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Art History - Painting |
| Paper 203-b | Deliverance from the Fiery Furnace: Martyrdom, Magic, and Salvation in Depictions of the Three Hebrews in Early Christian Art and Literature (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - Painting, Art History - Sculpture, Language and Literature - Greek, Language and Literature - Latin, Religious Life |
| Paper 203-c | Whose Body Are We Looking At?: The First Panel of the Bronze Doors of Hildesheim Investigated (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Art History - Sculpture |
| Abstract | Transformation and metamorphoses of the body have played a significant role in medieval art. In this session, three papers will address the representation of human bodies in a variety of modes: afterlife, when under brutal attack or at the moment of creation. How are these bodies represented, and what do they tell us about the status of the body in the medieval era? |