IMC 2015: Sessions
Session 711: Pseudo-Dionysius and the Arts, I: The Visual Rhetoric of Hierarchy
Tuesday 7 July 2015, 14.15-15.45
| Sponsor: | International Center of Medieval Art (ICMA), New York |
|---|---|
| Organiser: | Francesca Dell'Acqua, Dipartimento di Scienze del Patrimonio Culturale, Università degli Studi di Salerno |
| Moderator/Chair: | Francesca Dell'Acqua, Dipartimento di Scienze del Patrimonio Culturale, Università degli Studi di Salerno |
| Paper 711-a | The Concept of Hierarchy according to Pseudo-Dionysius and the Pseudo-Hierarchical Vision of His Sources (Language: English) Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Liturgy, Monasticism, Philosophy |
| Paper 711-b | Images of Holy Men in Late Antiquity: Framing Spiritual and Visual Hierarchy (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - Painting, Byzantine Studies, Hagiography, Mentalities |
| Paper 711-c | The Place of Monks in the Corpus Dionysiacum and Its Byzantine Reception (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Byzantine Studies, Lay Piety, Monasticism |
| Abstract | By involving experts in various disciplines, this session will focus on the following questions that have never been specifically tackled before: whether Dionysius's hierarchical vision of the celestial and terrestrial realms could be considered a consequence of a wider late antique-mentality and not simply a development of the Neoplatonic legacy; how Dionysian thought nurtured the development of 'visual thinking' (i.e. a way of memorizing, organizing, and delivering information) that affected also the production of visual arts, especially, though not exclusively, in the monastic milieu. |