IMC 2016: Sessions
Session 339: Hospitallers and Art / Hospitallers in Art
Monday 4 July 2016, 16.30-18.00
| Organiser: | Maureen Quigley, Department of Art & Art History, University of Missouri, St Louis |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Maureen Quigley, Department of Art & Art History, University of Missouri, St Louis |
| Paper 339-a | Hopsitaller Nuns and Royal Power: Iconography of the Prioral Seat of Santa María de Sigena (Language: English) Index terms: Architecture - Religious, Art History - General, Crusades, Monasticism |
| Paper 339-b | Appropriating the Hospital: The Crusading Identity of a Hospitaller of St Jacques du Haut Pas (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Crusades |
| Paper 339-c | The Magistral Court of the Order of St John in Rhodes, 1310-1523 (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Art History - Painting, Crusades |
| Abstract | This session examines the visual identity of the Knights Hospitaller of St John of Jerusalem as displayed in the years around and following the dissolution of the Knights Templar. Papers will evaluate how artworks associated with the Hospitallers served to define and strengthen the Order's international identity through patronage, iconography, and appropriation. |