IMC 2018: Sessions
Session 530: Memory Depicted, I
Tuesday 3 July 2018, 09.00-10.30
| Sponsor: | Universiteit van Amsterdam |
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| Organiser: | Wendelien A. W. Van Welie-Vink, Afdeling Kunst- en cultuurwetenschappen, Universiteit van Amsterdam |
| Moderator/Chair: | Julian Gardner, Department of the History of Art, University of Warwick |
| Paper 530-a | Remembering the Dead: Albert of Ouwater's Raising of Lazarus Revisited (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Art History - Painting |
| Paper 530-b | The Use of Holy Heads in Memory (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Art History - Decorative Arts, Art History - Painting |
| Paper 530-c | The Forgotten Iconography of St James: The Evolution of an Apostle Becoming a Warrior Saint and Pilgrim (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Art History - Decorative Arts, Art History - Painting |
| Abstract | The visualisation of memory in medieval art is a complex topic for art historians. Memory itself is not material, but material arts play a crucial role in various processes of remembering. In both sessions, we will investigate the various manners in which iconography and decoration is used by the medieval artist to visualise the desire of patrons to remember and be remembered. The fear of oblivion inspired many patrons and resulted in the production of a vast body of artworks. Besides this individual memory, the supposed collective memory, instigated or not, will be researched. Think of ancestral memory, culural tradition and conflicting heritages. |