IMC 2019: Sessions
Session 1043: A Global Trecento: Objects, Artists, and Ideas across Europe, the Mediterranean, and Beyond, I - Anglo-Italian Connections
Wednesday 3 July 2019, 09.00-10.30
| Sponsor: | University of Edinburgh |
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| Organisers: | Claudia Bolgia, Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh Luca Palozzi, Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh |
| Moderator/Chair: | Julian Gardner, Department of the History of Art, University of Warwick |
| Respondent: | Laura Jacobus, Department of History of Art & Screen Media, Birkbeck, University of London |
| Paper 1043-a | Sculpens in alabastro splendida: Contextualising English Alabasters in the Material Culture of the Medieval Mediterranean (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Art History - Decorative Arts, Art History - Painting, Art History - Sculpture |
| Paper 1043-b | Bologna and Europe: Artists, Saints, and Patrons - St Thomas Becket and the Polyptych of San Salvatore (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Art History - Painting, Hagiography |
| Abstract | This is the first of a four-session series aiming to discuss how the transformative character of the Trecento is indebted to cultural exchanges, movement of artists and patrons, circulation of models and ideas across Italy, Europe, the Mediterranean and beyond. This session focuses on Italy, France, and England. Paper -a reinterprets the diffusion of English alabasters in the Medieval Mediterranean. Paper -b explores Bologna's multiple ties to France and England through a discussion of lesser-known 14th-century artworks. |