IMC 2019: Sessions
Session 1243: A Global Trecento: Objects, Artists, and Ideas across Europe, the Mediterranean, and Beyond, III - Encounters with Byzantium and Eastern Africa
Wednesday 3 July 2019, 14.15-15.45
| 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: | John Osborne, School for Studies in Art & Culture, Carleton University, Ontario |
| Paper 1243-a | On Sylvan Ground: The Hermit Saints on the Marquetry Choir in Orvieto Cathedral (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Art History - Decorative Arts, Art History - Sculpture, Byzantine Studies |
| Paper 1243-b | The goffa maniera greca in an Unlikely Place: Icons and Intermediality in the Arena Chapel (Language: English) Index terms: Architecture - Religious, Art History - General, Art History - Painting, Byzantine Studies |
| Paper 1243-c | Pilgrims to the Papal Court: An Ethiopian Embassy in Trecento Avignon in Art and Memory (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Art History - Painting |
| Abstract | This is the third 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. It focuses on Italy, Byzantium, and Eastern Africa. Paper -a discusses byzantine sources for the hermits on the choir stalls at Orvieto Cathedral. Paper -b interprets the icon of Christ in Giotto's Arena Chapel as a site of dialogue between Italy and Byzantium. Paper -c examines an Adoration of the Magi in light of the 1306 Ethiopian embassy to Avignon. |