IMC 2020: Sessions
Session 509: Metaimages, I: Threshold Effects and Microarchitecture
Tuesday 7 July 2020, 09.00-10.30
| Sponsor: | International Center for Medieval Art (ICMA) |
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| Organisers: | Giulia Puma, Département d'Histoire Université Côte d'Azur Maria Alessia Rossi, Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London |
| Moderator/Chair: | Giulia Puma, Département d'Histoire Université Côte d'Azur |
| Paper 509-a | Microarchitecture in 12th-Century Roman Painting: History, Typology, and Function (Language: English) Index terms: Architecture - Religious, Art History - Painting |
| Paper 509-b | Performative Structures: Meta-Architecture in Italian Painting (Language: English) Index terms: Architecture - Religious, Art History - Painting, Medicine, Rhetoric |
| Paper 509-c | Micro-Architectures and Micro-Landscapes in the Post-Byzantine World: Function, Meaning, and Symbolic Implications (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - Decorative Arts, Byzantine Studies, Liturgy, Religious Life |
| Abstract | These complementary sessions aim to create a new platform for the re-examination of the roles played and meanings conveyed by borders within the medieval image itself by focusing on metaimages. The first session examines microarchitectures and their function, typology, and history. The topics range from 12th century microarchitectures in Roman painting, to architectural settings of the Pellegrinaio frescoes in Siena, to the representation of microarchitectures in Post-Byzantine liturgical containers. The three papers argue that much more than a mere background, representations of architecture should be read as forms of artistic reflexivity, conveyors of cultural and political meanings, and semiotic thresholds. |