IMC 2020: Sessions
Session 633: Illuminating Borders, II: Centre and Periphery
Tuesday 7 July 2020, 11.15-12.45
| Organiser: | Andrea Worm, Institut für Kunstgeschichte, Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Laura Cleaver, Department of History of Art & Architecture, Trinity College Dublin |
| Paper 633-a | The Vices and Virtues as a Framing Device in Two 13th-Century Diagrams of the Ecclesia Romana (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Paper 633-b | Framing the Cosmos: The Borders of the Diagrams of Opicinus de Canistris, 1294-c. 1352 (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Paper 633-c | Typology: Christological Images - Interpretive Frames (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Abstract | Furthermore, in medieval book illumination the area of the text and/or the picture is originally surrounded by blank margins. However, recent research has shown that artists did not understand margins and borders as limitations but as challenges regarding layout, space, and narrative. Boundaries were explored artistically and gained a variety of functions. In this session, issues of centre and periphery will be addressed more broadly in terms of how interpretive frames are created in medieval diagrams and guide the reader/viewers perception as is the case with the complex diagrams in Vercelli (Shurville) and Opicinus de Canistris (Griffin), but also with typological programs (Worm). |