IMC 2022: Sessions
Session 1712: Physical and Spiritual Borders within Buildings
Thursday 7 July 2022, 14.15-15.45
Organiser: | Tania Kolarik, Department of Art History University of Wisconsin-Madison |
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Moderator/Chair: | Abby Armstrong Check, Department of Art History, University of Wisconsin-Madison |
Paper 1712-a | Seeing through the Veil: The 13th-Century Intarsia Façades of Lucca (Language: English) Index terms: Architecture - General, Architecture - Religious, Art History - Decorative Arts, Economics - Trade |
Paper 1712-b | Framing the Sacred: Aachen's Relics of the Virgin and Architectural Display (Language: English) Index terms: Architecture - Religious, Art History - General, Economics - Urban, Lay Piety |
Paper 1712-c | Apocalypse Painting as Ecclesiastic and Liminal Borders in Two 11th-Century Poitevin Churches (Language: English) Index terms: Architecture - Religious, Art History - Painting, Biblical Studies, Liturgy |
Abstract | The session explores the materiality and experience of both real (physical) and implied (spiritual) spaces within medieval religious architecture. It addresses the role of art within architecture to delimit and define spaces pertaining to function, from ecclesiastical, eschatological, socio-political, and personal identity. The topics include facades as veils into the kingdom of heaven; textiles as mediators; painting and sculptures as physical and spiritual gatekeepers; female and lay devotion, and the physical Eucharist within Apocalypse. The aim of the session is to explore how visual elements create or enhance spiritual borders that bridge the divine realm with earthly liturgical and devotional practice. |