IMC 2022: Sessions

Session 1733: Reusing and Showing: Boundaries between Re-Employment and Collecting of Medieval Sculpture during the Modern Age, 15th-18th Centuries

Thursday 7 July 2022, 14.15-15.45

Sponsor:	Project 'MemId: Memoria e identità. Riuso, rilavorazione e riallestimento della scultura medievale in Età moderna, tra ricerca storica e nuove tecnologie'
Organisers:	Antonella Dentamaro, Dipartimento di Architettura, Università degli Studi di Napoli - Federico II Francesca Girelli, Dipartimento di Italianistica, Romanistica, Antichistica, Arti e Spettacolo, Università degli Studi di Genova
Moderator/Chair:	Iliana Kasarska, Centre André Chastel (UMR 8150), Sorbonne Université, Paris
Paper 1733-a	The Post-Medieval Life of the Last Judgment Portal Sculptures at Reims Cathedral (Language: English) Jennifer M. Feltman, Department of Art & Art History, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa Index terms: Architecture - General, Architecture - Religious, Archives and Sources, Art History - Sculpture
Paper 1733-b	Memory, Bourgeois Identity, and Civic Sense: Bonino da Campione's Artworks in Cremona and Their Reuse in the Modern Age (Language: English) Gigliola Gorio, Dipartimento di Lettere e Filosofia, Università degli Studi di Trento Index terms: Architecture - General, Architecture - Religious, Archives and Sources, Art History - Sculpture
Paper 1733-c	The Medieval Taste for Antiquity as a Key for Reuse in a Modern Collection: Four Statues of Prophets in the Palazzo Medici Riccardi, Florence (Language: English) Aurora Corio, Dipartimento di Italianistica, Romanistica, Antichistica, Arti e Spettacolo, Università degli Studi di Genova Index terms: Archives and Sources, Art History - Sculpture, Medievalism and Antiquarianism
Abstract	The 'long life' of medieval sculpture, through practices of reuse and rearrangement in the course of the subsequent centuries, represents a phenomenon of great cultural vitality to be investigated as a process, with its complex dynamics. The exposition of reused sculptures in decorative and monumental contexts of a certain complexity can sometimes be assimilated to a 'collection' of artworks, inspired by the desire to convey emblematic messages related to processes of social affirmation, cultural transformations, institutional claims. The papers of this session investigate the borders and permeability between 'reuse' and 'collecting' of medieval sculptures in the Modern Age through the analysis of significant case studies in Italy and France, also dealing with topics like reception and visibility, preservation of memory, collection of antiquities.