IMC 2022: Sessions
Session 212: Metaimages, I: Threshold Effects and Micro-Architectures
Monday 4 July 2022, 14.15-15.45
| Sponsor: | International Center of 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 212-a | Micro-Architecture in 12th-Century Roman Painting: History, Typology, and Function (Language: English) Index terms: Architecture - Religious, Art History - Painting |
| Paper 212-b | Performative Structures: Meta-Architecture in Italian Painting (Language: English) Index terms: Architecture - Religious, Art History - Painting, Medicine, Rhetoric |
| Paper 212-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 micro-architectures and their function, typology, and history. The topics range from 12th-century micro-architectures in Roman painting, to architectural settings of the Pellegrinaio frescoes in Siena, to the representation of micro-architectures 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. |