IMC 2022: Sessions
Session 312: Metaimages, II: Beyond the Frame of the Enshrined Icon
Monday 4 July 2022, 16.30-18.00
| 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: | Livia Lupi, Department of History of Art, University of York |
| Paper 312-a | Meta-Paintings in Italy and Byzantium Compared (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Byzantine Studies |
| Paper 312-b | Meta-Paintings and Their Viewers: Performing Devotion through Time and Space (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - Painting, Liturgy, Religious Life, Social History |
| Abstract | This second session, dedicated to meta-images and their borders, focuses on the continuous production of images-within-images in Byzantine and Italian paintings through the medieval period. Speakers will reflect on the timeless message these images convey and their ability to move beyond perceptible realities and to connect the viewer to a supernatural realm. Topics will include the imago clipeata from the 6th century onwards as a tool of abstraction from the surrounding space in monumental decorations, metaimages as copies or 'visual quotations' between Byzantium and Italy, and 14th-century metapaintings as reflections of contemporary devotion, and the active role of the late medieval viewer. |