IMC 2022: Sessions
Session 612: Limits of Time, Space, and Meaning: Borders and Transgression in the Medieval Art
Tuesday 5 July 2022, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | Instytut Historii sztuki i Kultury, Uniwersytetu papieskiego Jana Pawła II, Kraków |
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| Organiser: | Dariusz Tabor, Institute of History of Art & Culture, Pontifical University of John Paul II, Kraków |
| Moderator/Chair: | Beata Możejko, Zakład Historii Średniowiecza Polski i Nauk Pomocniczych Historii, Uniwersytet Gdański |
| Paper 612-a | Magical Iconography: On the Borders between Ancient and Medieval Art (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - General, Art History - Painting, Pagan Religions, Religious Life |
| Paper 612-b | The Illuminated Psalter from Trzebnica (Wrocław, University Library, IF 440) at the Turning Point between the Time of Monks and the Era of Elites (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - Painting, Biblical Studies, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Monasticism |
| Paper 612-c | The Duke before the Wall: Some Remarks on the Symbolic Meaning of the City Walls in Medieval Poland (Language: English) Index terms: Architecture - Secular, Economics - Urban, Political Thought, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Paper 612-d | Political Borders and Medieval Studies: A Study of a Polish Painting at the Turn of the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - Painting, Hagiography, Political Thought, Religious Life |
| Abstract | This sessions includes different papers, integrated by idea of borders and its transgression. Grzegorz First studies representations, taken from the magical and religious iconography of Antiquity. He searches in these images for the genesis of medieval iconography and tries to define the borders between ancient and medieval art. Dariusz Tabor emphasises some aspects of Psalter from Trzebnica (Wrocław, University Library IF 440). This psalter is a breakthrough point between the era of common book and the time of aristocratic book. Piotr Pajor examines perception of the symbolic aspects of the city fortifications in the 13th and 14th centuries. Their most basic meaning is urban sovereignty and legal borders and this is a key to interpretation of some artistic artifacts. Adam Spodaryk discusses a panel painting of Penitent St Jerome in the Desert by Michael Lancz von Kitzingen, a Franconian painter active in Krakow between 1507-1523. The paper considers the limitations of knowledge of a contemporary researcher, who tries to answer the question about the ideological content expressed by representation of nature surrounding the hermit. |