IMC 2022: Sessions
Session 801: The Byzantine Virgin Mary beyond Byzantium in the 14th and 15th Centuries
Tuesday 5 July 2022, 16.30-18.00
| Organiser: | Rossitza Schroeder, Department of Art History, St Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary, Yonkers, New York |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Rossitza Schroeder, Department of Art History, St Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary, Yonkers, New York |
| Paper 801-a | One City, Three Virgins: Interpretations of the Byzantine Virgin in Medieval Novgorod (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - Painting, Byzantine Studies, Social History |
| Paper 801-b | Tangled Threads: Tuscan and Byzantine Traditions of the Virgin's Pregnancy (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Byzantine Studies, Religious Life |
| Paper 801-c | Christian Images, Muslim Prayers: Gentile Bellini, Mehmed II, and the Byzantine Theotokos (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - Painting, Byzantine Studies, Islamic and Arabic Studies |
| Abstract | This session explores how various theological and iconographic aspects of the Byzantine Virgin Mary were translated across ethnic and confessional borders. Three case studies consider the ways in which the image of Mary was reinterpreted and woven into non-Byzantine contexts. The first paper looks into monumental programs of three churches in Novgorod, each with distinctive Marian iconographies based on Byzantine sources. The second paper investigates how the transfer of Marian relics from Constantinople to Tuscany impacted Italian Marian imagery and piety. The third paper examines the ways in which the Venetian artist Gentile Bellini reconfigured the Virgin's iconography as a result of his first-hand encounter with the city of Constantinople and her Ottoman conqueror, Mehmed II. |