IMC 2022: Sessions
Session 811: Borders and Textiles: Iconographic Meanings and Realities of Eastern Textiles and Clothing in the Middle Ages
Tuesday 5 July 2022, 16.30-18.00
| Sponsor: | Discussion, Interpretation & Study of Textile Arts, Fabrics & Fashion (DISTAFF) |
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| Organiser: | Tina Anderlini, Independent Scholar, Russange |
| Moderator/Chair: | Timothy Dawson, Independent Scholar, Leeds |
| Paper 811-a | Exotic Carolingians?: A Critical Approach to Costumes in The Stuttgart Psalter (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - Painting, Daily Life, Medievalism and Antiquarianism, Social History |
| Paper 811-b | Behind the Ottoman Turkish Objects Belonging to Sigismondo Malatesta: Novelties, Ambitions, and Contradictions in a 15th-Century Italian Court (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Artefacts, Art History - Decorative Arts, Social History |
| Paper 811-c | Garments of Strangers and Strange Garments: Truth and Fantasy in Testard's Eastern Clothes (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - Painting, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Social History |
| Abstract | In this session, we will attempt to consider Eastern influences in medieval costume and images of costume from early to late Middle Ages. The first paper will focus on a famous manuscript, the 9th-century Stuttgart Psalter. Can it be regarded as a good reference when it comes to the knowledge of Carolingian costume? The second paper will be on Turkish garments and objects at Sigismondo Malatesta's court about 1450-60, in Rimini, Italy, arguing on the contradictory relationship between Western and Turkish cultures in the second half of the 15th century. The last paper will look at Robinet Testard's works and examine how he marked, through clothing, the border between the near and the far, the real world and the imaginary one. |