IMC 2023: Sessions
Session 229: Material Entanglements in Medieval Italian Art
Monday 3 July 2023, 14.15-15.45
| Organiser: | Nancy M. Thompson, Department of Art, St Olaf College, Minnesota |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Gerd Michelluzzi, DFG-Kolleg-Forschungsgruppe 'Imaginarien der Kraft', Universität Hamburg |
| Paper 229-a | Nicola Pisano and the Symbiotic Nature of Craft (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - Sculpture, Rhetoric, Science, Technology |
| Paper 229-b | A Matter of Movement: Aristotle and Tactile Pheonomena in Trecento Painting (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Art History - Painting, Philosophy |
| Paper 229-c | Networks and Materials: Stained Glass at Santa Croce in Florence (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - Decorative Arts, Art History - General, Technology |
| Abstract | While materiality has been a key concern for medieval art historians since at least the year 2000, its cultural, geographical, economic and intellectual entanglements remain still largely unexplored. This session exemplifies three complementary lines of enquiry. Luca Palozzi's paper tackles the multi-material sculpture of Nicola Pisano in light of the symbiotic nature of craft typical of late medieval communal society, and thus reconstruct Nicola's proximity to differently-skilled artisans. Nancy Thompson's paper considers three early 14th-century stained-glass windows in the Florentine church of Santa Croce as complex networks of materials formed and constructed by networks of human labour that stretched from Tuscany to Germany and the Levant. Gerd Micheluzzi's paper re-reads instances in Trecento painting when depicted materials like fabric appear to be deformed by touch in light of the Aristotelian principle that everything that sets a body in motion must itself be a body. |