Ruptures in Italian Medieval Art and Architecture III: Ruptures in Forms I

Sponsoring Organization(s)

Italian Art Society

Organizer Name

Martina Bagnoli

Organizer Affiliation

Walters Art Museum

Presider Name

Cathleen A. Fleck

Presider Affiliation

St. Louis Univ.

Paper Title 1

After the Fall of Acre: Siena and Images of the Virgin around the Adriatic

Presenter 1 Name

Rebecca W. Corrie

Presenter 1 Affiliation

Bates College

Paper Title 2

Pacino di Bonaguida: Artistic Innovator in the Time of Giotto

Presenter 2 Name

Christine Sciacca

Presenter 2 Affiliation

J. Paul Getty Museum

Paper Title 3

Crucifixi Dolorosi: A Violent Break in Late Medieval Italian Crucifixion Imagery

Presenter 3 Name

Meredith D. Raucher

Presenter 3 Affiliation

Johns Hopkins Univ.

Start Date

11-5-2013 1:30 PM

Session Location

Fetzer 1010

Description

Whether moving forwards by leaps and bounds or coming to a screeching halt, the long path of Italian medieval art includes instances of backtracking, progression and return, revival and innovation. These four sessions seek papers that investigate art and architecture created at moments of rupture with tradition, with accepted norms or forms, with conventions or with anticipated developments. Ruptures include, but are not limited to, periods of iconoclasm, proto-renaissances, Church schisms, heresies and reforms, civil strife, Crusades, and the Black Death. To be sure, rupture is in the eye of the beholder: an egregious instance of it for some may constitute continuity for others. Accordingly, papers may address not only what was, but also what could have been, in an effort to trace the footsteps of winners and losers. These panels focus on people, events, ideas, and forms that in one way or another broke with the prevailing course of the arts in medieval Italy.

Martina Bagnoli