Medieval Art and Architecture in Southern Italy I: Mobility and Materiality
Sponsoring Organization(s)
Italian Art Society
Organizer Name
Nicola Camerlenghi, Nino Zchomelidse
Organizer Affiliation
Dartmouth College, Johns Hopkins Univ.
Presider Name
Dorothy F. Glass
Presider Affiliation
Univ. at Buffalo
Paper Title 1
The Cult of Saints and Artistic Patronage in Early Christian Campania: Some Observations on the Funerary Areas of Nola, Capua, and Naples
Presenter 1 Name
Chiara Croci
Presenter 1 Affiliation
Univ. de Lausanne/Univ. Münster
Paper Title 2
Between Divine and Human: Veneration of Saints in the Cripta Santa Margherita in Melfi
Presenter 2 Name
Danijela Zutic
Presenter 2 Affiliation
McGill Univ.
Paper Title 3
A Syncretic Model and Its Success: The Liturgical Installations at Salerno
Presenter 3 Name
Elisabetta Scirocco
Presenter 3 Affiliation
Univ. Univ. degli Studi di Napoli Federico II/Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz
Paper Title 4
Gifts for Saint Nick: Charles II and San Nicola in Bari
Presenter 4 Name
Jill Caskey
Presenter 4 Affiliation
Univ. of Toronto
Start Date
9-5-2014 10:00 AM
Session Location
Bernhard 209
Description
For the first time this series of sessions brings into comprehensive scholarly focus the exceptionally high standard and wide range of artistic and architectural creativity in medieval southern Italy. The overarching aim is to shed light on the importance of the region with an eye to recent developments in medieval art history and medieval studies at large. The specific historical situation of Italy’s southern regions and islands—which were exposed to a long sequence of military invasions, subjected to foreign rulers and centrally positioned within the Mediterranean—resulted in a fascinating, often interconnected, artistic and architectural landscape. Papers raising larger theoretical and historiographic aspects are particularly welcome. This series of sessions at Kalamazoo provides a platform for the different viewpoints and varied aims of the growing number of scholars working on southern Italian medieval art and architecture.
Nicola Camerlenghi
Medieval Art and Architecture in Southern Italy I: Mobility and Materiality
Bernhard 209
For the first time this series of sessions brings into comprehensive scholarly focus the exceptionally high standard and wide range of artistic and architectural creativity in medieval southern Italy. The overarching aim is to shed light on the importance of the region with an eye to recent developments in medieval art history and medieval studies at large. The specific historical situation of Italy’s southern regions and islands—which were exposed to a long sequence of military invasions, subjected to foreign rulers and centrally positioned within the Mediterranean—resulted in a fascinating, often interconnected, artistic and architectural landscape. Papers raising larger theoretical and historiographic aspects are particularly welcome. This series of sessions at Kalamazoo provides a platform for the different viewpoints and varied aims of the growing number of scholars working on southern Italian medieval art and architecture.
Nicola Camerlenghi