The Cross in Medieval Art
Sponsoring Organization(s)
International Center of Medieval Art (ICMA)
Organizer Name
Beth Williamson
Organizer Affiliation
Univ. of Bristol
Presider Name
Beth Williamson
Paper Title 1
The Filigree Reliquary Cross: A Must-Have Object of the Beginning of the Thirteenth Century in the North of France and the Mosan Area?
Presenter 1 Name
Hélène Cambier
Presenter 1 Affiliation
Univ. de Namur
Paper Title 2
Ecclesia and Synagoga on the "Wrong" Sides of the Cross at Chartres Cathedral
Presenter 2 Name
Jennifer Lyons
Presenter 2 Affiliation
Emory Univ.
Paper Title 3
Reconsidering the Monumental Crux Gemmata: Just How Real, and Just How Monumental?
Presenter 3 Name
Joseph Salvatore Ackley
Presenter 3 Affiliation
Columbia Univ.
Paper Title 4
Respondent
Presenter 4 Name
Maggie M. Williams
Presenter 4 Affiliation
William Paterson Univ./Material Collective
Start Date
14-5-2015 1:30 PM
Session Location
Fetzer 2016
Description
Recent art-historical research has brought us new understandings of the central symbol of Christianity, the Cross, in different places, at different times, in different media, and with different theoretical and conceptual foci. The Cross, its representations and significations, and the appearance and materiality of those representations, features in many areas of current research, but not often as a central subject to be dealt with thematically and comparatively. This session invites considerations of images depicting, representing or referring to the central symbol of Christianity, the Cross of Christ, in any media, and across the middle ages, from early to late. The aim of the session is to consider what can be gained at this particular moment in scholarship from a common concentration on the theme of the Cross. Speakers have been invited especially to consider their subject matter in light of theoretical perspectives that have been prominent in recent art-historical scholarship, such as (but not limited to) affect, emotion, movement, medium and materiality.
Beth Williamson
The Cross in Medieval Art
Fetzer 2016
Recent art-historical research has brought us new understandings of the central symbol of Christianity, the Cross, in different places, at different times, in different media, and with different theoretical and conceptual foci. The Cross, its representations and significations, and the appearance and materiality of those representations, features in many areas of current research, but not often as a central subject to be dealt with thematically and comparatively. This session invites considerations of images depicting, representing or referring to the central symbol of Christianity, the Cross of Christ, in any media, and across the middle ages, from early to late. The aim of the session is to consider what can be gained at this particular moment in scholarship from a common concentration on the theme of the Cross. Speakers have been invited especially to consider their subject matter in light of theoretical perspectives that have been prominent in recent art-historical scholarship, such as (but not limited to) affect, emotion, movement, medium and materiality.
Beth Williamson