Material Processes and Making in Medieval Art and Architecture
Sponsoring Organization(s)
Special Session
Organizer Name
Meredith Cohen, Kristine Tanton
Organizer Affiliation
Univ. of California-Los Angeles, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Univ. of California-Los Angeles
Presider Name
Kristine Tanton, Meredith Cohen
Paper Title 1
Did Sculptors Draw? Reproductive Means, Projectual and "Cognitive" Tools in Italian Sculptural Workshops around Giotto's Time
Presenter 1 Name
Luca Palozzi
Presenter 1 Affiliation
Univ. of Edinburgh
Paper Title 2
Gilding Is Silly: Illuminators' Complaints in the Fleur des histoires
Presenter 2 Name
Nicholas A. Herman
Presenter 2 Affiliation
Univ. de Montréal
Paper Title 3
Making of a New Order: Fourteenth-Century Bohemian Canons
Presenter 3 Name
Alice Klima
Presenter 3 Affiliation
Univ. of Georgia
Paper Title 4
Six Floors None the Process: Making Mosaic Pavements in Pavia during the Middle Ages
Presenter 4 Name
Maddalena Vaccaro
Presenter 4 Affiliation
Univ. degli Studi di Salerno
Start Date
13-5-2016 3:30 PM
Session Location
Schneider 1235
Description
Art historians traditionally focus on the finished work, yet attention to the creative process of making allows us to consider how medieval builders and artisans constructed monuments, made objects, and planned workflow for large-scale projects. Furthermore, this line of inquiry allows us to consider spatial planning and haptic encounters. The use of new technologies such as digital reconstructions, laser scans, 3D printing, and other imaging tools provides scholars with the opportunity to understand the conceptual processes of art making in the Middle Ages as never before through reverse engineering.
Recent art-historical scholarship has reintroduced interest in the materiality/object-ness of medieval art and architecture and attendant somatic responses. Analysis of the processes of making is fundamental to this renewed interest in the relationship between materiality and human experience of the art object. Together, these inquiries will yield new insights into the social, economic, political, and practical conditions of production. This session will address multiple media, such as sculpture and manuscripts.
Material Processes and Making in Medieval Art and Architecture
Schneider 1235
Art historians traditionally focus on the finished work, yet attention to the creative process of making allows us to consider how medieval builders and artisans constructed monuments, made objects, and planned workflow for large-scale projects. Furthermore, this line of inquiry allows us to consider spatial planning and haptic encounters. The use of new technologies such as digital reconstructions, laser scans, 3D printing, and other imaging tools provides scholars with the opportunity to understand the conceptual processes of art making in the Middle Ages as never before through reverse engineering.
Recent art-historical scholarship has reintroduced interest in the materiality/object-ness of medieval art and architecture and attendant somatic responses. Analysis of the processes of making is fundamental to this renewed interest in the relationship between materiality and human experience of the art object. Together, these inquiries will yield new insights into the social, economic, political, and practical conditions of production. This session will address multiple media, such as sculpture and manuscripts.