Ruptures in Italian Medieval Art and Architecture II: Ruptures in Architecture
Sponsoring Organization(s)
Italian Art Society
Organizer Name
Martina Bagnoli
Organizer Affiliation
Walters Art Museum
Presider Name
Catherine Carver McCurrach
Presider Affiliation
Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Univ. of Michigan-Ann Arbor
Paper Title 1
The Anti-Architecture of Francis of Assisi
Presenter 1 Name
Gregory Caicco
Presenter 1 Affiliation
Art Institute of Pittsburgh/DePaul Univ./Univ. of Phoenix
Paper Title 2
Santa Maria Novella and the Birth of Gothic Structural Thinking in Florence
Presenter 2 Name
Elizabeth B. Smith
Presenter 2 Affiliation
Pennsylvania State Univ.
Paper Title 3
The Church of Santo Stefano in Verona and the Problem of Veronese Romanesque Architectural Style
Presenter 3 Name
Meredith Fluke
Presenter 3 Affiliation
Columbia Univ.
Paper Title 4
Stained Glass and the Long Path of Italian Medieval Art
Presenter 4 Name
Nancy M. Thompson
Presenter 4 Affiliation
St. Olaf College
Start Date
10-5-2013 3:30 PM
Session Location
Fetzer 2030
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
Ruptures in Italian Medieval Art and Architecture II: Ruptures in Architecture
Fetzer 2030
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