Medieval Art and Architecture in Southern Italy II: Multiethnic and Multi-religious Environments
Sponsoring Organization(s)
Italian Art Society
Organizer Name
Nicola Camerlenghi, Nino Zchomelidse
Organizer Affiliation
Dartmouth College, Johns Hopkins Univ.
Presider Name
Linda Safran
Presider Affiliation
Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies
Paper Title 1
Remarks
Presenter 1 Name
Nino Zchomelidse, Nicola Camerlenghi
Paper Title 2
The Church of Santa Barbara, Matera: Cultural Mixing in a Tool Shed
Presenter 2 Name
Rebecca Raynor
Presenter 2 Affiliation
Univ. of Sussex
Paper Title 3
Medieval Sicily's Arab-Christian Art-in-Flux? Mutable Crosses and Christian Imagery in the Islamicate Ceilings of the Cappella Palatina
Presenter 3 Name
Lev Arie Kapitaikin
Presenter 3 Affiliation
Tel Aviv Univ.
Paper Title 4
"Tabimurolli Muidem Rep": Pseudo-Kufic, Retrograde Latin, and the Crusades Remembered on the Chiaramonte-Steri Ceiling
Presenter 4 Name
Kristen E. G. Streahle
Presenter 4 Affiliation
Cornell Univ.
Start Date
9-5-2014 1:30 PM
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 II: Multiethnic and Multi-religious Environments
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