Crossing the Hanseatic Threshold and Beyond: Making Connections in Medieval Art, ca. 1200-1500
Sponsoring Organization(s)
International Center of Medieval Art (ICMA) Student Committee
Organizer Name
Lehti Mairike Keelmann, Laura Tillery
Organizer Affiliation
Univ. of Michigan-Ann Arbor, Univ. of Pennsylvania
Presider Name
Lehti Mairike Keelmann
Paper Title 1
Artists Abroad: The Dawn of Rhennish Gothic Ivory Carving
Presenter 1 Name
Dustin Aaron
Presenter 1 Affiliation
Courtauld Institute of Art/Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Paper Title 2
The Value of Reliquaries in the Hanseatic League
Presenter 2 Name
Andrew R. Sears
Presenter 2 Affiliation
Univ. of California-Berkeley
Paper Title 3
From Distant Places to Mercantile Spaces: Late Medieval Altarpieces in Hanseatic Lübeck
Presenter 3 Name
Laura Tillery
Start Date
12-5-2016 3:30 PM
Session Location
Schneider 1225
Description
Crossing the Hanseatic Threshold and Beyond: Making Connections in Medieval Art, c. 1200-1500
The Hanse, also known as the Hanseatic League, was a trade network of merchants and cities across the Northern and Baltic Seas that flourished in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Due to its geographic reach, the Hanse provided a framework to connect distant towns, peoples, cultures, ideas, and materials together. This session aims to explore the often-overlooked artistic production in the transnational Hanseatic region. Artistic exchange across Hanse trade routes was extensive and wide reaching. Art objects traveled long distances and were produced with great variety to reflect the multi-faceted identities and goals of their patrons.
Papers will address artistic circulation, mobility, exchange, networks, identity, media, and/or patronage in the Hanseatic arena. Larger questions on ‘Hanseatic art’, Hanse art historical historiography, and the self-fashioning of Hanse merchants or patrons will also be interrogated. More generally, papers will explore art and mercantile trade in littoral and riverine towns in Europe, c. 1200-1500.
This session is sponsored by the Student Committee of the International Center of Medieval Art. The ICMA Student Committee involves and advocates for all members with student status. As a committee that addresses the concerns of students, we see this session as a forum for discussion and informal mentorship within our field.
Session Co-Organizers:
Lehti Mairike Keelmann, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Laura Tillery, University of Pennsylvania
Crossing the Hanseatic Threshold and Beyond: Making Connections in Medieval Art, ca. 1200-1500
Schneider 1225
Crossing the Hanseatic Threshold and Beyond: Making Connections in Medieval Art, c. 1200-1500
The Hanse, also known as the Hanseatic League, was a trade network of merchants and cities across the Northern and Baltic Seas that flourished in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Due to its geographic reach, the Hanse provided a framework to connect distant towns, peoples, cultures, ideas, and materials together. This session aims to explore the often-overlooked artistic production in the transnational Hanseatic region. Artistic exchange across Hanse trade routes was extensive and wide reaching. Art objects traveled long distances and were produced with great variety to reflect the multi-faceted identities and goals of their patrons.
Papers will address artistic circulation, mobility, exchange, networks, identity, media, and/or patronage in the Hanseatic arena. Larger questions on ‘Hanseatic art’, Hanse art historical historiography, and the self-fashioning of Hanse merchants or patrons will also be interrogated. More generally, papers will explore art and mercantile trade in littoral and riverine towns in Europe, c. 1200-1500.
This session is sponsored by the Student Committee of the International Center of Medieval Art. The ICMA Student Committee involves and advocates for all members with student status. As a committee that addresses the concerns of students, we see this session as a forum for discussion and informal mentorship within our field.
Session Co-Organizers:
Lehti Mairike Keelmann, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Laura Tillery, University of Pennsylvania