23/05/2024 14:00 - 17:30

HALL: FATESI - STURZO

Proponent: Di Cosmo A.P.

Chair: Di Cosmo A.P.

Speaker: Carletti E., Di Cosmo A.P., Kurt T., Łukasz Sawicki B., Raducan A.M., S. Thomas M.

Medieval Christian visual culture in their context. Theological elaboration, emotions, materiality, and techniques"
Panel abstract: "The study of Medieval religious visual culture has experienced a recent new impulse and this panel  is designed for the purpose of rethinking and discussing the Medieval visual production in view of new acquisitions concerning theological elaborations, emotions that are stimulated in the faithful, their relation with the human and natural contests ( for example report with the liturgical space or artificial or natural light), materials used, and production techniques. Theology and Ideology of icons
Icons in Liturgical Context
Icons and Immaterial Culture of the Great Church
 Icons and emotion in liturgical praxis
The Father of the Church and their Reflections on Post-iconoclast Era
The icon as an object: materialities and production techniques
 Techniques and praxis in the production of Medieval visual culture
 Treatises, notebooks, and manuals of iconographers
Circulation of visual products, exchanges, translation, and appropriation
The cult of images: popular festival and anthropological implications
 Materiality in visual production
Continuities and breaks in Medieval praxis production during the following centuries


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O. Demus, Byzantine Art and the West, New York, 1970.
G. Kordes, Icon as Communion: The Ideals and Compositional Principles of Icon Painting, Brookline, 2011.