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Assuming no major changes in university or government pandemic protocols, the conference will be hosted in person as well as live-streamed. It will feature eight medievalist scholars, in a wide range of specializations, who will address the many relationships between language and works of art, including the literal use and/or representation of…
Did you know that the Index of Medieval Art database offers fifteen browse lists, including terms for medieval patrons, creators, languages, and types of objects? Or that the Index database uses around 25,000 subject headings for iconography in medieval art, including scene titles, names of figures, and representations of objects, and that all…
- Maria Alessia RossiAffiliationPrinceton University
- Jessica SavageAffiliationPrinceton University
Sponsored by The Index of Medieval Art
Conference TopicSeven speakers will consider the role played by fragments and fragmentation in the medieval and modern understanding of works of art. Their half-hour papers will address such topics as the use or reuse of fragments in the creation of new works; quotation and replication as a…
- Patricia BlessingAffiliationPrinceton University
- William DieboldAffiliationReed College
- Shirin FoziAffiliationUniversity of Pittsburgh
- Gregor KalasAffiliationUniversity of Tennessee at Knoxville
- Kathryn M. RudyAffiliationUniversity of Saint Andrews
- Henry D. SchilbAffiliationPrinceton University
- Susanne WittekindAffiliationUniversität zu Köln
Cosponsor: PIIRS, SHERA, The Department of Art & Archaeology, the International Center of Medieval Art, The Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies, the Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture
Cosponsor: The Index of Medieval Art
Cosponsor: Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies, Program in Medieval Studies, Department of Art and Archaeology, and Steward Fund in the Council of the Humanities