Academic Sessions: Glasgow 2010
AAH Annual Conference 2010
15 - 17 April, University of Glasgow
Intervisuality in Medieval and Early Modern Art
Session Convenor:
Debra Higgs Strickland, University of Glasgow, D.Strickland@arts.gla.ac.uk
Of current interest in the critical analysis of medieval and early modern art, intervisuality or interpictoriality has been understood as the visual counterpart to intertextuality. Simply defined as pictorial references to other pictures, or more colourfully as ‘art infested with other art’ (Leo Steinberg), studies by Michael Camille, Madeline Caviness, Cynthia Hahn, Mitchell Merback and others have shown that the process or concept itself is anything but simple, that it can generate multiple and often complex meanings that serve particular contemporary cultural agendas. We may speak of intervisuality, among other ways, in relation to the redeployment of earlier iconographical formulae in new contexts, to pictorial references across different artistic media, to visual correspondences across visual genres (such as from dramatic performance to static works of art, or vice versa). The papers in this session will examine the problem of intervisuality in medieval and early modern art by using case studies to explore a variety of questions, including: Is intervisuality a concept or a process? Is it the creation of medieval artists or audiences? How does intervisuality generate meaning? What types of cultural work did intervisuality perform during the medieval and early modern periods?
Speakers:
Marius Hauknes (Princeton University)
A Pagan Paradox in the ‘Aula Gotica’: Classical Form and Medieval Meaning in 13th-Century Rome
Federica Giacobbe (University of Glasgow)
The Frescoes of the Crypt of Sant’Isacco e Marziale in Spoleto as an Example of Intervisuality in Medieval Art
Gregory Waldrop (Fordham University)
Painting Priesthood: Iconography and the Construction of Sacerdotal Identity in Late Medieval Italy
Colleen M. Thomas (Trinity College Dublin)
Migrant Monks: SS Paul and Antony as Models of Authentic Monasticism
Eric Hold (EHESS Paris & Humboldt-University Berlin)
‘A Lion Stands for Christ … and Again, Stands for the Devil’: The Anthropology of Visual Ambiguity in Romanesque Sculpture at Moissac
Andrea Kann (Coe College)
See Me, Hear Me, Touch Me, Mirror Me: The Livre des merveilles as a Self-Referential Mirror of Princes
Toos de Peyer (Independent)
Uncanny Devilry: Medieval Marginalia and the ‘Diabeleries’ of Jheronimus Bosch
Matthhijs Ilsink (Noordbrabants Museum in’s-Hertogenbosch & Radboud University Nijmegen)
‘Ars gratia artis’ in Sixteenth-Century Antwerp