Academic Sessions: Glasgow 2010
AAH Annual Conference 2010
15 - 17 April, University of Glasgow
Art in the Public Sphere, Public Spheres In Art: Middle Ages and Renaissance
Session Convenors:
Wolfgang Brückle, University of Essex, wbruckle@essex.ac.uk
Jules Lubbock, University of Essex lubbj@essex.ac.uk
Art has helped to define spaces for communication in the public sphere since the middle ages, and its own basic concepts have been shaped by these processes. Correspondingly, genres and themes, methods and tasks have had constantly to be adapted to changing habits of communication in the political communities of European cities. Our aim is to address art in the public sphere from c. 1300 to c. 1600 with a focus on visual discourse and aesthetic experience. Papers in this session discuss the impact of political discourse on the community’s self-fashioning; stylistic norms and social distinction through art; the creation and negotiation of spaces for art and for visual communication; as well as visual communication shaped and restricted by public regulation, and intellectual frameworks in which works of art were beheld, discussed, and made accessible to different audiences.
Speakers:
Wolfgang Brückle (University of Essex)
Discourses of Public Space in Medieval France: Visual Statements and Written Accounts from Paris
Rainer Donandt (Hamburg University)
Brunelleschi and the Refashioning of Public Space in Florence
Benjamin Zweig (Boston University)
Social Control and the Public Image in Late Medieval Sweden: the Case of the Vapenhus
Vera Henkelmann (Schleswig-Holsteinische Landesmuseen Schloss Gottorf)
Chandeliers of Our Lady: Instruments of Civic Self-fashioning and Self-affirmation in Late-Medieval Germany
Jules Lubbock (University of Essex)
The Pictorial Character of Ambrogio Lorenzetti's Sala della Pace: Facture versus Iconography
Jamie Mulherron (University of Edinburgh)
Tapestry and the Public Galerie François I
Laura Jacobus (Birbeck College, London)
Vice, Virgins and VIPs in the Roman Arena at Padua, c.1090-1600
Maddalena Spagnolo (Bibliotheca Hertziana, Rome)
Beyond the façade: Wit and Criticism on Palace Façade Decorations in 16th-Century Florence