06. Juli 2022

Session “Breaking the Boundary - Forces and Counter-Forces in Medieval Italian Art”

International Medieval Congress Leeds

Looking at Italian art of the Middle Ages, this panel brings together perspectives on the dynamics of forces in spaces, situations and imaginaria of boundaries. Pursuing an interest in both spatial and temporal boundaries, the panel traces the forces and counter-forces that have an effect onto the “border” as they form it in a material, spatial or imaginative way. Discussing the forces emanating from borders in Italian art, the panel also sheds light on the semantic potential of borders to stabilize the frameworks or spaces they enclose.

Sponsor: Netzwerk Italienforschung / DFG-Kolleg-Forschungsgruppe ‘Imaginaria of Force’, Universität Hamburg

Organisatoren: Isabella Augart, Kunstgeschichtliches Seminar und Kunstsammlung, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen and Gerd Mathias Micheluzzi, DFG- Kolleg-Forschungsgruppe ‘Imaginaria of Force’, Universität Hamburg 

Chair: Tanja Hinterholz, Institut für Kunstgeschichte, Universität Wien and Gerd Mathias Micheluzzi

Papers:

Against the Wall: Narrating the Border in Representations of Mountainous Landscapes in Trecento Art 

Isabella Augart

Kunstgeschichtliches Seminar und Kunstsammlung, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen

 

The Force of Privation: How Cast Shadows Accentuate Spatial and Ontological Boundaries in Trecentesque Painting

Gerd Mathias Micheluzzi

DFG- Kolleg-Forschungsgruppe ‘Imaginaria of Force’, Universität Hamburg

 

Why Borders?: Reflections on the Construction of Boundaries in Art Historical Discourse 

Tanja Hinterholz

Institut für Kunstgeschichte, Universität Wien

 

Royal Portraits in Serbia and Italy, Late 13th and Early 14th Century: Iconographical Changes and Adaptation to Foreign Policy

Ana Griza

Institut für Kunstgeschichte, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg