Travelling Objects, Travelling People: Art and Artists of Late Medieval and Renaissance Iberia and Beyond, c. 1400–1550
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O Courtauld Institute of Art, em Londres, recebe no dia 28 de maio de 2020 o Congresso «Travelling Objects, Travelling People: Art and Artists of Late Medieval and Renaissance Iberia and Beyond, c. 1400–1550», organizado por Costanza Beltrami (The Courtauld Institute of Art) e Sylvia Alvares-Correa (University of Oxford). A data limite da apresentação de proposta é dia 10 de janeiro de 2020.
Mais informações: https://courtauld.ac.uk/event/travelling-objects-travelling-people-art-and-artists-of-late-medieval-and-renaissance-iberia-and-beyond-c-1400-1550
Travelling Objects, Travelling People
Art and Artists of Late Medieval and Renaissance Iberia and Beyond, c. 1400–1550
The Courtauld Institute of Art, Vernon Square, Penton Rise, King’s Cross, London
9:45 am - 5:30 pm
Registration from 9.00am
Lecture Theatre 1, The Courtauld Institute of Art, Vernon Square, Penton Rise, King’s Cross, London, WC1X 9EW
Hosted by
Dr Tom Nickson - The Courtauld Institute of Art
Organised by
Costanza Beltrami - The Courtauld Institute of Art
Sylvia Alvares-Correa - University of Oxford
CALL FOR PAPERS
Deadline – Friday 10 January 2020
Travelling Objects, Travelling People aims to nuance our understanding of the exchanges and influences that shaped the artistic landscape of Medieval and Renaissance Iberia. Traditional narratives hold that late fifteenth-century Iberian art and architecture were transformed by the arrival of artists, objects and ideas from France and the Low Countries, while 1492 marked a chronological rupture and the beginning of global encounters. Challenging these perceptions, this conference will reconsider the dynamics of artistic influence in late medieval Iberia, and place European exchanges in a global context, from Madeira to Santo Domingo. Bringing together international scholars working on Spain, Portugal and a range of related geographies, it seeks to address the impact of ‘itinerant’ artworks, artists and ideas, and issues of migration and non-linear transfers of materials, techniques and iconographies.
Topics for papers may include, but are not limited to:
- Iberian artists employed abroad, from the master mason Guillelm Sagrera in Naples, to the sculptor Juan de la Huerta at the Chartreuse de Champmol
- The close imitation of northern artists in such works as the Portuguese copies of Quentin Metsys’s The Angel Appearing to Saints Clara, Colette and Agnes (early 16th century, Museu de Setúbal / Convento de Jesus, Portugal)
- ‘Iberian’ objects produced elsewhere, for example Christian ivory carvings made in Goa or Kongo, Afro-Portuguese spoons, and Mexican ‘feather-work’ adopting the vocabulary of northern European late Gothic painting
- Works made for a non-Iberian audience but purchased and displayed by local patrons.
By encouraging conversations across such seemingly disparate topics and geographies, the conference aims to position the Iberian artistic landscape within the networks of artistic exchange that spanned the medieval and Renaissance worlds, challenging the significance of 1492 as a moment of rupture between the Middle Ages and Early Modern periods.
Proposals are welcome from postgraduate, early-career and established researchers working in all relevant disciplines. Please send a title and an abstract of no more than 300 words together with a short CV and 100-word biography to Costanza.Beltrami@courtauld.ac.uk and Sylvia.Alvares-Correa@history.ox.ac.uk by Friday 10 January 2020.