Saturday, November 6, 2021
The Index of Medieval Art invites you to attend the hybrid conference “Fragments, Art, and Meaning in the Middle Ages,” on Saturday, November 6, 2021 from 10 am to 5:30 pm. Seven speakers will consider the role played by fragments and fragmentation in the medieval and modern understanding of works of art. Papers will address such topics as the use or reuse of fragments in the creation of new works; quotation and replication as a kind of fragmentation; fragmentation of the perceptual or conceptual experience of a work; deliberate fragmentation or fragmentariness; and the modern engagement with fragments as an attempt to reconstruct lost works of art, lost visual traditions, or lost cultural practices. Speakers include:
Morning session:
Gregor Kalas (University of Tennessee at Knoxville), “Fragments of the Arch of the Argentarii and the Early Medieval Remaking of San Giorgio in Velabro in Rome”
Shirin Fozi (University of Pittsburgh), “The Knotted Philology of the Quedlinburg Carpet Fragments: Image, Text, and Context, ca. 1200”
Susanne Wittekind (Universität zu Köln), “Fragmented and Recomposed: Jewellery and Ivories reused on Precious Book Covers”
Afternoon session:
Patricia Blessing (Princeton University), “Fragments of Paradise: Ottoman Wall Paintings in the 15th century”
Henry D. Schilb (Princeton University), “Fragments of What? Three and a Half Ways of Looking at Patchwork Epitaphioi”
Kathryn M. Rudy (University of Saint Andrews), “Fragmenting the Face of Christ in the Late Middle Ages”
William Diebold, Reed College), “‘These fragments I have shored against my ruins’: Medieval Art as Redemption in Post-World-War-II Cologne”
Please note: In accordance with campus health and safety guidelines, on-site attendance in Rabinowitz A17 will be limited to 50 pre-registered Princeton University students, faculty, staff, and others with building access approval from the university. Face coverings are required. Off-campus participants are cordially invited to join the conference online. All registration is free.
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