Session 509
Metaimages, I: Threshold Effects and Microarchitecture
Tuesday 7 July 2020: 09.00-10.30 

Organiser
Giulia Puma, Département d'Histoire, Université Côte d'Azur
Maria Alessia Rossi, Index of Medieval Art, Princeton University

Moderator/Chair
Giulia Puma, Département d'Histoire, Université Côte d'Azur 

These complementary sessions (also: Metaimages, II: Beyond the Frame of the Enshrined Icon, 11:15-12:45pm) aim to create a new platform for the re-examination of the roles played and meanings conveyed by borders within the medieval image itself by focusing on metaimages. The first session examines microarchitectures and their function, typology, and history. The topics range from 12th century microarchitectures in Roman painting, to architectural settings of the Pellegrinaio frescoes in Siena, to the representation of microarchitectures in Post-Byzantine liturgical containers. The three papers argue that much more than a mere background, representations of architecture should be read as forms of artistic reflexivity, conveyors of cultural and political meanings, and semiotic thresholds.

Microarchitecture in 12th-Century Roman Painting: History, Typology, and Function
(Language: English)
Alison Locke Perchuk, Department of Art, California State University, Channel Islands

Performative Structures: Meta-Architecture in Italian Painting
(Language: English)
Livia Lupi, Department of the History of Art, University of Warwick

Micro-Architectures and Micro-Landscapes in the Post-Byzantine World: Function, Meaning, and Symbolic Implications
(Language: English)
Anita Paolicchi, Dipartimento di Storia, Archeologia, Geografia, Arte e Spettacolo, Università di Firenze / Dipartimento di Civiltà e Forme del Sapere, Università di Pisa