ICMA BOOK SALON: WRITING THE MIDDLE AGES & THE RENAISSANCE FOR THE PUBLIC: A CONVERSATION WITH THE AUTHORS, 23 MAY 2023 - Register Today!

ICMA BOOK SALON 

WRITING THE MIDDLE AGES & THE RENAISSANCE FOR THE PUBLIC: A CONVERSATION WITH THE AUTHORS 

TUESDAY 23 May 2023, 5PM ET // 2PM pT

Online via Zoom

REGISTER HERE

Join us in conversation with authors Vanessa Wilkie and Elizabeth (Beth) Morrison, who will discuss the joys and challenges of working with the medieval and Renaissance periods in writing trade books rather than academic works or even those intended for the museum-going public. They will share their journeys to developing an authorial voice for the mass market and take questions from anyone who may be interested in this field outside of traditional career paths for pre-modern scholars.

Free but registration required. Register HERE.

Vanessa Wilkie is William A. Moffett Senior Curator of Medieval Manuscripts & British History and Head of Library Curatorial at The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens and author of the popular non-fiction book, A Woman of Influence: The Spectacular Rise of Alice Spencer in Tudor England.

https://www.amazon.com/Woman-Influence-Spectacular-Spencer-England/dp/1982154284

Elizabeth (Beth) Morrison is Senior Curator of Manuscripts at the Getty Museum and author of the medieval adventure novel The Lawless Land.

https://www.amazon.com/Lawless-Land-Sword-Honour/dp/1801108633

ICMA ADVOCACY SEED GRANT, due 18 May 2023

CALL FOR PROPOSALS
ICMA ADVOCACY SEED GRANT
due 18 May 2023

ICMA ADVOCACY SEED GRANT

The ICMA Advocacy Seed Grant is an annual grant for local initiatives in public scholarly engagement and outreach, student mentoring (from grade school to graduate), and projects that advance the ICMA's commitment to inclusion in the field. These grants could be used to support initiatives including, but not limited to: group visits to special collections/museum exhibitions, curricular development, workshops and student training, community/artist conversations, website design, equipment, and outreach to local classrooms.

We especially encourage applications that will support the initiation or continuation of longer-term projects, but all projects will be considered. Proposals should describe the project’s aims and audience (including short and long-term goals), and the ways in which it will engage the intended audience in a meaningful understanding of medieval art, broadly conceived.

Grants are available for up to US $1,500. Depending on the number of proposals received, the committee may decide to divide the total available funds (US $1,500) into multiple smaller awards or to give the full grant to a single recipient.

All applicants must be ICMA members.

Applications are due by Thursday 18 May 2023. To submit, upload your CV, 1 page proposal (single-spaced), itemized budget, and list of potential collaborators and target engagement audience HERE.

For questions, please contact awards@medievalart.org.

ICMA in LA: Behind the Scenes at Forest Lawn Memorial-Park, Glendale, 29 April 2023

ICMA in LA

Behind the Scenes at Forest Lawn Memorial-Park, Glendale

Study Day

Saturday, 29 April 2023
9:30 AM – 4:30 PM

Did you know that Los Angeles’s most famous cemetery (home to Michael Jackson and Elizabeth Taylor, among others) is also one of California’s greatest monuments to medieval art and architecture? Founded in 1917, Forest Lawn Memorial-Park includes recreations and reinterpretations of medieval British and Italian architecture, replicas of numerous works of Italian Renaissance art, and — as memorialized in Madeline Caviness’s 1994 Speculum article, “Learning from Forest Lawn” — one of North America’s most extensive collections of medieval stained glass. Come discover this legacy through a behind-the-scenes tour of Forest Lawn’s buildings and art collection with curator James Fishburne and art historian Alison Perchuk and hands-on study of medieval and modern stained glass with Indre McCraw, master glass painter at Judson Studios.
 
When: 29 April 2023, 9:30 AM – 4:30 PM
 
Register HERE
 
Due to space limitations, this event is capped at 25 people.

Organizers: Dr. James E. Fishburne, Curator, Forest Lawn Museum, and Dr. Alison Locke Perchuk, Professor of Art History, California State University Channel Islands

EXTENDED! CFP: ICMA SPONSORED SESSION AT CAA ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2024 (CHICAGO), DUE 19 APRIL 2023

Call for Proposals
College Art Association Annual Conference 2024
due 19 April 2023

Submit proposals HERE 

ICMA at College Art Association Annual Conference  

Chicago, 14-17 February 2024 
Call for ICMA Sponsored Session Proposals
due 19 April 2023

The International Center of Medieval Art (ICMA) seeks proposals for sessions to be held under the organization’s sponsorship in 2024 at the annual meeting of the College Art Association. Session organizers and speakers must be ICMA members.  
 
Proposals must include the following in one single Doc or PDF with the organizer’s name in the title:  

• Session abstract  

• CV of the organizer(s)  

• Session organizers may also include a list of potential speakers  

 
Please upload all session proposals as a single DOC or PDF by 14 April 2023 HERE.

The organizer(s) will have until 25 April 2023 to upload their approved proposals on the CAA website HERE.

For inquiries, contact the ICMA Programs and Lectures Committee Chair: Alice Isabella Sullivan, Tufts University, Alice.Sullivan@tufts.edu 
  

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A note about Kress Travel Grants 

Thanks to a generous grant from the Kress Foundation, funds may be available to defray travel costs of speakers in ICMA sponsored sessions up to a maximum of $600 for domestic travel and of $1200 for overseas travel. If a conference meets in person, the Kress funds are allocated for travel and hotel only. If a conference must be held online, Kress funding will cover virtual conference registration fees.
 
Click HERE for more information. 

NEW EPISODE OF THE ICMA ORAL HISTORY PROJECT!

ICMA Oral History Project

We are delighted to announce the latest epsiode in the ICMA Oral History Project, available at: https://www.medievalart.org/oral-history-project. The new episode features Jane Rosenthal being interviewed by Luke Fidler.

The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, Ms. Ludwig XV 1, fol. 7v. Digital image courtesy of the Getty's Open Content Program

About the ICMA Oral History Project:
With the goal of preserving the unique stories and experiences of our longest-serving members and supporters, the ICMA Student Committee has launched the Oral History Project. Students interview members who have made significant contributions to the study of medieval art and the ICMA. In the interviews, these members reflect on their initiation into the field, their lifelong experiences as researchers, professionals, and peers, as well as their involvement in the organization. The recordings available here have been edited for clarity and length. Full recordings and transcripts are archived with the ICMA.

Interviews began in late 2020, conducted online due to restrictions on travel and face-to-face interaction. They continue to be recorded on a regular basis.

Interested in being an interviewer? Click here to sign up.

ICMA Annual IDEA Lecture: Nancy Wu, “John of Marignolli, The Tribute Horse, and East-West Encounters in the Fourteenth Century" (17 April 2023) - in person and online - REGISTER TODAY!

ICMA Annual IDEA Lecture

John of Marignolli, The Tribute Horse, and East-West Encounters in the Fourteenth Century

Nancy Wu, Educator Emerita, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Monday, 17 April 2023
5.30pm ET
Reception to follow

In person and online via Zoom
612 Schermerhorn
Columbia University
New York City

Register HERE

Zhou Lang, "Tribute Horse" (original of 1342 now lost, Ming-dynasty copy). Beijing, The Palace Museum. From Yu Hui, Yuan Dynasty Paintings (Shanghai: Shanghai Science and Technology Press, 2005), 230-231.

In 1342, the Franciscan John of Marignolli, as papal nuncio, presented a horse to the Mongol Emperor of China. When scrutinized, the seemingly cordial exchange reveals a multitude of encounters across temporal and geographic boundaries—over 1,300 years and from Avignon to Xanadu. This paper will discuss and consider the event’s historical and cultural implications against the backdrop of the so-called Mongol Mission in medieval China. 
 
Nancy Wu is Educator Emerita of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, where she was responsible for education at The Cloisters for over twenty years. For decades she has worked extensively on various aspects of Gothic architecture and the Cloisters collection. Since 2020, she has been devoted to the history of the Franciscan mission in fourteenth-century China. 

Register HERE


About the ICMA Annual IDEA Lecture
Convened by the IDEA Committee, the ICMA Annual IDEA Lecture showcases research by ICMA members that engages, in content, method, or disciplinary practice, issues of inclusivity, diversity, equity, and accessibility.

ICMA in London and Edinburgh: Andrea Myers Achi, "The Byzantine Tradition in Africa" - 29 March 2023 (London) and 31 March 2023 (Edinburgh) - REGISTER TODAY!

ICMA in London and Edinburgh

The Byzantine Tradition in Africa

Andrea Myers Achi

Assistant Curator, Department of Medieval Art and The Cloisters at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
29 and 31 March 2023
 

LONDON
Wednesday 29 March 2023 at 6pm BST
ICMA at The Courtauld Lecture 
In person and online via Zoom

Free, booking essential
Register HERE for the annual ICMA at the Courtauld Lecture

EDINBURGH
Friday 31 March 2023 at 5:15pm BST
University of Edinburgh
In person only
Free, booking not required

Lady of Carthage. 4th - 5th century, Marble and green glass, 43 5/16 x 41 3/4 in. Carthage Museum.

About the talk:
In the Fall of 2023, The Metropolitan Museum of Art will present a groundbreaking exhibition that builds upon its long legacy of award-winning Byzantine exhibitions. This lecture will provide an overview of the exhibition, Africa & Byzantium, which explores translations of Byzantine art and culture by local and foreign artists working in northern and eastern Africa from the fourth through fifteenth centuries and beyond. Faith, politics, and commerce across land and sea linked African communities to Byzantium, resulting in a lively interchange of arts and beliefs. The exhibition will broaden public understanding of the Byzantine world, its reach, and its transcultural authority and examine the important role of early African Christian civilizations in this creative sphere. After a summary of the exhibition’s key themes and major artworks, this lecture will conclude with a consideration of what might be gained or lost by expanding the definitions of Byzantine Art and African Art in the context of this significant project.
 

Dr. Andrea Myers Achi is trained as a Byzantinist, and her curatorial practice focuses on late antique and Byzantine art of the Mediterranean Basin and Northeast Africa. She holds a BA from Barnard College and a Ph.D. from New York University. She specializes in the art and archaeology of Late Antiquity with a particular interest in illuminated manuscripts and ceramics. She has brought this expertise to bear on exhibitions like Art and Peoples of the Kharga Oasis (2017), Crossroads: Power and Piety (2020), and The Good Life (2021) at The Met and in numerous presentations and publications. Dr. Achi, also, is an archaeological ceramicist and has participated in numerous excavations in Egypt and Italy.
 

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ICMA AT THE COURTAULD LECTURE
Series made possible through the generosity of William M. Voelkle

Wednesday 29 March 2023
6:00pm BST, lecture
Drinks reception to follow.

In person and online via Zoom
The Courtauld Institute of Art 
Lecture Theatre 1
Vernon Square Campus, Penton Rise
London WC1X 9EW United Kingdom

Register HERE

To allow those unable to attend in person to join this event, it will also be made available live through Zoom.

For those wishing to attend remotely, please select the ‘Online – Zoom’ ticket option. Details on how to join the event will be sent out 48 hours in advance and again on the day of the event. If you do not receive the details please contact researchforum@courtauld.ac.uk

Organised by
Dr. Jessica Barker, The Courtauld
Dr. Tom Nickson, The Courtauld

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ICMA IN EDINBURGH LECTURE

Friday 31 March 2023
5:15pm BST, lecture
Drinks reception to follow.
Doors open at 5pm BST

In person
University of Edinburgh
Lecture Theatre E22
Edinburgh College of Art Main Building
74 Lauriston Place
Booking not required.

Note: please see map below, as the Edinburgh College of Art Main Building
is not readily visible from the street.

Organised by
Dr. Heather Pulliam, University of Edinburgh

ICMA Study Day for "Bringing the Holy Land Home," on Sunday 26 March 2023 - REGISTER TODAY!

ICMA Study Day
Bringing the Holy Land Home: The Crusades, Chertsey Abbey, and the Reconstruction of a Medieval Masterpiece
Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Art Gallery at the College of the Holy Cross

Sunday 26 March 2023
10am-12pm

In person
College of the Holy Cross
1 College Street
Worcester, MA  01610
 

Register HERE

Amanda Luyster and Meredith Fluke invite ICMA members to a Study Day on Sunday, March 26, 2023 in conjunction with the NEH-sponsored exhibition Bringing the Holy Land Home: The Crusades, Chertsey Abbey, and the Reconstruction of a Medieval Masterpiece at the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Art Gallery, the College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA. 

The gallery will be open only to ICMA Study Day participants from 10am-12pm, followed by an opportunity to purchase lunch and eat together on campus.  The Study Day is held on Sunday March 26 in case members are also interested to travel to Worcester for the exhibition symposium, held in conjunction with the NEMC and taking place on campus Saturday, March 25, 2023.

Exhibition website https://chertseytiles.holycross.edu

Register HERE

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Symposium information and registration https://www.eventbrite.com/e/symposium-bringing-the-holy-land-home-registration-511802253317 

ICMA in Aachen: Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum's Newly Reinstalled Medieval Art Galleries - Special late opening, tour, and reception on Sunday 12 March 2023, 20.00 - 22.00

ICMA in Aachen
Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum's Newly Reinstalled Medieval Art Galleries
Special late opening, tour, and reception
Sunday 12 March 2023
20.00 - 22.00

Register HERE
 

A shuttle bus will be provided from Maastricht/TEFAF to Aachen at 19.00 and returning at 23.00.

The ICMA and the Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum in Aachen present a special evening at the museum with a tour of the newly reinstalled medieval art galleries and a reception to follow. 

This event is in conjunction with TEFAF. A shuttle bus will be provided from the TEFAF venue in Maastricht, leaving at 19.00 and returning at 23.00. Please indicate if you'll utilize the shuttle bus when registering.

All are welcome, but please register HERE. There is no cost for this event to attendees.

More information about the Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum can be found here: https://suermondt-ludwig-museum.de/
For any questions, please email: icma@medievalart.org.

This event is organized by Till-Holger Borchert, Director of the Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum.  

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1100-1500 LEBEN, HANDEL, SEELENHEIL

Engel, himmlische und irdische Musik, die Gottesmutter im Wandel der Zeit, die Verehrung des Christkindes, Bildwerk und Reliquie sowie das sogenannte handelnde Bildwerk, das durch Einbeziehung in bestimmte Rituale besonders lebendig wirkte, sind Themen, die das Leben und Denken der Menschen im Mittelalter veranschaulichen. Auch ein Kirchenraum als einem wichtigen Zentrum im mittelalterlichen Stadtleben wird rekonstruiert. Darüber hinaus werden wirtschaftshistorische Aspekte angesprochen. Wo kommt das Holz für die niederländische Skulptur und Tafelmalerei her und inwieweit fungierte das Altarretabel als Wirtschaftsfaktor? Ein spannender Rundgang führt in die mittelalterliche Bildwelt in ihrer großen Vielseitigkeit ein.

KURATIERT VON
Dagmar Preising 
Michael Rief

ICMA in Budapest: "The Island - Saint Margaret and the Dominicans," Exhibition tour and ICMA event on Saturday 11 March 2023, 10.00 - 16.00

ICMA in Budapest

The Island - Saint Margaret and the Dominicans
Exhibition tour and ICMA event
Saturday 11 March 2023
10.00 - 16.00

Register HERE

This ICMA event is taking place in conjunction with the exhibition of the Budapest History Museum dedicated to St Margaret and the Dominican monastery on Margaret Island. The story and fate of Saint Margaret, the thirteenth-century saintly princess, has always captured the imagination of people interested in history. The occasion for the exhibition is the 750th anniversary of Margaret's death in 2020. The exhibition offers visitors a selection of artifacts never exhibited before and presents the result of the last two decades of archaeological research. In addition to visiting the exhibition, the event will also include a visit to the former male Dominican monastery of Buda, as well as to the site of the female Dominican convent on Margaret Island.
 
10.00 
Meeting point 1: Castle Museum main entrance, Budapest History Museum
 
10.00 – 11:30: Visit to the exhibition The Island – Saint Margaret and the Dominicans
Introduction by Zsombor Jékely (Károli Gáspár University)
Introduction to the cult of Saint Margaret, by Gábor Klaniczay (Central European University)
Guided tour in the exhibition by Ágoston Takács, curator of the exhibition (Budapest History Museum)
Coffee break
12.30 – Walking tour in Buda castle, visit to the former Dominican monastery (Hilton Hotel)
 
14:00
Meeting point 2: Margaret Island, ruins of the Dominican Nunnery
Introduction to recent archaeological campaigns at the site by Alex Leonas (Károli Gáspár University)
Visit of the ruins of the Dominican Nunnery, led by Ágoston Takács
15:00 – Discussion and refreshments
 
Museum website: http://www.btm.hu/en/ and https://www.varmuzeum.hu/a-sziget-szent-margit-es-a-domonkosok.html
Brief overview: https://jekely.blogspot.com/2022/12/the-island-saint-margaret-and.html
 
This event is open to current ICMA members as well as to students.
This gathering is informal. Attendees are responsible for their own travel bookings and accommodation, if needed.

The purpose of this event is to introduce ICMA members from the area to one another, to strengthen the social and professional ties in our community, and to celebrate our mutual interest in medieval art, while exploring the exhibition and the sites together.
 
Organized by Zsombor Jékely (Budapest)    

Register HERE

Seal of the Dominican Convent on Margaret Island from 1282 (Hungarian National Archives).

REGISTER TODAY FOR ICMA'S DIGITAL APPROACHES TO MEDIEVAL ART HISTORY FEATURING MAEVE DOYLE AND ALEX BREY! THURSDAY 2 MARCH 2023 AT 12PM ET (ONLINE)

DIGITAL APPROACHES TO MEDIEVAL ART HISTORY 
FEATURING MAEVE DOYLE AND ALEX BREY

THURSDAY 2 MARCH 2023 AT 12PM ET

ONLINE VIA ZOOM

REGISTER HERE

Please join the Digital Resources Committee for this exciting event with invited speakers, Maeve Doyle (ECSU) and Alex Brey (Wellesley College). Following their presentation, committee members, Paula Mae Carns (UIUC) and Nicholas Herman (SIMS), will lead a dialogue about digital approaches to medieval manuscript studies, with a few minutes reserved at the end for a broader discussion with the virtual audience.

Top: A folio from NEP-27, UPenn Museum. Bottom: Women readers in the margins of a thirteenth-century book of hours (Cambrai, Médiathèque municipale MS 87, fol. 113r)

ICMA Statement on the Earthquakes in Turkey and Syria

ICMA Statement on the Earthquakes in Turkey and Syria

14 February 2023

 
Members of the International Center of Medieval Art have been following the tragic events in Turkey and Syria with profound sorrow. We are deeply concerned for the safety and well-being of our colleagues, families, friends, and other contacts in the region, and we grieve for the losses they have suffered. We also mourn the reports of damage to monuments and collections that have for millennia preserved the cultural history of the region. Following the lead of our colleagues in the Byzantine Studies Association of North America, we encourage our members to consider donating to the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, which has launched emergency fundraising appeals in response to the catastrophe.

The ICMA Executive Committee

ICMA at the College Art Association 2023 Annual Conference: Visualizing Peace in the Global Middle Ages, 500-1500; Saturday, 18 February 2023 at 11am ET

Visualizing Peace in the Global Middle Ages, 500-1500
ICMA Sponsored Session

VIRTUAL, click HERE for more information
Saturday, 18 February 2023
11:00 am - 12:30 pm ET

Sassetta (Sienese, active by 1427; died 1450), The Wolf of Gubbio (detail), made 1437-44; part of the San Sepolcro Altarpiece series. Egg tempera on poplar, 87 x 52.4 cm. Bought with contributions from the Art Fund, Benjamin Guinness and Lord Bearsted, 1934, NG4762 Ⓒ The National Gallery, London.

Organized by Jitske Jasperse (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Scientíficas, Madrid) and Diane Wolfthal (Rice University)

Introductory Remarks
Diane Wolfthal (Rice University)
 

Growth in the Cathedral: Signs of Peace through Royal Display
Alice Klima (University of Georgia)

The Subversive Peace of the Alleluja in 1233
Ludovico V. Geymonat (Louisiana State University)
 

Celebrating Normal Life under the Shadow of Wars: Visualization of Peace in Three Paintings from Southern Song (1127-1279) China
Wei Zhao (The Institute of Fine Arts, New York University)
 

Concluding remarks
Jitske Jasperse  (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Scientíficas, Madrid)

ICMA 2023 Forsyth Lecture in Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Missouri: Kathryn Rudy - Dirty Digital Books, 7-13 February 2023

2023 ICMA Forsyth Lectures
 

Dirty Digital Books
Dr. Kathryn Rudy  
Professor, School of Art History, University of St. Andrews

7-13 February 2023 in Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Missouri (details below)

Join us for a dynamic lecture exploring the intersections of technology and medieval book history. Esteemed manuscript scholar Dr. Rudy will discuss new research related to her project “Dirty Books,” which uses technology to understand how books of hours were read and handled in the late middle ages. The most used sections became darkened with fingerprints, which she has analyzed with a machine called a densitometer. Her new project makes use of digital resources in addition to hands-on study, benefiting from recent initiatives to digitize manuscripts and make them available online.

An internationally-recognized scholar of the reception and function of medieval manuscripts, Kathryn (Kate) Rudy is Bishop Wardlaw Professor of Art History at the University of St Andrews, a member of the St Andrews Institute of Medieval Studies, and the Director of the Centre for the Study of Medieval Manuscripts and Technology. She is also an Excellence Professor at Radboud University in Nijmegen, Netherlands.

Venues

*note - all lectures are in person only and will not be recorded

Oklahoma State University (Stillwater)
Tuesday, 7 February at 4:30pm
Helmerich Reading Room, OSU Library

contact: Jennifer Borland, jennifer.borland@okstate.edu
 

University of Arkansas (Fayetteville)
Thursday, 9 February at 5:15 pm
Gearhart 26

contact: Mary Beth Long, marylong@uark.edu
 

University of Missouri-Kansas City
Monday, 13 February at 3:30pm
Miller Nichols Library Room 451

contact: Virginia Blanton, blantonv@umkc.edu

These events have been supported by the International Center of Medieval Art's Forsyth Lecture Fund as well as Oklahoma State University, University of Arkansas, and University of Missouri-Kansas City.


 

About the Forsyth Lectureship in Medieval Art 

The late Ilene Forsyth established The Forsyth Lectureship in Medieval Art in memory of medievalists George H. Forsyth, Jr. (Professor of Fine Arts and Director of the Kelsey Museum of Ancient and Medieval Archaeology at the University of Michigan) and William H. Forsyth (Curator, The Metropolitan Museum of Art). It is intended to sponsor a lecture by a distinguished scholar of medieval art to be presented at multiple venues. These lectures are typically held every other year. 

Keep the ICMA’s programming strong! There are many ways to support the organization and we are grateful for the generosity of our donors. You can give to a named fund HERE or contribute an unrestricted gift HERE. To learn about planned giving, click HERE.

You are invited! The ICMA Annual Meeting - IN PERSON - on Friday 17 February 2023. RSVP today!

YOU ARE INVITED!

ICMA Annual Meeting
IN PERSON, New York City

Friday, 17 February 2023
7:30pm - 9:30pm

The Raines Law Room at The William
24 East 39th Street (between Park and Madison)
New York, New York    10016

RSVP HERE

Royal Reception in a Landscape, left folio from the double frontispiece of a Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Firdausi (Persian, about 940–1019 or 1025), 1444. Iran, Shiraz, Timurid period (1370-1501). Opaque watercolor, ink, gold and silver on paper Recto Image: 26.1 x 20.7 cm (10 1/4 x 8 1/8 in.); Overall: 32.7 x 22 cm (12 7/8 x 8 11/16 in.). John L. Severance Fund 1956.10, Cleveland Museum of Art.

The ICMA Annual Meeting is open to all members and their guests. It is a social event with about 20 minutes of speeches, announcements, and thank-yous to colleagues for their service to the organization. We especially have reasons to celebrate — a return to the feasibility of in-person gatherings and an opportunity to toast President Nina Rowe’s term at the helm of the ICMA. The rest of the time will be an opportunity for ICMA members to reconnect. Hope to see you there!

The venue is an indoor/outdoor space (with heating lamps), so you'll be able to pick an area that best suits your comfort zone.

RSVP HERE

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We would like to celebrate the triumphs of colleagues over the past few years! We will put together a rotating PowerPoint, showcasing the professional achievements of ICMA members from 2020 to 2023. Whether you plan to attend the gathering or not, please let us know if you have published a book, been tenured or promoted, gotten a new job, taken on a new administrative role, retired, or otherwise reached a milestone worthy of a toast!

Upload text and pics (of yourself, book covers, or whatever is relevant) HERE by Friday 10 February 2023, 9am.

Announcing the 2022 ICMA Annual Book Prize Recipient

ICMA Annual Book Prize

We are delighted to announce the recipient of the 2022 ICMA Annual Book Prize:

Shirin Fozi

Romanesque Tomb Effigies: Death and Redemption in Medieval Europe, 1000–1200

The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2021.
Click here for the Penn State University Press site.

The straightforward title of Shirin Fozi’s Romanesque Tomb Effigies both offers homage to the classic iconographic studies to which it is heir and belies the important ways in which this volume disrupts traditional approaches to the analysis of sculptural tombs dating to the late eleventh through twelfth centuries in northern Europe. In this compelling, rigorously researched and elegantly written book, the author investigates the phenomenon of figural tomb sculpture in its earliest medieval period of emergence, setting aside the anachronistic narrative that has long framed these works simply as precursors to the great flowering of figural tombs in the thirteenth through fifteenth centuries. Instead, close analysis of the archeological, textual, epigraphic, and social context of a series of works mostly from northern Germany and France allows Fozi to account for them in their own settings. At the center of the book lies the argument that these early effigy tombs consistently mark communal interventions into troubled histories of loss and failure, serving to recuperate, reframe, and reorient the pasts of living communities through the represented bodies of the dead. This is a mature work of scholarship that speaks of longstanding and intimate acquaintance with the works under consideration, some of which, such as the Plantagenet funerary monuments at Fontevrault with which the book concludes, are well known, but others of which have received less attention than they deserve, especially in English-language scholarship. Engaged with current discourses about the cultural construction of space, memory, body, and material, the study ultimately centers the objects themselves as the protagonists in the narrative, resulting in a book that will serve as a model and departure point for future scholarship, and one that is eminently readable for audiences ranging from interested amateurs, to undergraduates, to professional medievalists in a variety of fields.
 
We thank the ICMA Book Prize Jury:
Alexa Sand (chair), Heather Badamo, Péter Bokody, Dorothy Glass, and Eric Ramirez-Weaver

New Video: Mining the Collection, Crusades and Canivet: Curious Treasures from the Walters Art Museum

New Mining the Collection Video

Crusades and Canivet: Curious Treasures from the Walters Art Museum

Lynley Anne Herbert, Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts & Curatorial Chair, Christine Sciacca, Curator of European Art, 300–1400 CE

Introduced and Moderated by Evan Freeman, Former ICMA Coordinator for Digital Engagement

The De Bar Hours (W.93) and Male Figure, so-called Crusader (54.558)

Nearly a century after its founding, the Walters Art Museum continues to be a place of remarkable discovery, with tantalizingly strange objects haunting the storage shelves. Dr. Lynley Anne Herbert, Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts & Curatorial Chair, and Dr. Christine Sciacca, Curator of European Art, 300-1400 CE, explore two mysterious medieval oddities: a bronze figure of unknown origin possibly representing a crusader, and a lace-cut manuscript with no known precedent.

The video can be watched on the Mining the Collection page.

Read ICMA News, Autumn 2022 online!

ICMA News               

Autumn 2022
Melanie Hanan, Editor

Click here to read.
Also available on www.medievalart.org

INSIDE

Commemorations
Ilene H. Forsyth, 1928–2022
Michel David-Weill, 1932–2022

Special Features
Reflection Why I Decided to Work on the Franciscans in Fourteenth-Century China, by Nancy Wu

Reflection (and Resource) Reflections on Writing Art and Architecture of the Middle Ages, by Linda Safran, Adam S. Cohen, and Jill Caskey

Exhibition Reports 
Gold: 50 Spectacular Manuscripts from Around the World, by Leylim Erenel

The Fantasy of the Middle Ages, by Alex Kaczenski

Events and Opportunities
 

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The deadline for the next issue of ICMA News is 15 February 2023. Please send information to newsletter@medievalart.org 

If you would like your upcoming conference, CFP, or exhibition included in the newsletter please email the information to EventsExhibitions@medievalart.org.

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NEW VIDEO: FRIENDS OF THE ICMA PRESENTS MEDIEVAL COMING ATTRACTIONS, 15 NOVEMBER 2022

FRIENDS OF THE ICMA

PRESENTS

MEDIEVAL COMING ATTRACTIONS

15 NOVEMBER 2022

The Friends of the ICMA held their latest in a series of special online events on Tuesday, November 15, 2022 at 12:00pm ET (9:00am PT; 5:00pm GMT; and 6:00pm CET). The hour-long program previewed three medieval exhibitions scheduled to open in 2023, each introduced by its curator in charge.

The event can now be viewed on the Special Online Lectures page of the ICMA website: https://www.medievalart.org/special-online-lectures

NEW VIDEO: ICMA VIEWPOINTS BOOK LAUNCH, DESTROYED-DISAPPEARED-LOST-NEVER WERE EDITED BY BEATE FRICKE AND ADEN KUMLER

ICMA Viewpoints Book Launch

Destroyed-Disappeared-Lost-Never Were edited by Beate Fricke and Aden Kumler

Online, Wednesday, 31 August at 3-4pm ET

with Beate Fricke, Aden Kumler, Roland Betancourt, Eleanor Goodman, Elizabeth Sears, Sonja Drimmer, and Michelle McCoy

To watch: https://www.medievalart.org/special-online-lectures

To write about works that cannot be sensually perceived involves considerable strain. Absent the object, art historians must stretch their methods to, or even past, the breaking point. This concise volume addresses the problems inherent in studying medieval works of art, artifacts, and monuments that have disappeared, have been destroyed, or perhaps never existed in the first place.

The contributors to this volume are confronted with the full expanse of what they cannot see, handle, or know. Connecting object histories, the anthropology of images, and historiography, they seek to understand how people have made sense of the past by examining objects, images, and architectural and urban spaces. Intersecting these approaches is a deep current of reflection upon the theorization of historical analysis and the ways in which the past is inscribed into layers of evidence that are only ever revealed in the historian’s present tense.

Highly original and theoretically sophisticated, this volume will stimulate debate among art historians about the critical practices used to confront the formative presence of destruction, loss, obscurity, and existential uncertainty within the history of art and the study of historical material and visual cultures. In addition to the editors, the contributors to this volume are Michele Bacci, Claudia Brittenham, Sonja Drimmer, Jaś Elsner, Peter Geimer, Danielle B. Joyner, Kristopher W. Kersey, Lena Liepe, Meekyung MacMurdie, and Michelle McCoy.