Auralizing the Medieval Image The Music of Ste. Foy at Conques, Bing Concert Hall, Stanford University, 10 February 2023, 7:30 pm PT (In-Person)

Auralizing the Medieval Image

The Music of Ste. Foy at Conques 

10 Februrary 2023, 7:30 pm PT (In-Person)

Bing Concert Hall, Stanford University

From the same artistic and scholarly team who brought a recreation of Hagia Sophia to Bing several years ago, Stanford’s Art and Art History department and Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics group collaborate with Marcel Pérès and his Ensemble Organum to re-create the spiritual sights and sounds from the medieval Office of Ste. Foy at Conques. This first modern musical realization of the eleventh-century liturgical chant features a close connection between melody, golden image, relief sculpture, and the resonant acoustics of the Romanesque architecture of stone vaults.

Learn more about the project here and visit the related exhibition at the Stanford Art Gallery "AudioVision in the Middle Ages: Ste. Foy at Conques" (January 24–March 17). On February 10—the day of the concert at Bing—the gallery exhibit will be open from 1 pm to 7 pm PT.

COST: Tickets start at $30

For more information and to purchase tickets: https://live.stanford.edu/calendar/february-2023/auralizing-medieval-image

New Exhibition: AudioVision in the Middle Ages: Ste. Foy at Conques, Stanford Art Gallery, January 24th - March 17th, 2023

AudioVision in the Middle Ages: Ste. Foy at Conques

Stanford Art Gallery

January 24th - March 17th, 2023

Sponsored by Department of Art & Art History, Stanford University

Photo by Boris Missirkov

Bissera Pentcheva directs the interdisciplinary project “Enchanted Images” which explores the synergy between medieval chant and image. Sponsored by a Cultivating the Humanities grant 2021-2024, support from the Deans of Humanities and Sciences, and Bob and Kathy Burke, this collaborative research is producing three public-facing events in 2023: this exhibition at the Stanford Art Gallery “AudioVision in the Middle Ages: Ste. Foy at Conques (January 24-March 17); a concert at Bing Hall through Stanford Live “Auralizing the Medieval Image,” February 10; and an international symposium “Medieval Art and Music between Heritage, Modernity, and Multi-Media,” February 11.

Gallery Open: 11:00 am - 5:00 pm PT

Opening Reception: Thursday, January 26th, 4:00 - 6:00pm PT

Auralizing the Medieval Image: Friday, February 10th - Bing Concert Hall, 7:30 pm PT

In connection with the Stanford Bing Concert, the Stanford Art Gallery will be open 1:00 - 7:00pm on February 10th

 

Stanford Art Gallery is located at 419 Lasuen Mall. Visitor parking is free all day on weekends and after 4 pm on weekdays, except by the Oval. Alternatively, take the Caltrain to Palo Alto Transit Center and hop on the free Stanford Marguerite Shuttle.


CALL FOR PHD APPLICATIONS: REJECTING AND RECYCLING THE PAST IN REFORMATION CANTERBURY, AHRC/CHASE COLLABORATIVE DOCTORAL AWARD PHD STUDENTSHIP, DUE 13 January 2023, 12:00 PM GMT (7:00 AM ET)

CALL FOR PHD APPLICATIONS

REJECTING AND RECYCLING THE PAST IN REFORMATION CANTERBURY

AHRC/CHASE COLLABORATIVE DOCTORAL AWARD PHD STUDENTSHIP IN COLLABORATION WITH UNIVERSITY OF KENT AND CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL

Due by Friday 13 January 2023, 12:00 PM GMT (7:00 AM ET)

Qualification type: PhD

Location: University of Kent, Canterbury

Funding for: UK Students / International Students

Funding amount: fees and stipend at AHRC rates (for the current academic year 2022-23, the stipend rate is £18,218 - This includes enhanced stipend to cover additional travel costs relating to the project. Please note: this funding amount typically increases with inflation each academic year. The award will cover UK or international fees.

  

The studentship

This collaborative doctoral award will allow one student to intervene in an emerging new humanities discipline, working at a World Heritage Site. Funded by CHASE, it is a collaboration between the Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies at the University of Kent and the Archives and Library at Canterbury Cathedral.

 
Background

This project takes an historical perspective on two issues of urgent present-day importance: the impulse or imperative to destroy certain cultural artefacts (iconoclasm) and the countervailing need to reuse and recycle. The historical lens is the sixteenth century when the destruction wrought by the Dissolution of the Monasteries was met with a concern to salvage and redeploy what remained. Canterbury Cathedral has many witnesses to this in its Archives and Library: fragments of medieval manuscripts reused in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.‘Fragmentology’ is a developing discipline in its own right, and one which can disrupt existing narratives by introducingnew evidence and fresh eyes. This award will place the successful candidate at the heart of this transformative work.

 The candidate

We encourage applications from a diverse range of candidates. Training in the core skills of palaeography and codicology, as well as in Latin, will be provided as required.

 While a substantial number of fragments in the Cathedral’s collections have been identified, there remain many that have not been. The first task of the student, therefore, will be to explore and excavate the collections for relevant examples. The student will be given full training in identifying, recording and analysing the fragments. The student will be encouraged to consider these fragments as evidence as wider cultures of discarding and salvaging. The student will also be encouraged to consider how to make this materials of interest not only to academic but also to wider audiences.

In terms of qualifications and training, having gained or be about to gain either a MA or professional experience in a relevant area would be welcome but, if that does not describe you, do not be discouraged: if you are interested, do contact the lead supervisor (see below).

 

How to apply

Applications for this studentship must be made via the University of Kent application form https://www.kent.ac.uk/scholarships

 

Terms and conditions

The studentship is subject to UKRI eligibility criteria, and will cover home or EU fees and stipend at UKRI rates for a maximum of four years full-time, or eight years part-time study, subject to institutional regulations.

Informal Enquiries

Potential candidates are encouraged to make informal enquiries, contacting the lead supervisor, Dr David Rundle D.G.Rundle@kent.ac.uk

CALL FOR PAPERS: SOUNDSCAPES OF NAPLES: FROM THE MEDIEVAL TO THE EARLY MODERN, 8-9 JUNE 2023, NAPLES

CALL FOR PAPERS

SOUNDSCAPES OF NAPLES: FROM THE MEDIEVAL TO THE EARLY MODERN

CONFERENCE, 8-9 JUNE 2023, NAPLES

Due 31 January 2023

“La Capraia”; Image: Claudio Metallo

Musical practices are inherently woven into a city’s urban fabric: as marker of identity, expression of religious devotion, sonic manifestation of power, or form of entertainment, musicking punctuates the salient moments of a city’s culture. In Naples, for centuries a cultural and political capital and among the most densely populated cities in Europe, music making has always occupied a prominent position in the soundscape of public and private, sacred and secular spaces.


The interdisciplinary conference, Soundscapes of Naples: From the Medieval to the Early Modern, aims to map intersections between the performative dimension of music making and the city’s spaces and places. The organizing committee invites proposals that focus on physical venues (churches, monasteries, theaters, aristocratic palaces, schools, the public piazza, and so on, including their visual programs) as they interface with music performance and production. We welcome proposals on musicking as a cultural practice from musicologists as well as scholars from sister disciplines, including art and architectural history, archaeology, history, literary studies, and anthropology, on themes and approaches such as manuscript and print production, archival studies, music and gender, patronage/matronage, performance practice, history of the senses, acoustics, history of pedagogy, relationships between music and specific works of art, notions of ability/disability, and instrument making.


Proposals should include a curriculum vitae, a brief narrative biography (max. 150 words), and an abstract (max. 350 words), and may be in either Italian or English. The abstract should also indicate the topic’s relevance to the themes outlined above, and whether the proposed contribution could take the form of a presentation on-site at the monument under discussion. Final presentations (20 minutes) may be made in Italian or English. Please combine these materials in a single Word or PDF document with Lastname_Firstname as the title, and send to lacapraia@gmail.com by 31 January 2023. Selected participants will be notified in mid-February 2023.


Soundscapes of Naples: From the Medieval to the Early Modern is coorganized by the Center for the Art and Architectural History of Port Cities “La Capraia” (a partnership between the Edith O’Donnell Institute of Art History at the University of Texas at Dallas and the Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte) and the Butler School of Music at the University of Texas at Austin.

CALL FOR PAPERS: ‘ENCOUNTERS: CHRISTIANS, MUSLIMS, AND JEWS IN MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN ART,' 16TH ANNUAL IMAGO CONFERENCE, DUE 1 JANUARY 2023

CALL FOR PAPERS

‘ENCOUNTERS: CHRISTIANS, MUSLIMS, AND JEWS IN MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN ART’

16TH ANNUAL IMAGO CONFERENCE

DUE 1 JANUARY 2023

Encounters between Christians, Muslims, and Jews were manifold in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern period. In recent decades scholarship has increasingly begun to acknowledge the significance of such encounters for the development of artistic production and visual culture in each of these societies. For example, a shared culture of luxury goods common to the elite of both Christian and Muslim principalities, and the rich dialogue between Jews and Christians pertaining to the production of illuminated manuscripts, have been comprehensively studied. The 16th Annual IMAGO conference consequently aspires to examine the impact of encounters between Jews, Muslims, and Christians on the visual culture and art of the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period. We hope that the resulting papers will not only shed new light on the artistic, social, religious, and political mechanisms involved in such encounters throughout this period, but will also produce fresh insights into the cultural and artistic outcomes of these encounters.

We invite papers in English from diverse points of view: case studies of iconographies resulting from such encounters; studies of the artistic responses to specific conditions of encounters and dialogues; comparative studies on the connections between the Christian, Jewish, and Islamic worlds, etc. Interdisciplinary studies and those engaging with the production, reception, and interpretation of art produced through such encounters are of particular interest. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:

• Artists, artisans, and workshops
• Luxury goods, portable objects, and trade
• Manuscript illumination
• Visual elements in everyday life and the domestic sphere
• Visual agency in acculturation, mission, conversion,
interfaith debates, and polemics
• Images of Jews, Muslims, and Christians
• Use, reuse, misuse, and appropriation of objects
• Quotation, citation, and the migration of pictorial and
architectural motifs

The conference will take place on Thursday, March 2, 2023, at Bar-Ilan University.

Abstracts of no more than 250 words should be sent to Dr. Gil Fishhof (gfishhof@staff.haifa.ac.il) no later than January 1, 2023. Abstracts should include the applicant’s name, professional affiliation, contact details, and a short CV. Each paper should be limited to a 20-minute presentation, to
be followed by a discussion and questions. All applicants will be notified by January 20, 2023, regarding the acceptance of their proposal. For additional information or further inquiries, please contact Dr. Fishhof.

Organizing committee: Dr. Gil Fishhof, Dr. Zvi Orgad, Prof. Jochai Rosen, Ms. Mazi Kuzi, Ms. Masha Goldin

FLYER FOR PANEL

Call for Applications: Short-Term Residential Fellowships for Individual Research at The Newberry, APPLICATION DUE 15 December 2022 11:59 PM CT (16 December 2022 12:59 AM ET)

Short-Term Residential Fellowships for Individual Research

The Newberry, 60 West Walton Street, Chicago, Illinois 60610

Due 15 December 2022 11:59 PM CT (16 December 2022 12:59 AM ET)

Researchers with short-term fellowships spend one to two months investigating specific collection items that are essential to their scholarship.

Supporting scholars who demonstrate a specific need for the Newberry collection.

Stipend: $3,000/month

Length: 1 month

Who can apply: Scholars working in any field. Short-term fellowships are open to faculty members and postdoctoral scholars; PhD candidates with “All But Dissertation” (ABD) status; and scholars with terminal degrees in areas that do not offer a PhD, such as an MFA, MLIS, MSW, or JD.

Short-term fellowship applications are due by 11:59 pm (CT) on December 15.

    • There's a ten-day grace period for recommenders to submit their letter of recommendation. Letters will not be accepted after December 25.

    • Applicants will be notified of their status in late April/early May.


For more information on how to apply and requisite application materials: https://www.newberry.org/research/fellowships/how-to-apply

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

THE CHRISTMAS STORY IN RENAISSANCE ART, Dr. Paula Nuttall, The Arts Society North Bucks, Newport Pagnell, UK, 8 December 2022, 11:00 AM (In-Person)

Welcome to The Arts Society North Bucks

THE CHRISTMAS STORY IN RENAISSANCE ART

Dr. Paula Nuttall

Thursday, December 8, 2022, 11:00 AM

Lovat Hall, Silver Street, Newport Pagnell, UK MK16 0EJ (In-Person)

The Christmas story is related through a series of well-loved paintings and illuminated manuscripts by Flemish and Italian artists.

This lecture tells the Christmas story through a selection of well-loved paintings and illuminated manuscripts by Italian and Flemish artists, including Botticelli, Fra Angelico and Jan van Eyck, together with many less well-known images.

From the Annunciation to the Nativity, the Journey of the Kings and the Flight into Egypt, it explores the rich symbolism of Christmas imagery, highlights the ways in which spiritual ideas and devotional practice shaped the depiction of the narrative, and introduces some less familiar aspects of the story, such as the Midwives and Joseph’s stockings. 


THE ARTS SOCIETY ACCREDITED LECTURER

DR PAULA NUTTALL - Director of V&A Medieval and Renaissance Year Course. Specialist in Renaissance art, both Italian and northern European, on which she has published widely, notably From Flanders to Florence: the Impact of Netherlandish Painting 1400-1500 (Yale, 2004). Has collaborated on major exhibitions including Jan van Eyck: an Optical Revolution (Ghent, 2020). Formerly lecturer at the Courtauld Institute and the British Institute of Florence.


For more information: https://theartssociety.org/events/christmas-story-renaissance-art

Call for Papers: Visualizing Infrastructure in the Middle Ages, Special Session for the 2023 Midwest Art History Society Conference, Due 9 December 2022

Visualizing Infrastructure in the Middle Ages

Special Session for the 2023 Midwest Art History Society Conference

Deadline 9 December 2022

Roads, bridges, aqueducts, canals: all were part of the impressive infrastructural, environmental, and ecological legacy that the Roman Empire left to the medieval world. This session aims to explore that inheritance and subsequent developments in medieval infrastructure through the visual, material, and textual record. The organisers invite submissions that examine remains or representations of infrastructure as well as related matters including but not limited to political power and symbolism, construction or repair practices, materials and media, financing and taxation, and practicalities of transportation and communication. The organisers welcome papers that deal with any period in the Middle Ages with a focus on Europe, the Mediterranean, and the Middle East.

Proposals from graduate students or early-career scholars are especially welcome. Please send abstracts of no more than 200 works and a two-page CV to leson@uwm.edu by December 9.

The 49th Annual Conference of the Midwest Art History Society will be held from March 30 to April 1, 2023 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Those attending will find an iconic example of contemporary architecture and leading research universities within a vibrant cultural setting along Lake Michigan. On Thursday, March 30, the Haggerty Art Museum at Marquette University will host sessions at the Raynor Memorial Library and will offer tours of the museum. That evening, the Milwaukee Art Museum will host the keynote speaker—internationally recognized multidisciplinary artist and member of the Lac Seul First Nation (Anishinaabe) Rebecca Belmore—and a reception. On Friday, March 31, sessions will be offered at the Art History Department of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and tours will be available of the Art History Department’s Emile H. Mathis Art Gallery. For weekend events and more information, click here for the Fall 2022 edition of MAHS eNews.

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: TUCHER-FELLOWSHIP AM GERMANISCHEN NATIONALMUSEUM, DUE 1 FEBRUARY 2023

TUCHER-FELLOWSHIP AM GERMANISCHEN NATIONALMUSEUM

DUE 1 FEBRUARY 2023

Veit Stoß, Drachenleuchter, Nürnberg, 1522 - Auftraggeber: Anton II. Tucher

Every two years the Tucher’sche Kulturstiftung und das Germanische Nationalmuseum award a fellowship to a doctoral candidate for research on a topic in German art and/or cultural history and, if possible, with a connection to the history of the patrician family Tucher. Applications from abroad receive priority.

The fellowship pays a monthly stipend of € 1,500 and makes possible a six-month research stay at the Germanisches Nationalmuseum. The earliest possible start date for the next fellowship is 6th June 2023.

While at the Germanisches Nationalmuseum (GNM), the fellow will:
• be supported by the museum’s curatorial and research staff,
• will have open access to the museum’s facilities,
• be welcome to participate in the museum’s various events.
Furthermore, they will be involved in the museum’s trainee program.

Prerequisites for a fellowship application are a master’s degree (or equivalent) with high marks, candidacy for a doctoral degree, and a very good and proven knowledge of the German language.

Required application materials (preferably in German):
• Research proposal (3 pages, 1.5 spaced), explaining one’s own interest in the topic, sketching the current state of the questions, describing preliminary work already completed, explaining how a stay at the GNM would advance the dissertation project and how it relates to the von Tucher family.
• Abstract of the research proposal (10–15 lines), which, if the fellowship is awarded, may be posted on the website of the GNM.
• Curriculum vitae, list of publications, study and work certificates (as applicable)
• 2 letters of recommendation

The fellow is required to present their findings at the Germanisches Nationalmuseum and also to present a final report at a meeting of the Tucher’sche Kulturstiftung, to which the Stiftung will invite guests and, as the case may be, the press. Furthermore, they agree to provide both the Germanisches Nationalmuseum and the Tucher’sche Kulturstiftung with a written final report and a copy of the dissertation (paper or electronic).

A travel allowance can be requested from the Tucher’sche Kulturstiftung.

Fellows from abroad must be in possession of a health insurance policy that covers possible costs of medical treatment in the Federal Republic of Germany. Proof of coverage must be submitted before the start of the fellowship period. The fellowship cannot be commenced without health insurance coverage.

A residence permit, if required, must be applied for by the fellow themself. The responsible authority in Nuremberg is the foreigners’ registration office (Ausländerbehörde) in the residents’ registration office. (Contact: Einwohneramt/Ausländerbehörde, Äußere Laufer Gasse 29, 90403 Nürnberg, Tel.: 0911/231-45000; https://www.nuernberg.de/internet/auslaenderbehoerde-/aufenthaltstitel.html)

Please submit applications with the requested materials via e-mail (as a single PDF file) by 1st February 2023 to one of the following addresses:

Germanisches Nationalmuseum
Personalabteilung
Kornmarkt 1
90402 Nürnberg
Germany

E-Mail: Bewerbungen@gnm.de

The decision to award a fellowship lies with the Tucher’sche Kulturstiftung and the Germanisches Nationalmuseum. Applicants have no legal claim to a fellowship.

Contact persons:
For questions relating to research: Herr Dr. Markus T. Huber (m.huber@gnm.de)
For administrative questions: Frau Rita Wolkersdorfer (r.wolkersdorfer@gnm.de)

For more information: https://www.gnm.de/museum/tucher-fellowship/

Murray Seminar: A BEAUTIFUL LIE: MEDIEVAL ART FORGERIES IN CATALONIA, ALBERTO VELASCO (IN-PERSON AND ONLINE), 6 December 2022, 17:00-18:30 GMT (12:00-13:30 ET)

A BEAUTIFUL LIE: MEDIEVAL ART FORGERIES IN CATALONIA

ALBERTO VELASCO

MURRAY SEMINAR SERIES AT BIRBECK

Tuesday, 6 December 2022, 17:00 – 18:30 GMT

History of Art Department, Birkbeck 43, Gordon Sq. London WC1H 0PD United Kingdom

A forgery, regardless of the criteria we may apply when studying it - evaluating its artistry or establishing its significance as an illustrative document of a given period - is a deception. The reasons for the production and commercialization of medieval fakes in Catalonia during the first half of the twentieth century are unique and specific, and they are explained by cultural, political and social conditions that, nevertheless, find points of contact in other parts of Europe. Similarities are found especially in those regions and states where medieval past forms a significant part of national historical roots. Catalan nationalism, the fascination with the Middle Ages and the general interest of the Barcelona bourgeoisie in medieval art has led to the appearance in Catalonia of a market for fakes that attempted to meet the growing demand. These are some of the issues addressed in the lecture, where we will deal with some of the most successful forgers, such as the Junyer brothers, and with fake works which, in their day, were certified as genuine by important scholars. Today some of them are in museums, while others make stellar appearances on the art market.

In-Person Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-beautiful-lie-medieval-art-forgeries-in-catalonia-tickets-468335392767

Online Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-beautiful-lie-medieval-art-forgeries-in-catalonia-livestream-tickets-468320829207

MURRAY SEMINAR: GILDED SUNS AND PEACOCK ANGELS: THEATRICAL MATERIALITY AND ART IN FIFTEENTH-CENTURY FLORENCE - LAURA STEFANESCU, 13 December 2022, 16:45 - 18:30 GMT (11:45-13:30 ET), Online

MURRAY SEMINAR:

GILDED SUNS AND PEACOCK ANGELS: THEATRICAL MATERIALITY AND ART IN FIFTEENTH-CENTURY FLORENCE

LAURA STEFANESCU

13 December 2022

16:45 — 18:30 GMT (11:45-13:30 ET) Online

Birbeck University of London

Book your place

In fifteenth-century Florence, the phenomenon of religious theatre and ritual performance, promoted by adult and youth confraternities throughout the city, reached an unparalleled popularity, transitioning from the realm of devotion to that of the spectacular. The highlight of these performances was the materialisation of a multi-sensory heaven on stage and the appearance of its living angels (young Florentine boys) in their dazzling costumes. Painters living in the Santo Spirito quarter, where most of these activities took place, were actively involved in the creation of the apparatus for sacred plays. They were sometimes even members of the confraternities that produced the plays, as was, for example, Neri di Bicci, one of the most successful Florentine painters of the period.

Contact name: Laura Jacobus

Speakers