Conference – Romanesque Art: Saints, Shrines and Pilgrimage – 4-6 April 2016 – Oxford

The British Archeological Society Conference

4-6 April 2016, Rewley House, Oxford

Romanesque Art: Saints, Shrines and Pilgrimage

A Three-Day International Conference concerned with the material culture of sanctity to be held in Oxford. There will also be an opportunity to stay on for a further two days of visits

The British Archaeological Association will hold the fourth of its biennial International Romanesque conference series in Oxford on 4-6 April, 2016. The theme is Romanesque: Saints, Shrines and Pilgrimage, and the intention is to examine the material culture of sanctity over the period c.1000-c.1250. The Conference will be held at Rewley House in Oxford, with the opportunity to stay on for two days of visits to Romanesque buildings on 7-8 April.

The papers fall into three broad categories: the geography of sanctity – more specifically the construction of architectural settings for the display of relics, along with the corresponding spatial, scenographic and mnemonic arrangements devised for pilgrims, for the most part at individual sites; cults and reliquaries – considerations of the ways in which reliquaries helped to define a cult, and how they might be designed to draw attention to the particular attributes, virtues or miracle-working character of individual saints; visual hagiography – the public representation of sainthood, how and where this is found, and how and why this changed over the late 11th and 12th centuries.

Speakers include Javier Martinez de Aguirre, Claude Andrault-Schmitt, Mañuel Castiñeiras, John Crook, Gaetano Curzi, Øystein Ekroll, Meredith Fluke, Barbara Franzé, Richard Gem, Deborah Kahn, Jeremy Knight, Ryan Lash, Nathalie Le Luel, Gerhard Lutz, John McNeill, Montserrat Pages, Marta Poza Yagüe, Arturo Carlo Quintavalle, Neil Stratford, Béla Zsolt Szakács, Elizabeth Valdez del Álamo, Michele Vescovi, Rose Walker, Tomasz Weclawowicz and Susanne Wittekind.

LECTURES, LUNCHES AND RECEPTIONS

The conference will open at 09.30 on Monday, 4 April with lectures in the main auditorium at Rewley House (corner of Wellington Square and St John’s Street, Oxford). Teas, coffees and lunches will be provided on all three days, and there will be dinners in Oxford college halls on the Monday and Wednesday.

VISITS

There will be an opportunity to stay on for two days of visits to Romanesque buildings on 7-8 April, including Malmesbury and Tewkesbury Abbeys, Old Sarum, Iffley, Kempley and Gloucester Cathedral.

BOOKING FORMS

These are available to download from the BAA website here.

SCHOLARSHIPS

A limited number of scholarships for students are available to cover the cost of the conference. Please apply by 30 November 2015, attaching a short CV along with the name and contact details of one referee. Applications should be sent to either of the conference convenors; jsmcneill@btinternet.com orrplant62@hotmail.com

The conference welcomes professional and amateur enthusiasts equally.

 

Call for Papers: Spain and Orientalism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries – Association of Art Historians conference (Edinburgh, 7-9 April 2016)

Jones - AlhambraSpain represents a unique and fertile context in which to explore attitudes to the art and culture of the Islamic world. Spain was routinely ‘orientalised’ by northern European cultures in the 19th century, as foreign visitors indulged in oriental reveries when reflecting on Spain’s Islamic past (711–1492) and admiring its ‘Moorish’ remains at the Alhambra palace in Granada, the mosque/cathedral in Cordoba, or the Giralda in Seville. For the Spaniard, however, this Islamic heritage raised potentially disorientating questions about cultural roots and national identity. Spanish attitudes to the Islamic past were further complicated by Spain’s ambivalent relations with the Islamic present in Morocco, ranging from war and conflict (1859–60) to Franco’s recruitment of Moroccans at the start of the Spanish Civil War.

This session builds on recent research by historians of art, literature and culture, whose work has revealed that the European discourse on the Islamic world is much more polyphonic than traditional postcolonial theory assumed. The session invites papers that examine 19th- and 20-century visual responses to Spain’s Islamic past and Spain’s nearest ‘Orient’, Morocco, by both Spanish and non-Spanish artists across all media (architecture, fine art, illustrated books, photography, film, fashion etc.). How did artists translate Spain’s Islamic world into visual formats? How was such imagery produced, viewed, and marketed? What were the artistic, ideological, political, and social positions on which visual responses were grounded? How important were they in the formation of broader attitudes to the Islamic world?

Email proposals for papers to the convenors Claudia Hopkins and Anna McSweeney by 9 November 2015. You can download a paper proposal form at http://www.aah.org.uk/annual-conference/sessions2016/session21

ARTES Coll & Cortes Scholarships Awards, 6.45pm, Wednesday 28th October 2015. Courtauld Institute of Art

collcortes_logoThe 2015 ARTES Coll & Cortes scholars will be announced at a special drinks reception at the Courtauld Institute of Art on Wednesday 28th October, starting at approximately 6.45pm. The scholarships, generously supported by the art dealers Coll & Cortes, were set up in 2014 in order to encourage and reward young scholars studying visual culture in Spain, Portugal and Latin America.2014-06-Courtauld-Somerset House All are welcome, no need to book.

The deadline for submissions for the 2016 scholarships is 31st January 2016: see further details here.

The ceremony follows the first in a series of lectures on Spanish medieval architecture, also sponsored by Coll & Cortes. Further details here.

Exhibition: Francisco Oller (Brooklyn & Puerto Rico)

2015-09-Francisco_Oller-BrooklynExhibition:
Impressionism and the Caribbean: Francisco Oller and his Transatlantic World

Brooklyn Museum, 2 October 2015 – 3 January 2016.
Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, opening 26 January 2016.
Curated by Richard Aste and Edward J Sullivan.
Related publication:
Edward Sullivan, From San Juan to Paris and Back: Francisco Oller and Caribbean Art in the Era of Impressionsim (Yale University Press, 2014)

Exhibition/s: Ana Maria Pacheco, Norwich, until 29 September 2015

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ANA MARIA PACHECO SCULPTURE, NORWICH 2015

Exhibitions extended to 29 September

NORWICH CATHEDRAL The Close, Norwich NR1 4DH North Transept Shadows of the Wanderer

CATHEDRAL OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST Unthank Road, Norwich NR2 2PA North Aisle of the Nave Study for Requiem (John the Baptist I); The Baptistry  Study of Head (John the Baptist III) 

NORWICH CASTLE MUSEUM Castle Hill, Norwich NR1 3JU Castle Keep (balcony level) Enchanted Garden Exhibition catalogue available at all venues

Exhibitions supported by Arts Council England, Norfolk Contemporary Art Society,  Norwich University of the Arts, East Anglia Art Fund Norwich Cathedral Exhibitions Panel and The John Jarrold Trust

Fellowships, Newberry Library (Chicago)

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Newberry Library Fellowships, 2016-17 application cycle.

Respective deadlines:15 November 2015 and 15 December 2015.

Newberry’s  research resources are centered around core collections that include: the History of the Book; Manuscripts and Archives (including Spanish-American Colonial Manuscripts); Maps, Travel, and Exploration; and Medieval, Renaissance, and Early Modern Studies.