REFINEMENT AND/OR REDUCTION REVISITED: Gothic Art, Architecture and Culture, c. 1250 to 1350
When:
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Venue:
Birkbeck 43 Gordon Square
This one-day conference organised by the Architecture, Space and Society Centre aims at an interdisciplinary reassessment of Gothic art and architecture between c. 1250 and 1350 in a broad European perspective. In this period of increased diversity of patrons and new technical facilities, the design options for artists and architects alike extended to a virtuoso refinement across media. At the same time new modes of reduction emerged, probably originating in economic, technical or programmatic tendencies of the time. The study day – an extension of a larger international conference on his subject held at Halle University in June - will examine this paradox and its cultural context on series of outstanding examples across Europe.
Speakers:
Lindy Grant (University of Reading)
The Aesthetics of Ascetism: Louis IX and Court Culture after the Return from the 1248-54 Crusade.
Tim Ayers (University of York)
Less is More: The Chapter House of York Minster
Tom Nickson (The Courtauld)
Two for One: Berenguer de Montagut, Manresa, and Catalan Gothic
Jana Gajdošová (Sam Fogg)
Transforming Tradition: The Šivetice Rotunda and its Architectural Innovations
Michalis Olympios (University of Cyprus)
Architecture and Ritual at the Laon Cathedral Chapels
Alexandra Gajewski (Burlington Magazine/Institute for Historical Research)
Becoming Papal Residence: Churches and Chapels in Avignon, from John XXII to Clement VI
Zoë Opacic (Birkbeck)
Erfordia turrita: 'Reduktionsgotik' and Urban Refinement in Fourteenth-century Erfurt
Contact name:
Allison Deutsch