Laurence Terrier, Université de Neuchâtel (Suisse) Themes issued from Greco-Roman mythology were transmitted during the Middle Ages through Roman vestiges and several literary traditions. While numerous studies, as early as the 1930s, have noticed mythological subjects within churches, it is the identification of the represented episode that have retained researchers’ attention. We will try to…
Nicolas Faucherre, Heike Hansen, Andréas Hartmann-Virnich, Aix-Marseille Université The church of Abu Gosh, near Jerusalem, built around 1160 by the Hospitallers on a site identified by a tradition of uncertain origins with the Emmaus of the Gospel, is most famous for its magnificent Byzantine mural paintings, executed shortly before the conquest of Jerusalem by Saladin…
Xavier Barral i Altet, Université de Rennes, Université de Venise Cà Foscari The oldest known redaction (Vat. 3973) of the Mirabilia Urbis Romae is dated between 1140 and 1143. It is inserted in the Liber Polypticus of Benedict, canon of St. Peter, published by Paul Fabre and Louis Duchesne in their edition of the Liber…
Michel Zink, de l’Académie française, professeur honoraire au Collège de France The marvelous is perhaps, in the art and letters of the Middle Ages, what fascinates us the most spontaneously. It is however what is the most foreign to us, because the marvelous depends on the parameters that have changed the most since the Middle…
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Jean WIRTH L’IMAGE À L’ÉPOQUE ROMANE : VINGT ANS APRÈS To the critical remarks that the book I published twenty years ago did provoke, I add my owns. However, I maintain that iconography constitutes a system – nobody would be able to understand an image otherwise. That system depends on ideologies, like the contempt…
Quitterie CAZES L’ART ROMAN AUJOURD’HUI The Romanesque today: appreciate, understand, analyse art of XIth and XIIth centuries is still relevant. Whats is Romanesque? What is Romanesque today? Answer this question needs a small step backward. Since two centuries, we tried to understand diverse facets: origins, buildings typology, position of its sculpture in relation to…
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