Image and Christianity: Visual Media in the Middle Ages
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University of Plymouth
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 13
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- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- Pannonhalmi Föapátság
- ISBN
- 9789639053946
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- Year of publication
- 2014
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Interdisciplinary
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0
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- Additional information
- I curated the international exhibitions 'Icons and Relics: Veneration of Images between East and West' (March 21 – November 11, 2014) and 'Image and Christianity: Visual Media in the Middle Ages' (July 10 – September 30, 2014) in the Benedictine Archabbey of Pannonhalma, Hungary. 'Image and Christianity' was also the inaugural exhibition of the Abbey Manor Visitor Centre (remodelled from an 18th century Baroque vine-cellar). The two exhibitions presented forms, functions and materials of the image in medieval Christianity. 'Icons and Relics' examined the cult of images and relics in Greek and Latin parts of Europe. 'Image and Christianity' focused on visual media in the Middle Ages, where the spread of the painted panel in the West was interpreted in the context of mosaics, stained glass, murals and book illumination (and highlighted the importance of the Sack of Constantinople (1204) as a major shift in these practices).
Works from 4 countries (Austria, Croatia, Italy and Hungary) and 17 institutions were displayed: reliquaries (Benedictine Abbey, Melk; Permanent Exhibition of Religious Art, Zadar), mosaics (Museo Torcello, Torcello), stained glass windows (Universalmuseum Joanneum, Graz), fresco fragments (Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest), panel paintings (Christian Museum, Esztergom, and Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest), codices (Benedictine Abbey, Sankt Paul im Lavanttal; National Széchényi Library, Budapest; ELTE University Library, Budapest), and ivory book covers and diptychs (Benedictine Abbey, Sankt Paul im Lavanttal and Museum of Applied Arts, Budapest). Combined number of visitors for the two exhibitions was 84.600, with an overall value of the insured objects around 23.8 million EUR.
The shows were accompanied by a fully bilingual (Hungarian-English) catalogue with 9 studies discussing among others the questions of mosaic technique and book illumination. Besides my editorial duties and the commissioning of the articles, I wrote the Introduction, the chapter on mural painting and 6 catalogue entries.
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