The Antique Memory and the Middle Ages

by Ivan Foletti, Herbert L. Kessler, Xavier Barral i Altet, Valentina Cantone, Serena Romano, Nicolas Bock, Zuzana Frantova, Elisabetta Scirocco and edited by Zuzana Frantova and Ivan Foletti

Book cover: The Antique Memory and the Middle Ages

Extent: 176 pages

Publisher: Viella – libreria editrice

Subjects: Art & Art History

Series: I libri di Viella. Arte / Studia Artium Medievalium Brunensia

Series volume number: 2

Language: English

Paperback (Published)

(May 2015)

ISBN: 9788867281572

Price: $35.00

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This volume was born from a desire to leave a tangible trace of the scholarly encounters that have taken place in the past two years at the Center for Early Medieval Studies of the Department of Art History at Masaryk University in Brno. Speaking in various forums Xavier Barral i Altet, Nicolas Bock, Valentina Cantone, Herbert Kessler, Serena Romano and Elisabetta Scirocco have sparked exciting discussions of what continues to be known as a Middle Age. The common denominator that unites all of the scholarly work presented was the dialogue between the medieval “present” and the antique world: from Venice through Campania to Milan, from Constantinople to Burgundy, there emerged an intellectual and visual experience that suggests the medieval period was a uniquely fertile moment for engagement with the heritage of antiquity, filtered and mediated in different ways, but ever present. The purpose of this volume is to understand why and how patterns, images and ideas from the mythical (but visible) ancient past were received throughout the medieval millennium. We seek, that is, to understand why, hic et nunc, clients and workshops deliberately chose to speak in a “classicizing” aesthetic language, or to appropriate concepts belonging to the antique tradition wholesale.

  • By (author) Xavier Barral i Altet
  • By (author) Nicolas Bock
  • By (author) Valentina Cantone
  • By (author) Ivan Foletti
  • By (author) Zuzana Frantova
  • By (author) Herbert L Kessler
  • By (author) Serena Romano
  • By (author) Elisabetta Scirocco
  • Edited by Ivan Foletti
  • Edited by Zuzana Frantova