Next Monday, December 18th, from 8:30 to 10:00, the following conference by Antoni Madueño Ranchal will take place in classroom 603 of the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters (subject: Romanesque Art):
"Chanting the Romanesque. Musical Iconographies of the Sacred and the Profane."
II International Congress Mediterranean Encounters, 13th-15th of September, 2023. Painted space, reconstructed space in medieval mural painting (IV-XIII Centuries)
The Museu Nacional is hosting the second edition of the Incontri Mediterranei (Mediterranean Encounters), whose first edition was held in Rome in 2019. It is an ambitious international symposium on medieval art that was born from the close collaboration between the Museu Nacional d’ Art de Catalunya, the Sapienza Università di Roma and the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, with the aim of promoting the study and characterization of the artistic phenomena of the medieval Mediterranean, the circulation of repertoires and artists, as well as the rich exchange processes that distinguish them. In this meeting, the problem of how the thematic distribution and the perception of space worked in a painted church will be discussed, from its origins in the 13th century, and what strategies have been developed by museums and original places to help the viewer to reconstruct this experience. Speakers from the universities of Cleveland, Athens, Nicosia, Rome, Milan, Verona, Catania, the Complutense University of Madrid and the Autonomous University of Barcelona participate in the congress.
The objective of this conference will be to analyze how the distribution of images was in a painted church and the original perception of space in these ensembles from its origins to the 13th century. We want to focus on the theme of the removal of medieval wall paintings (or parietal mosaics) and the strategies that have been carried out in museums and original places to help the viewer to recreate the original experience of these sets. The congress will address the cycles of medieval mural painting and parietal mosaic throughout the Mediterranean from the 4th to the 13th centuries (Holy Land, Egypt, Cyprus, Greece, Italy, France and the Iberian Peninsula).
Scientific committee: Jordi Camps (National Art Museum of Catalonia), Anna Maria D’Achille (Sapienza Università di Roma) Antonio Iacobini (Sapienza Università de Roma) Marina Righetti (Sapienza Università di Roma) and Manuel Castiñeiras (Autonomous University of Barcelona)
Places and Dates: National Art Museum of Catalonia and Vall de Boí, from September 13-15, 2023.
Registration will open on June 15: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
CALL FOR PAPERS: 5th International Conference Magistri Cataloniae & Mediterranei: “The rediscovery and reception of medieval art: a look up to contemporaneity”
5th International Conference Magistri Cataloniae & Mediterranei, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Faculty of Arts and Philosophy, Friday 26th of May 2023.
Coords. Laia Cutrina Gallart (UAB), Jessica Celata (Università degli Studi “G. d’Annunzio), Elena Ramazza (UAB)
The path crossed by the artistic and cultural heritage of the Middle Ages winds through the centuries between the accusations of obscurantism and episodes of mythologization; starting from modern collecting, passing through the nineteenth-century revival and crossing the revolutionary avant-gardes of the twentieth century, the culture of media aetas comes, sometimes with stereotypical forms, in the era of digital where its fortune is entrusted to the small and large screen, video games and augmented reality.
This conference aims to analyse the reception of medieval art over the centuries, reflecting, above all, on the potential of the digital medium (artificial intelligence, augmented reality, social networks) for the study, conservation, communication, and usability of medieval art.
We invite you to send us a paper with an abstract between 250-300 words, 3-5 keywords and a brief CV at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. before April 24th, 2023. Papers will be accepted in Catalan, Spanish, English, and Italian. The paper’s duration must be of 20 minutes.
Scientific Committe formed by: Manuel Castiñeiras (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona), Gaetano Curzi (Università degli Studi "G. d'Annunzio" Chieti - Pescara), Carles Sánchez (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) i Josefina Planas (Universitat de Lleida).
Organized by: SGR 2021-63 Magistri Cataloniae & Mediterranei—Estudis artístics de la Mediterrània Medieval i la seva recepció (MACMED)
Special Issue "Byzantium and the Mediterranean (11th–13th C.): Multiculturalism, Gender and Profane Topics in Illuminated Manuscripts"
Byzantine illuminated manuscripts constitute a fascinating field of study to be explored in terms of cross-cultural exchanges, gender issues and the spreading of profane topics. This phenomenon was especially rich in the turmoil of 12th and 13th century art in the Mediterranean as a privileged space for interchanging between Latins, Greeks and Muslims. The prestige of Constantinople, the continuity of deep-rooted Byzantine artistic traditions in most of the areas of the Mediterranean (Sicily, Venice, Cyprus, Crusader States, etc), and the increasing mobility of artists, models, and codices fostered these kinds of artistic encounters.
Some of the Byzantine codices from this period—chronicles, manuals of poliorcetics, cynegetic treatise or even biblical and ecclesiastical manuscripts—provide us precious information related to customs, ceremonies, warfare techniques, buildings, clothing, social strata and ethnic and cultural diversity.
We invite articles concerning these topics, especially those regarding gender roles, the depiction of Otherness, the use and meaning of profane repertoires in manuscripts and their spreading and impact on other visual arts.
Proposals for papers of up to max 15.000 words in length should be sent to the guest editors, Manuel Castiñeiras, on This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. , and Carles Sánchez Márquez, on This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. , by 31 October, 2022. Papers should be in English.
Guest Editors: Prof. Dr. Manuel Castiñeiras, Prof. Dr. Carles Sánchez Márquez
For further information:
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/arts/special_issues/Byzantium_Mediterranean
I International Seminar MABILUS, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Facultat de Filosofia i Lletres, 11 th November 2022
Coor. Manuel Castiñeiras (UAB), Carles Sánchez Márquez (UAB), Giulia Arcidiacono (Università di Catania)
Byzantine illuminated manuscripts constitute a fascinating field of study to be explored in terms of cross- cultural exchanges, gender issues and the spreading of profane topics. This phenomenon was especially rich in the turmoil of 12th-and-13th century art in the Mediterranean as a privileged space for interchanging between Latins, Greeks and Muslims.
The prestige of Constantinople, the continuity of deep-rooted Byzantine artistic traditions in most of the areas of the Mediterranean (Sicily, Venice, Cyprus, Crusader States, etc), and the increasing mobility of artists, models, and codices fostered these kinds of artistic encounters. Some of the Byzantine codices from this period—chronicles, manuals of poliorcetics, cynegetic treatises or even biblical and liturgical manuscripts— provide us precious information related to customs, ceremonies, warfare techniques, buildings, clothing, social strata and ethnic and cultural diversity.
This First International Seminar MABILUS is focused on the study of these topics, especially those especially those regarding gender roles, the depiction of Otherness, the use and meaning of profane repertoires in manuscripts and their spreading and impact on other visual arts.
We invite you to submit a paper proposal (including a 120-word abstract) to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. , by Monday, July 4, 2002. Proposals in Spanish, Catalan, Italian, English and French are welcomed.
Organized by: Manuscritos bizantinos iluminados en España: obra, contexto y materialidad – MABILUS (MICINN-PID2020-120067GB-I00).
Carles Sánchez, researcher of the research group "Magistri Cataloniae", publishes Una tragèdia pintada. Les pintures de Santa Maria de Terrassa i la difusió del culte a la península Ibèrica. The book is the result of the research that began in 2014 in the framework of the research project of UAB Artistas, patronos y público: Cataluña y el Mediterráneo (siglos XI - XV) - MAGISTRI CATALONIAE (MICINN HAR2011-23015). It is a systematic study of the agents that were part of the realization of the work, especially the combined action of the comitent and the artist.
Available the link to buy the book: https://anemeditors.com/producte/una-tragedia-pintada/
Next 28 February 2020 will be held the IV Colloque International Magistri Cataloniae:
Terra Santa a Occident: objectes, imatges i relíquies.
Date and place: 28 February 2020. Sala de Graus, Facultat de Filosofia i Lletres, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB).
Next 16 November 2018 will be held the III Colloque International Magistri Cataloniae with a session entitled: Un nou cicle de pintura mural: Saint-Pierre d'Ourjout (Couserans) en el context del romànic pirinenc. This colloque has been organized and coordinated by Magistri Cataloniae (SGR 2017 - 231).
Date and place: 16 November 2018. Sala de Graus, Facultat de Filosofia i Lletres, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.
Next Friday 25 November 2016, Prof. Ludovico Geymonat, from the University of Notre-Dame, will give a lecture entitled: "A Sculpted Nativity Cycle for San Marco, Venice".
Place and time: UAB, Facultat de Lletres, Aula 602, 10.00-13.00.