Next 24 February Verónica Abenza, researcher of our research project Magistri Cataloniae, is giving a lecture in the International Research Conference: Presence and InVisibility – sign-bearing artefacts in sacral spaces. This Conference has been organized by the Research Project Materiale Textkulturen of the Universität Heidelberg. The lecture is entitled: In the name of the queen. Female patron portraits and inscriptions in 11th Century Aragon.

Date and place: 24 February 2015, 11.00 h. ZAW - Zentrum für Altertumswissenschaften (Marstallhof 4, Viertes Obergeschoss, Vorlesesaal 513, 69117 Heidelberg).

Link to the program.

Next 29 April 2015 will be held the I Coloquio sobre el Camino de Santiago y el Románico with a session entitled:  "La Catedral de Santiago de Compostela y Francia (1075-1122): Intercambio, Memoria y Confluencia Artística". This colloque has been organized by the Xunta de Galicia and the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and coordinated by Manuel Castiñeiras (Magistri Cataloniae) and Térence de Monredon.

Date and place: 29 April 2015. From 13,00 to 18,00 h. Sala de Graus. Facultat de Filosofia i Lletres de la UAB.

Link to the Program.

Manuel Castiñeiras will held a lecture entitled "Weaving stories, images and devotions: the Medieval Mediterranean as a backdrop" at the International Conference: A Sea and its Saints: Hagiography and the Structuring of the Mediterranean in the Middle Ages, that has been organized by the Istituto Storico Germanico.

Date: Martes, 3 de Marzo de 2015. 

Place: Istituto Storico Germanico (via Aurelia Antica 391, 00165 Roma).

Link to the program.

Yesterday, 21 January 2015 the Book: Pintar fa mil anys. Els colors i l'ofici del pintor romànic was officially presented on the Museu Episcopal de Vic. The editors of the book, Manuel Castiñeiras (UAB-Magistri Cataloniae) and Judit Verdaguer (MEV-Magistri Cataloniae) took care of the presentation and Ignasi Fernández Terricabres (Vicedegà d'Estudiants de la UAB), Josep M. Riba (Director of the Museu Episcopal de Vic) and Joan Carles Marset (Chief of the Servei de Publicacions of the UAB) presided over the act.

Síntesi. Quaderns dels Seminaris de Besalú

Catalunya i la Mediterània: circulació d'artistes, objectes i models. Num. 2, 2014 [Link to PDF]

The Association Amics de Besalú i del seu Comtat. Centre d'Estudis, in collaboration with the Museu Nacional de Catalunya (MNAC) and the MICINN' research project Artistas, patronos y público: Catalunya y el Mediterráneo. Siglos XI-XV.  Magistri Cataloniae (HAR2011-23015), promotes an annual Romanesque Seminar, which hosts young scholars' research on medieval art history, giving them the opportunity and the ideal platform to present their first contribution to this discipline. 

As a result, it has been published this number of the Síntesi' magazine. It includes the papers which were presented in 2012 (Ecos i objectes de Bizanci a Catalunya) and 2013 (Entre Orient i Occident: el culte a la creu a la Catalunya romànica) sessions of this Seminari de Romànic, which were coordinated by Manuel Castiñeiras (UAB) and Jordi Camps (MNAC). Its topic, which is mainly focused on the analysis of cultural interchanges between Catalonia and the Mediterranean, is widely related to one of the golds of Magistri Cataloniae research project:  processes of creation and reception of images by the audience. 

http://www.amicsdebesalu.cat

New Lecture of Manuel Castiñeiras: "Da Virgilio al Medioevo: la rinascita della Sibilla in Campania (XI-XIII secolo)", in Medioevo tra Occidente e Mediterraneo. Sulle orme di un percorso di ricerca. Giornate di studio in ricordo di Antonio Cadei, Università di Roma I- La Sapienza, Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia – Dipartimento di Storia dell’Arte e Spettacolo, Aula I Adolfo Venturi, 17-18 dicembre 2014.

Link to the Program.

The Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya and the research project Magistri Cataloniae are organising a new series of conferences entitled L'emergència del món profà en l'art medieval: Temes per un nou públic?. Some of the conferences will be held by Avital Heyman, Carles Sánchez and Cèsar Favà, researchers of our research project Magistri Cataloniae.

Place and date: Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, November 2014.

Link to the program.