The Spectacle of the Flesh
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The Spectacle of the Flesh
in collaboration with Concept & Organization Michele Bacci and Vladimir Ivanovici in collaboration with Tanja Michalsky The Spectacle of the Flesh Iconic Living Bodies in Late Antiquity and Beyond Secretary Anna Paulinyi T: (+39) 06 69 99 32 27- [email protected] Ornella Rodengo T: (+39) 06 69 99 32 22 - [email protected] www.biblhertz.it Via Gregoriana 28 00187 Roma (I) Photograph Daniel in the Lion’s den, from a Fresco in the Calixtus Catacomb in Rome. Drawing by A. Bosio, Roma Sotterranea, Roma, Grignani, 1650, III.23, Tav. 3. International conference Rome, 30–31 May 2016 Bibliotheca Hertziana - Max-Planck-Institute for the History of Art Villlino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome Istituto Svizzero di Roma Villa Maraini, Via Ludovisi 48, 00187 Rome Monday, 30 May Istituto Svizzero di Roma Villa Maraini, Via Ludovisi 48, 00187 Rome 11:00 Welcome Michele Luminati (Rome) Philippe Sormani (Rome) Introduction Michele Bacci (Fribourg) I. NEGOTIATING ICONICITY WITH THE ANCIENT HERITAGE Moderation: Michele Bacci 11:20 Maria Luisa Catoni (Lucca) Stylization of the body and embodied values in Classical Antiquity. 11:50 James A. Francis (Kentucky) Images as people and people as images: Concomitant themes from Homer to Christian Antiquity. Coffee break 12:40 Valerio Neri (Bologna) L’ imperatore come icona vivente nelle rappresentazioni letterarie della tarda antichità 13:10Discussion Lunch break II. CONSTRUCTING ICONICITY IN LATE ANTIQUITY Moderation: Barbara Bruderer-Eichberg (Rome) 15:00 15:30 Vladimir Ivanovici (Rome/Mendrisio) Embodying one’s god: Initiation and iconicity in Late Antiquity. Donatella Tronca (Bologna) Spectacula turpitudinum: Dancing bodies between Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. 16:00 Hannah Hunt (Leeds) Late Antique Syria: The body in text and community. 16:30 Discussion KEYNOTE LECTURE: 17:30 Georgia Frank (New York) Monks as living statues in Late Antiquity. Tuesday, 31 May Bibliotheca Hertziana - Max-Planck-Institute for the History of Art Villlino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome 9:15 Welcome Tanja Michalsky (Rome) III. THE MATERIALITY OF SANCTITY IN LATE ANTIQUITY Moderation: Daniela Mondini (Mendrisio) 9:30 10:00 Jean-Michel Spieser (Fribourg) Mise en scène du corps du Christ dans l’Antiquité tardive paléochrétienne. Heather Hunter-Crawley (Swansea) Distributing the iconic body: Qal’at Sem’an and the agency of Symeon Stylites the Elder. 10:30 Maria Cristina Carile (Bologna) Iconic sacred substances: Material expressions of imperial space and body. 11:00 Discussion Coffee break IV. MEDIEVAL AND MIDDLE BYZANTINE HERITAGE Moderation: Tanja Michalsky 11:40 12:10 Warren T. Woodfin (New York) Hidden in plain sight: The clerical body as vanishing point. Pierre-Yves Theler (Fribourg) Healing severed limbs: Loss, restoration, and transformation of corporeal integrity in the Later Middle Ages. Lunch break 14:00 Klaus Krüger (Berlin) Real and yet spiritual, fleshly and yet fictional, bodily and yet iconic: The aesthetics of figura in Late Medieval Art. 14:30 Discussion 15:00 Conclusion Vladimir Ivanovici