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
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Ornella Rodengo
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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