Date/Time
Date(s) - 11 Oct 2011
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Location
McCormick Hall
Category(ies) No Categories
Professor Nino Zchomelidse (Princeton University) on “Seeing and Framing: Some Thoughts About Medieval Images.”
This paper offers some reflections on the dynamic relationships between the frame and image in medieval art, focusing on two strategies that appear to be crucial for this relationship and ultimately characterize the development of the medieval discourse on images: the application of relics to the frame and the inclusion of image theoretical texts. The frame can be used to convey quite literally the presence of the painted subject as well as that of the painter. He will show that in the later Middle Ages, the frame can function as a tool to successful stage the gaze on the image itself. By highlighting the nature of the framed image’s own venerability, the frame visualizes the sensibility for the medium of the image, its own fictional character, and various forms of representation.
Reception to follow.