Date/Time
Date(s) - 27 Mar 2017
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Location
Lecture Hall, Institute of Fine Arts
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Hyper-Technical Gothic: A Social and Cultural History of Late Medieval Technicality (ca.1400-1530)
Professor Jean-Marie Guillouët, Université de NantesMonday, March 27, 2017
6:00 PM in the Lecture Hall
The Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
1 East 78th StreetPlease note that seating in the Lecture Hall is on a first-come, first-served basis with RSVP. There will be a simulcast in an adjacent room to accommodate overflow. Latecomers are not guaranteed a seat.
This conference will seek to further our understanding of the socio-genesis of artistic modernity by exploring a late-medieval decorative procedure that emerged and spread in northern and central France between the beginning of 15th century and the early 16th century. This study, dealing with architecture and technical knowledge during late Middle Ages, originated from an incidental observation regarding a well-known late-medieval miniature, the Building of Solomon’s Temple in Jerusalemfrom the fifteenth-century codex of Les Antiquités judaïques, for a long time attributed to Jean Fouquet. Close examination of this image reveals numerous important details of the cultural history of Gothic construction, not least the role of technical abilities in establishing social hierarchies and the place of technical virtuosity in late-medieval craftsmanship and its role in artistic individuation.
This lecture is co-sponsored by MARGIN (Medieval and Renaissance Graduate Interdisciplinary Network) of NYU.
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