Metropolitan Museum of Art – Spring Fellows Colloquium

Metropolitan Museum of Art Spring Fellows Colloquium

“Identity and Reception in Late Antique and Medieval Art”

Bonnie J. Sacerdote Lecture Hall

SESSION 1       10:00 A.M.

What is Jewish about Jewish Art? Art and Identity on Late Ancient Sarcophagi from Rome and Israel

Sean P. Burrus, Bothmer Fellow, Department of Greek and Roman Art

Timeless Treasure: Hardstone Vessels between Reuse and Imitation

Marcus Pilz, Hanns Swarzenski and Brigitte Horney Swarzenski Fellow, Department of Medieval Art and the Cloisters

SESSION 2       11:00 A.M.

The “Interiorization” of Reliquaries in Medieval Byzantium

Bradley Hostetler, Jane and Morgan Whitney Fellow, Department of Medieval Art and the Cloisters

The Anthro-zoomorphic Symbols of the Evangelists: Origin and Persistence in Medieval North Italian Goldsmithery

Manlio Leo Mezzacasa, Andrew W. Mellon Fellow, Department of Medieval Art and the Cloisters

“An Unrivalled Brass Lectorium”: The Cloisters Lectern and the Gothic Revival in England

Douglas Brine, J. Clawson Mills Fellow, Department of Medieval Art and the Cloisters

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Moderator: Helen C. Evans, Mary and Michael Jaharis Curator of Byzantine Art, Department of Medieval Art and The Cloisters