Date/Time
Date(s) - 6 Mar 2012
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Location
Butler Library, Columbia University
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523 Butler Library, Columbia University
Reception to follow talk
Co-sponsored by the Rare Book & Manuscript Library, the Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program, and the Department of Classics
Prof. Lila Yawn
Arts and Humanities Advisor, The American Academy in Rome / Adjunct Assistant Professor of Art History, John Cabot University, Rome
Title of the talk:
The Painter of the Priapic Ezekiel: Scribe-Miniaturists and Giant Manuscripts (Italy, 11th Century)
Synopsis:
In the mid eleventh century, an anonymous miniaturist, probably at work in central Italy, decorated an oversize Bible manuscript with a figure of Ezekiel with priapic anatomy, an imaginative commentary on the prophetic text. This lecture examines the oeuvres of this exegete-miniaturist and of the other Italian scribe-painters who crafted illustrated church books for German prelates and members of the imperial circle during the reign of Henry IV of Germany. Its centerpiece will be the largely unpublished Bamberg Moralia in Iob (Staatsbibliothek, Msc.Bibl. 41), whose calligraphers also wrote the Palatine Bible (Bibl. Apost. Vaticana, Pal. lat. 3-5), a founding work of the Italian Giant Bible genre.