Dear colleagues,
We warmly invite you to the international scholarly workshop Silent Objects, Speaking Functions? Uses, Reuses, and Receptions of Late Antique Artifacts within the frame of the international project called The Brescia Casket: An Exemplary Object Biography Between Art History, Technical Art History, and Reception History, which will take place on Monday, December 1, at the Hans Belting Library, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University.
We look forward to seeing you,
RE:CENT. Center for Medieval Visual Cultures and Research Communication, Department of Art History, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
Project partners:
- Museo Santa Giulia, Fondazione Brescia Musei, Brescia
- Archäologische Staatssammlung, Munich
- Vorarlberg museum, Bregenz
- RE:CENT. Center for Medieval Visual Cultures and Research Communication, Department of Art History, Masaryk University, Brno
- Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, Forschungsstelle Realienkunde, Munich
How to participate online: The event will be broadcast in parallel via Zoom. You can register for the meeting at the following link: https://cesnet.zoom.us/j/93537485751,
Meeting ID: 935 3748 5751
Programme:
10:00
Adrien Palladino
Masaryk University / Musée du Louvre, Paris
Introduction – Containers, Contents, and Transformations
10:30
Ian Randall
Masaryk University
The Cultural Inertia of Objects
11:00
Catharina Blänsdorf
Archäologische Staatssammlung, Munich
The Construction of Roman Boxes and the Brescia Casket
11:30
Elisabeth Fugmann
Vorarlberg Museum, Bregenz
From Belt Fitting to Lock Plate? Reuse of a Spolium
Lunch
14:00
Ruben Campini
University of Fribourg / Masaryk University
Scenting Paradise. Early Christian Ivory Pyxides as Technologies of Salvation
14:30
Teodora Georgievová
Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza, Rome / Masaryk University
Containers of Power: Women’s Interactions with Caskets from Public Bathhouse Spectacle to Private Eucharistic Practice
15:00
Esther Wipfler
Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, Munich
Ebdomadaria epistole teneat Sepulcrum eboris in manibus in medio choro – The Use of Iconic Objects in the Easter Liturgy of Santa Giulia (Brescia) and in other Medieval Women Monasteries
