The Dynamics of Mediterranean Artistic Interaction in the Late Medieval and Renaissance Periods, University of Malta, Valletta Campus, March 9, 2018
The conference titled ‘Dynamics of Mediterranean artistic interaction in the Late Middle Ages and Early Modern Periods’ will bring together local and distinguished foreign art historians who specialise on Medieval and Renaissance aspects relating to Mediterranean art and culture to provide a unique opportunity for ideas to be exchanged. Malta, being at the centre of the Mediterranean and very much at the crossroads of several stylistic influences, was enriched by a variety of factors that will be explored in this conference.
Each academic will present original research that expands the current boundaries of knowledge, and the proceedings of which can be at a later stage be considered for publication. The papers will deal with Malta, Siena, Cyprus, Rhodes and Venice, and thus help to better comprehend the transfer of knowledge and art in the Middle Ages and Early Modern period in the Mediterranean. Some aspects to be explored are cultural and artistic exchange in Hospitaller Rhodes, the theme of the Coronation of the Virgin in the 13th-century Mediterranean, the exchange between Sicily, Malta and Venice, and a Renaissance triptych of local ad international importance in the Mdina Cathedral Museum that is due to be restored.
Registration closes March 7.