Monumentality across Media in the Late Antique East, Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, Oxford, June 15, 2017

This half-a-day workshop presents new evidence for late antique wall-painting from Lebanon and Syria, and explores the transmission of monumental art between different media.

Speakers
Late Antique wall-paintings from the basilica and residential district at Porphyreon (Jiyeh, Lebanon)
Julia Burdajewicz (Warsaw)

Murals from Europos-Dura (Syria): recent discoveries
Ségolène de Pontbriand (Paris)

Multimediality in Late Antique Syria: Monumental Art Between Sculpture and Mosaics
Sean Leatherbury (Oxford/Ohio)

Weaving for Architecture: Late Antique Egyptian Hangings
Foteini Spingou and Judith McKenzie (Oxford)

Organised by Foteini Spingou and Judith McKenzie, in collaboration with the Late Antique and Byzantine Art and Archaeology Seminar, and sponsored by the ERC Advanced Project Monumental Art of the Christian and Early Islamic East, directed by Judith McKenzie.

Attendance and refreshments, including lunch, are free. Pre-registration required.