Plus Ça Change…? The Lives and Afterlives of Medieval Iconography, Index of Christian Art, Princeton University, April 29, 2016

On April 29, 2016, The Index of Christian Art will present the conference Plus Ça Change…? The Lives and Afterlives of Medieval Iconography.

Program
Rejection, Distortion and Destruction at Santa Maria in Trastevere
Dale Kinney, Professor of History of Art Emeritus, Bryn Mawr College

The Archaeology of Carolingian Memory at Saint-Sernin of Toulouse
Catherine Fernandez, Research Scholar, Index of Christian Art, Princeton University

How Reliquaries Resist Iconographic Classification But Still Have Meaning
Cynthia Hahn, Professor, Hunter College and CUNY Graduate Center

Signatures and Traces in the Art of al-Andalus
D. Fairchild Ruggles, Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Debating the Transfiguration In Fourteenth-Century Byzantium; or Why There Is No Hesychastic Art
Charles Barber, Professor, Princeton University

The Frailty of Eyes
Kirk Ambrose, Professor and Chair, University of Colorado, Boulder

Figuring Absence: Iconography and the Failure of Representation
Elina Gertsman, Associate Professor, Case Western Reserve University

The Work of Gothic Sculpture in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
Jacqueline Jung, Associate Professor, Yale University