Index of Medieval Art

ABSTRACTION BEFORE THE AGE OF ABSTRACT ART

May 18, 2019

Jean-Claude Bonne
École des hautes études en sciences sociales
Ornamental Abstraction

Licia Buttà,
Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Geometry, Inscriptions, Abstraction in Medieval Painted Ceilings

Vincent Debiais
Color as Subject

Thomas Golsenne
Université de Lille
The Non-Organic Vitality of the Ornamental or Transformations of the Mandorla

Herbert Kessler
Johns Hopkins University 
Blur

Robert Mills
University College London
Back-to-Front: Abstraction and Figuration in Bosch’s Visions of the Hereafter

Cécile Voyer
Université de Poitiers
Imaginare: Incipit Letters and the Elevation in the Gospels Book (9th-11th c.)

Session Chairs

Charles Barber
Vincent Debiais
Elina Gertsman
Beatrice Kitzinger