Conceptualizing the “Adriatic”: Artistic Interactions in Late Medieval D
almatia
A lecture by Michele Bacci as part of the Joan Carlisle-Irving
Lecture Series.
Wednesday\, January 26\, 2022
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The artistic production of med ieval Dalmatia has long been interpreted as the outcome of artistic interac tions between different cultures. The present paper will propose a reconsid eration of the conceptual grounds on which the “Adriatic” has been construe d as a liminal\, or hybrid\, artistic context. Emphasis will be laid on a r elatively large number of 14th-century paintings which came to be attribute d to the Adriatic Eastern coast on account of their distinctive mixture of Venetian and Byzantine forms. It will investigate the extent to which an un conventional combination of forms was understood as a clue to the origin fr om an area deemed to be the site of overlapping artistic geographies. At th e same time\, it will delve into the analysis of some distinctive case stud ies that may shed light on the multifarious approaches toward styles and pi ctorial traditions encountered in the multi-layered societies of Dalmatia’s port towns in the late Medieval period.
Michele Bacci (Ph.D.\, Scuol a Normale Superiore\, Pisa\, 1999) is Professor of Medieval Art at the Univ ersity of Fribourg\, Switzerland\, and a member of the Academy of Europe. H e is the author of numerous studies on the cultural and art-historical cont acts of East and West in the Middle Ages and on the history of the religiou s practices associated with cult objects and holy sites. His many books inc lude Il pennello dell’Evangelista (1998)\, Pro remedio animae< /em> (2000)\, Lo spazio dell’anima (2005)\, San Nicola il Gran de Taumaturgo (2009)\, The Many Faces of Christ (2014)\, and The Mystic Cave: A History of the Nativity Church in Bethlehem (2017). His new book – Veneto-Byzantine Interactions in Icon Pain ting (1280–1450)\, in Greek – has been recently published by the Acade my of Athens (2021).
This lecture is a partnership with North of Byzantium \, an initiative organized by Maria Alessia Rossi (Princeton) and Alice Isa bella Sullivan (Tufts). They will present a related program at UBC in the f uture.
Image credit: Byzantine painter\, Saint Augustine\, early 14th c. Kotor\, Cathedral. Photo: Michele Bacci
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