On Thursday and Friday, April 25 and 26, the AMAM will host a scholarly symposium related to the Religion, Ritual and Performance in the Renaissance exhibition, which presents important Renaissance paintings, sculpture, and decorative arts from the AMAM and the Yale University Art Gallery (YUAG) collections. The symposium - free and open to the public - will be held in the museum's King Sculpture Court, and will last from 11am to 6:30pm on April 25, and from 9am to 5pm on April 26.
Presenters include Oberlin College faculty members from the Art, English, History and Musicology departments, three Oberlin College students who were selected via a competitive process,
faculty from Case Western Reserve University, Washington & Lee University, Miami University of Ohio, and Ohio State University, along with staff from the AMAM, the YUAG, the Cleveland Museum of Art, and the Intermuseum Conservation Association. These two days promise to be exciting ones, and the public is warmly urged to attend. Presentations will range widely on topics related to medieval, Renaissance and baroque art, literature, history and music, as well as pilgrimage and religious practice.
The Allen Memorial Art Museum warmly thanks the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, which provided funding for this symposium through the Yale University Art Gallery Collection-Sharing Initiative. Significant funding was also provided by the Friends of the Allen Memorial Art Museum and the Baldwin Fund of Oberlin College's Art Department.
Below is the schedule of talks for the Symposium. Please check back for any updates.
Thursday April 25th
| Time | Presenter | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 11:00 – 11:15 am | Andria Derstine John G. W. Cowles Director Allen Memorial Art Museum |
Welcome |
11:15 am – Noon |
Laurence Kanter (OC ’76) |
Keynote, “On Connoisseurship” |
Noon – 12:50pm |
George Bent (OC ’85) Sidney Gause Childress Professor in the Arts Washington & Lee University |
Family Values and Public Ritual in Late Medieval Florence |
| Noon - 12:50pm | Elina Gertsman Assistant Professor, Medieval Art Case Western Reserve University |
Ritual Openings |
| 12:50 – 1:15 pm | Discussion | |
| 1:15 – 2:30 pm | Break for Lunch | |
| 2:30 - 3:45pm | Erik Inglis (OC ’89) Professor, Medieval Art History Oberlin College |
Late Medieval Pilgrims and Italian Renaissance Art: Problems of Time and Space |
| 2:30- 3:45pm | Diana Navarrete (OC 2013) Art History and Religion Oberlin College Student |
A Merging of Spheres: The Use of Images in Books of Hours for Communal Orthopraxy |
| 2:30- 3:45pm | Robert Glass Visiting Assistant Professor of Art History Oberlin College |
Art and Ritual in Filarete’s Bronze Doors for St. Peter’s in Rome |
| 3:45 – 4:00 pm | Break | |
| 4:00 – 5:15 pm | Christian Kleinbub Associate Professor, History of Art The Ohio State University |
Painting as Sacred Guarantor: How a New Covenant is Established in Raphael’s Expulsion of Heliodorus |
| 4:00 – 5:15 pm | William Hood Mildred C. Jay Professor of Art Emeritus Oberlin College |
Naked or Nude? Showing Saint Sebastian |
| 4:00 – 5:15 pm | David J. Rothenberg Associate Professor, Musicology Case Western Reserve University |
Musical Mourning, Commemoration, and the Introit Requiem aeternam in Motets, ca. 1500 |
| 5:15 – 6:00 pm | Discussion | |
| 6:00 – 6:30 pm | Introduction by Sara Green (OC 2012) AMAM Curatorial Assistant Performance by Members of the Collegium Musicum Oberliniense under the direction of Steven Plank, Professor of Musicology, Oberlin Conservatory of Music |
Music from manuscript leaves in the Allen Memorial Art Museum collection on view in the exhibition Private Prayer, Public Performance: Religious Books of the Later Middle Ages and Renaissance |
Friday, April 26th
| Time | Presenter | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 8:45 am | AMAM Doors Open | |
| 9:00 – 10:15 am | Andrea Chevalier Senior Paintings Conservator ICA-Art Conservation Andria Derstine John G. W. Cowles Director Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College |
Giampietrino’s Cleopatra in the Allen Memorial Art Museum: Conservation, Technical Examination and Research |
| 9:00 – 10:15 am | Jon Seydl The Paul J. and Edith Ingalls Vignos, Jr. Curator of European Paintings and Sculpture (1500-1800) Cleveland Museum of Art |
Alessandro Cesati’s Cameo of Philip II and the Performance of Renaissance Carved Gems |
| 9:00 – 10:15 am | Ellen Wurtzel A ssistant Professor of History Oberlin College |
“Lieux cloz et fermez”: Religious Performance, Ritual Display and Order Within City Walls in the Sixteenth Century |
| 10:15 – 10:30 am | Break | |
| 10:30 – 11:45 am | Christina Neilson Assistant Professor of Renaissance and Baroque Art History Oberlin College |
Hidden Messages and Pious Making in Early Modern Art |
| 10:30 – 11:45 am | Edward Olszewski Emeritus Professor of Art History Case Western Reserve University |
How the Non-Liturgical Altarpiece Communicated Undefined Doctrine |
| 10:30 – 11:45 am | Lisa Yanofsky (OC 2013) Art History and Vocal Performance Oberlin College & Conservatory Student |
Performing Childhood: Gender and Youth in Sofonisba Anguissola’s Double Portrait of a Boy and Girl of the Attavanti Family |
| 11:45 – 12:15 pm | Discussion | |
| 12:15 – 1:15 pm | Break for lunch | |
| 1:15 – 2:30 pm | Andrew Casper Assistant Professor, Art History Miami University of Ohio |
Ritual, Performativity, and the Shroud of Turin as Devotional Image in Early Modern Italy |
| 1:15 – 2:30 pm | Wendy Beth Hyman Assistant Professor of English Oberlin College |
The Visual Rhetoric of Carpe Diem |
| 1:15 – 2:30 pm | Cora Henry (OC 2013) English Oberlin College Student |
Relics, Saints, and Seductions in Romeo and Juliet and Venus and Adonis |
| 2:30 – 2:45 pm | Break | |
| 2:45 – 4:00 pm | Erin Benay Assistant Professor, Southern Renaissance and Baroque Art Case Western Reserve University |
To Have and To Hold: Possessing the Sacred in the Late Renaissance |
| 2:45 – 4:00 pm | Steven Plank Andrew B. Meldrum Professor of Musicology Oberlin Conservatory of Music |
[Uno] Miracolo da far stupire: Transformation and Il Guercino's St. Francis in Ecstasy with St. Benedict |
| 2:45 – 4:00 pm | Nicholas Jones Professor of English Oberlin College |
Broken Rituals, Rediscovered Bonds: Fragmentation and Restitution in the Allen’s Renaissance Exhibition |
| 4:00 – 5:00 pm | Discussion | |
| 5:00 – 7:00 pm | Reception | |
| 8:00 pm | Collegium Musicum Oberliniense Concert, Fairchild Chapel |
Click here to download a PDF document of the Symposium schedule