Institute for Medieval Studies

Session	1312
Title	Beyond the Borders of Time: Medieval Art from an Early Modern Perspective
Date/Time	Wednesday 6 July 2022: 16.30-18.00
Organiser	Andrzej Woziński, Instytut Historii Sztuki, Uniwersytet Gdański
Moderator/Chair	Beata Możejko, Instytut Historii, Uniwersytet Gdański
Paper 1312-a	Medieval Art in the Eyes of Stock Takers, Historiographers, Travelers, and Artists of the Early Modern Era (Language: English) Andrzej Woziński, Instytut Historii Sztuki, Uniwersytet Gdański Index Terms: Archives and Sources; Art History - General; Art History - Painting; Art History - Sculpture
Paper 1312-b	The Perception of the Middle Ages in the Early Modern Italian Art Literature (Language: English) Izabela Mai, Instytut Historii Sztuki, Uniwersytet Gdański Index Terms: Archives and Sources; Art History - General; Historiography - Modern Scholarship; Language and Literature - Italian
Paper 1312-c	A Look from a Perspective of Time and Distance: Medieval Art and Architecture of the Iberian Peninsula in the Accounts of Polish Travelers, Diplomats, and Pilgrims Written in the Years 1480-1615 (Language: English) Aleksandra Stanek, Instytut Historii Sztuki, Uniwersytet Gdański Index Terms: Architecture - General; Archives and Sources; Art History - General; Language and Literature - Slavic
Abstract	The aim of the session is to show how people of the early modern era perceived medieval art. The papers concern therefore a problem of the borders of time but in some cases of space as well. They shall show on three different examples that despite changed taste and functions of art in the early modern period, an assessment of medieval works was not uniform at all: sometimes was negative, sometimes indifferent but we find also not a little examples of understanding and appreciation of old aesthetic. Different kind of testimonies shall show this phenomenon.