Activity Type:
Lecture
Presenter:
Julia Finch
Date:
Wednesday, November 16, 2011 - 12:00 to 13:00
Event Status:
As Scheduled
Location:
203 Frick Fine Arts Building
Late medieval audiences read the Bible in different languages, including the language of pictorial narrative.... This paper focuses on two intimately related manuscripts - a late twelfth-century Spanish narrative picture Bible produced for Sancho el Fuerte of Navarre (Amiens, B.m. ms. 108) and a fourteenth-century, stylistically-updated version of the same visual narrative (New York Public Library, Spencer 22). With a focus on the relationship between Sancho's Bible and Spencer 22, I examine the genre of narrative picture Bibles and the role of the pictorial translator in the image-to-image translation of visual narrative from Romanesque Spain to Gothic France.
UCIS Unit:
European Studies Center
Non-University Sponsors:
Department of History of Art and Architecture
World Regions:
Europe
Western Europe