2009 Los Angeles

Los Angeles
The Fifty-Fifth Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America
The University of California and
The Getty Museum
19-21 March 2009

Four sessions dedicated to textile studies

See programme: http://www.rsa.org

I: Mobile Images

Chair: Koenraad Brosens (Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven)

1. Elizabeth A. H. Cleland (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York):
Small-Scale Tapestries and Private Devotion During the Renaissance

2. Lorraine Karafel (New York University):
Painting, Sculpture - and Tapestries: Raphael's all'antica Weavings and the Vatican's Sala dei Pontefici

3. James G. Harper (University of Oregon):
Solenne Comparsa: Contextual Significance and Mutable Meaning in the Display of Tapestry in 17^th Century Rome

II: Textile Spaces

Chair: Candace J. Adelson (Tennessee State Museum, Nashville)

1. Olga Bush (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York):
Of Times and Tents in the 14^th Century Alhambra

2. Joseph Imorde (Bibliotheca Hertziana, Rome):
Domus Ipsa Rideat. Textile Banquet Accoutrements in Early Modern Times

3. Elisabeth Priedl (Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna):
Santa Susanna's Arazzi Finti. The Textile Medium as a Subject of Debate in Counter-Reformation Rome

III: Clothes and Cloths

Chair: Julia Gelshorn (University of Zurich)

1. Felix Thürlemann (University of Konstanz):
Self-Reflexivity in the Ecclesiastical Paraments of the Order of the Golden Fleece

2. Philipp Zitzlsperger (Humboldt University, Berlin):
Dürer in Furs - Contributions to an Iconology of Clothing in Early Modern Art

3. Mateusz Kapustka (University of Wroclaw):
Alessandro Allori's Cloths. The Textile Recall in Early-Modern Florentine Imagery

IV: Texts and Textures

Chair: Alexander Nagel (New York University)

1. Ursula Lehmann (Humboldt University, Berlin):
Textiles and Law, Tapestries and Tribunals: Judicial Aspects in the Trajan- and Herkinbald-Tapestry

2. Johannes Endres (University of California, Riverside):
Textures and Cuts in Jörg Wickram's Novel The Golden Thread (1557)

3. Rebecca Olson (Oregon State University):
"Full of Device": Taking the Tapestry Metaphor Seriously