Towards an Iconology of the Textile

The Fifty-Fifth Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America

Los Angeles

The University of California and The Getty Museum

19-21 March 2009

I: Mobile Images

Chair: Koenraad Brosens (Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven)

• ELIZABETH A. H. CLELAND (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)
  Small-Scale Tapestries and Private Devotion During the Renaissance
• LORRAINE KARAFE (New York University)
  Painting, Sculpture - and Tapestries: Raphael's all'antica Weavings and the Vatican's Sala dei Pontefici
• JAMES G. HARPER (University of Oregon)
  Solenne Comparsa: Contextual Significance and Mutable Meaning in the Display of Tapestry in 17th Century Rome

II: Textile Space

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

• OLGA BUSH (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)
  Of Times and Tents in the 14th Century Alhambra
• JOSEPH IMORDE (Bibliotheca Hertziana, Rome)
  Domus Ipsa Rideat. Textile Banquet Accoutrements in Early Modern Times
• 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)

• FELIX THÜRLEMANN (University of Konstanz)
  Self-Reflexivity in the Ecclesiastical Paraments of the Order of the Golden Fleece
• PHILIPP ZITZLSPERGER (Humboldt University, Berlin)
  Dürer in Furs - Contributions to an Iconology of Clothing in Early Modern Art
• 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)

• URSULA LEHMANN (Humboldt University, Berlin)
  Textiles and Law, Tapestries and Tribunals: Judicial Aspects in the Trajan- and Herkinbald-Tapestry
• JOHANNES ENDRESS (University of California, Riverside)
  Textures and Cuts in Jörg Wickram's Novel The Golden Thread (1557)
• REBECCA OLSON (Oregon State University)
  "Full of Device": Taking the Tapestry Metaphor Seriously