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
