Date: 28 OCTOBER 2022 from 17:00 to 18:30
Event location: Aula Mansarda - Dipartimento di Filologia Classica e Italianistica FICLIT, Via Zamboni 32 - In presence and online event
Type: Lectures
The history of the face is now by far more than a history of portraiture in the sense the European tradition gives to the term. This substantial shift concerns medieval studies, as it concerns all humanities. The history of the face in the Middle Ages should be contextualized in a wide horizon, going back to some practices in ancient world, and coming to our modern, contemporary situation. This approach should be anthropological, as well as historical or art-historical. That is why I will consider some texts from the Central Middle Ages, including completely unknown ones and unedited manuscripts, as well as miniatures, icons, and other paintings. I will also try to consider, in a comparative light, some evidence from East and West, especially the famous, and recently damaged, Trinity attributed to Andrey Roublev and the Synod of the Vergin from Pskov, both in the Tretiakov gallery of Moscow.
HSE University, Moscow
ISA Visiting Fellow status only