The hydraulic and musical fountain in the Cleveland Museum of Art offers a perfect opportunity for theoretical reflection and practical experimentation in multisensory art history. It is a unique device of gilt and enamelled silver made in Paris ca. 1320.
The late medieval church in western Europe was a site of competing signifiers that called on contemporary Christians to actively engage with the architecture, furniture and art that decorated the interior.
The conference, jointly organized by Zuleika Murat (University of Padua) Fabio Massaccesi (University of Bologna) and Núria Jornet (Universitat de Barcelona), brings together international scholars working on diverse topics and materials
By the Late Middle Ages, the liturgy has become the most important and elaborate ceremonial of Christianity in an already highly ritualised society.
This paper examines ideas of image reception in the theological treatise ‘De altera uita’, written by the Iberian bishop Lucas de Tui in ca. 1230. This analysis of the book reflects on the importance of sight within the religious experience of late-medieval Europe.
