Organisation : University of Rijeka (Center for Iconographic Studies – Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences) et Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.
This conference is organized to encourage interdisciplinary dialogue as well as to continue the cycle of sessions for scholarly discourse on the significant subjects in iconographic studies. The conference presentations will be dealing with different subjects concerning political iconography, with accent on the representations of sovereign, in art and literature with main accent on the European Middle Ages but also with references to the precedent and following periods.
The themes and subjects for discussion are as following :
– representation(s) of sovereign in art and literature – major outline and miscellaneous depictions
– political concepts of representing a sovereign
– images of sovereign as reflexions of political, cultural, ideological, theological and sociological ideas
– sovereigns’ portraits and social hierarchies
– sovereigns as patrons
– representations of sovereigns in different media
– literary sources and tradition
– regional characteristcs/specifics in the images of political power
One of the objectives is to inform scholars, students and other interested in the field, of the recent research results in the studies in iconography. The conference papers will deal with methodological approaches within iconography and iconology – new methods, new concepts and scholarship stressed the need of interdisciplinary approach in research which resulted in somewhat altered interpretation of the meaning of images.
Informations pratiques : Rijeka (Croatie)
Contact : Iva Brusic, Filozofski fakultet Rijeka, S. Frautzeka bb, 51000 Rijeka, teL. 051 – 265776, pu@ffri.hr / cis@ffri.hr
