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Reading Medieval Images

“Am Anfang war das Auge, nicht das Wort.” — Otto Pächt

MDVL 6000
Summer 2006

Required Readings

May 23

Dynes, Wayne R. “Tradition and Innovation in Medieval Art.” In Medieval Studies: An Introduction, 2nd ed., ed. James M. Powell, pp. 376-400. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1992. [Waldo Library, Reference: D116 .M4 1992]

Teviotdale, E. C. “Music and Pictures in the Middle Ages.” In Companion to Medieval and Renaissance Music, ed. Tess Knighton and David Fallows, pp. 179-88. 1992; repr. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. [Waldo Library, Reserve: ML172 .C65 1997]

May 25

Sayre, Henry M. Writing about Art. 5th ed. Upper Saddle River: Prentice Hall, 2006. [2nd edition: Waldo Library, Reserve: N7476 .S29 1995]

May 30

Schapiro, Meyer. Words and Pictures: On the Literal and Symbolic in the Illustration of a Text. The Hague: Mouton, 1973. [Waldo Library, Reserve: N8020 .S32] Reprinted in Words, Script, and Pictures: Semiotics of Visual Language, pp. 11-114. New York: G. Braziller, 1996. [Waldo Library, Reserve: P93.5 .S33 1996]

June 1

Sears, Elizabeth. “Reading Images.” In Reading Medieval Images: The Art Historian and the Object, ed. Elizabeth Sears and Thelma K. Thomas, pp. 1-7. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2002. [Waldo Library, Reserve: N5975 .R425 2002]

Thomas, Thelma K. “Understanding Objects.” In Reading Medieval Images, pp. 9-15.

Sears, Elizabeth. “Medieval Sign Theory.” In Reading Medieval Images, pp. 16-17.

Kinney, Dale. “The Apse Mosaic of Santa Maria in Trastevere.” In Reading Medieval Images, pp. 18-26.

Chazelle, Celia. “An Exemplum of Humility: The Crucifixion Image in the Drogo Sacramentary.” In Reading Medieval Images, pp. 27-35.

June 6

Sears, Elizabeth. “Visual Rhetoric.” In Reading Medieval Images, pp. 36-37

Thomas, Thelma K. “The Medium Matters: Reading the Remains of a Late Antique Textile.” In Reading Medieval Images, pp. 38-49.

Cahn, Walter B. “The ‘Portrait’ of Muhammad in the Toledan Collection.” In Reading Medieval Images, pp. 50-60.

Sears, Elizabeth. “Portraits in Counterpoint: Jerome and Jeremiah in an Augsburg Manuscript.” In Reading Medieval Images, pp. 61-74.

Camille, Michael. “'Seeing and Lecturing’: Disputation in a Twelfth-Century Tympanum from Reims.” In Reading Medieval Images, pp. 75-87.

June 8

Thomas, Thelma K. “Geometry and Architectural Design.” In Reading Medieval Images, pp. 88-89.

Neagley, Linda. “A Late Gothic Architectural Drawing at The Cloisters.” In Reading Medieval Images, pp. 90-99.

Thomas, Thelma K. “Audience.” In Reading Medieval Images, pp. 100-01.

Davis, Michael T. “Canonical Views: The Theophilus Story and the Choir Reliefs of Notre-Dame, Paris.” In Reading Medieval Images, pp. 102-16.

Grabar, Oleg. “About a Bronze Bird.” In Reading Medieval Images, pp. 117-25.

Chazelle, Celia. “Pictures, Books, and the Illiterate: Pope Gregory I’s Letters to Serenus of Marseilles.” Word & Image 6 (1990), 138-53.

June 13

Sears, Elizabeth. “Style and Ideology.” In Reading Medieval Images, pp. 126-27.

Werckmeister, O. K. “The Image of the ‘Jugglers’ in the Beatus of Silos.” In Reading Medieval Images, pp. 128-39.

Sears, Elizabeth. “Pictorial Conventions.” In Reading Medieval Images, pp. 140-41.

Glass, Dorothy F. “'Then the Eyes of the Blind Shall Be Opened’: A Lintel from San Cassiano a Settimo.” In Reading Medieval Images, pp. 142-50.

Drewer, Lois. “The Alcaudete Sarcophagus.” In Reading Medieval Images, pp. 151-59.

June 15

Sears, Elizabeth. “Narrative.” In Reading Medieval Images, pp. 160-61.

Stahl, Harvey. “Eve’s Reach: A Note on Dramatic Elements in the Hildesheim Doors.” In Reading Medieval Images, pp. 162-75.

Parker, Elizabeth C. “The Gift of the Cross in the New Minster Liber Vitae.” In Reading Medieval Images, pp. 176-86.

Hahn, Cynthia. “Valerie’s Gift: A Narrative Enamel Chasse from Limoges.” In Reading Medieval Images, pp. 187-200.

Little, Charles T. “The Road to Glory: New Early Images of Thomas Becket’s Life.” In Reading Medieval Images, pp. 201-11.

June 20

Thomas, Thelma K. “Sacred Images.” In Reading Medieval Images, pp. 212-13.

Carr, Annemarie Weyl. “The ‘Virgin Veiled by God’: The Presentation of an Icon on Cyprus.” In Reading Medieval Images, pp. 214-27.

Sears, Elizabeth. “Mimesis.” In Reading Medieval Images, pp. 228-29.

Eisenberg, Marvin. “The Stoning of St. Stephen in an Altarpiece by Mariotti di Nardo: Again the Cast Shadow.” In Reading Medieval Images, pp. 230-38.