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Speaker: Beate Fricke Host: Bibliotheca Hertziana - Max-Planck-Institut für Kunstgeschichte Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rom

Acts of Creation between Artistic Practice and Theological Discourse, 12th ‒ 14th Centuries

Research Seminar
In this talk, I explore essential differences between medieval and modern ideas about acts of creation, obscuring our retrospective view upon the medieval artist, his or her work, and his or her self-understanding. I analyze forms of artistic self-representation in illuminations of Genesis and of the creation of the cosmos according to writings by antique and medieval natural philosophers. [more]
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