Time As Form and Movement in Medieval Diagrams
Research Seminar
- Public event without registration
- Datum: 15.06.2023
- Uhrzeit: 15:00 - 17:00
- Vortragende: Saskia Quené
- Ort: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rome and online
- Kontakt: katja.hackstein@biblhertz.it
Located between the sensory and the imaginative, the quadrivium of musica, cosmology, arithmetic, and geometry was nonetheless grounded in the realm of the visual. In manuscripts, time and eternity appear as diagrams, graphs, and line drawings using parchment, ink, and pigments.
This talk focuses on circular medieval
diagrams from the 9th and 10th centuries. Close analysis of the diagrams and
their codices will demonstrate how medieval scribes and scholars created new
shapes and forms to move between dimensions.
Saskia C. Quené’s first book, Goldgrund und
Perspektive. Fra Angelico im Glanz des Quattrocento was published in 2022.
She has been a (post-)doctoral researcher at UC Berkeley, the University of
Bern, the KHI in Florence, and at the University of Basel.
Participation online possible. The link will be published soon HERE.
Scientific Organization:
Sietske Fransen and Leendert van der Miesen