Sexuality and Intimacy in Medieval and Early Modern Art Symposium

Sexuality and Intimacy in Medieval and Early Modern Art Symposium

10:00–10:30 | Gathering and Registration

10:30–12:15 | Keynote Lecture

Welcome Address

Chair: Assaf Pinkus, Tel Aviv University

Keynote Lecture: Sexuality in Medieval Art: From the Corbels and Misericords to Late Medieval Manuscript Illustrations

Albrecht Classen, University of Arizona

12:15–12:45 | Coffee break

12:45–14:30 | Religious Pornography or Pious Devotion?

Chair: Galit Noga-Banai, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
 

The Reception of Female Body in the Byzantine Illuminated Book

Mati Meyer, The Open University of Israel

The Sexuality of the Saracens and the Depiction of Male Genitalia in Crusader Art

Gil Fishof, Haifa University

The Eroticized and Sexualized Body: The Torments of St. Barbara

 Assaf Pinkus, Tel Aviv University

14:30–15:45 | Lunch Break

15:45–16:15 | IMAGO Annual Gathering

16:15–18:00 | Glimpses of Intimacy

Chair: Sara Offenberg, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Memmo di Filippuccio, Solitudo Carnis: A Picture of Marriage Life

Uri Erez, Bar-Ilan University

Marital Love as a ‘Licit Pleasure in Rubens’ Portraits of Isabella and Helena

Sara Benninga, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design and Tel Aviv University

 Meditating Motherhood: Mary under the Cross in an Illuminated Meditationes Vitae Christi (Oxford, Corpus Christi College, MS 410)

Renana Bartal, Tel Aviv University