The International Colloquium “Medieval Europe in motion” is directly linked to the current postdoctoral research projects of Dr. Maria Alessandra Bilotta on «Portuguese juridical manuscripts production and illumination between 14th and 15th centuries and theirs connections with manuscripts production and illumination in the French “Midi” (specially Toulouse, Avignon and Montpellier) and in the North-Mediterranean regions (Italy and Cataluña)» and by Alicia Miguélez on «The gesture language in the Lorvão Apocalypse and its rapports with other beatus manuscripts».

The main objective of this initiative is to analyze the influence of circulation, motion and mobility of people, forms and ideas on the artistic creation during the Middle Ages. This is not a completely new topic in the field of Medieval Art Studies. Several scientific events have already been organized in the past years on this topic and this Colloquium aims to conduct a critical and constructive revision of these matters, proposing new questions to be discussed.

Our intention is to discuss four groups of questions:

1. First of all, we will discuss the phenomenon of mobility in Medieval times: Why did it happen? Who did travel? Where did they travel? What reasons motivated the circulation of people?
2. We will also try to give answers to the question of how mobility influenced, stimulated and conditioned the artistic production and creation, starting from the moment when a promoter decided to command a new work, the role played by the artist in the design of the product, the material creation of the work and the postproduction phase, including both the sale process and the circulation of finished works.
3. Regarding the figures of clients and promoters, both individual and institutional, how did fashion and taste influence the promoters’ choices? To what extent did their own travels and vital experiences influence their decisions when ordering new works?
4. Regarding the artists and material authors: How did their itinerant lifes  influence their creations? To what extent was conditioned the production of new works by the presence of foreign artists in specific geographical contexts? How did artists transfer models to new places/media? To what extent were they influenced by the models they saw when passing through other cities and by the artistic tradition they found when arriving to new places?
5. Regarding the models themselves, we will analyze the concepts of copy, reinterpretation, reuse and re-elaboration of artistic languages, the confluence of several graphic languages in the same work and, finally, the influence of old models in later works.
6. Regarding the postproduction process, that is the sale and circulation of already finished works, several matters will be approached, such as the artistic market, the existence of a luxury market in medieval times, and the act of collecting both in the Middle Ages and in later periods.

Programm

Thursday | April 18

Faculty of Social and Human Sciences

Auditorium 2

9:00 | Welcome

Session 1 The Phenomenon of Circulation and Mobility in Medieval Europe

9:15 | O livro (Ir)radiante constructor da Europa
Aires Augusto Nascimento (FL-UL)

9:45 | Royal Marriages and the Circulation of People and Ideas Across Medieval Europe
Ana Maria Rodrigues (FL-UL)

10:15 | A literatura em viagem: notas sobre a circulação das vozes e dos textos trovadorescos na Europa medieval
Graça Videira Lopes (IEM/FCSH-UNL)

10:45 | Trade and Cultural Change in the Late Middle Ages
Flávio Miranda (IEM/FCSH-UNL; CITCEM)

11:15 | Coffee Break

Session 2 Patrons and Promoters

11:30 | La transmisión de modelos artísticos a través de damas, obispos y nobles. Algunos ejemplos de los reinos de León y Castilla
Maria Victoria Herráez Ortega (IEM/ULe)

12:00 | A Bíblia do Abade. Manuscrito 455 da abadia de Alcobaça
Luís Correia de Sousa (IEM/FCSH-UNL)

12:30-14:00 | Lunch

Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation

Auditorium 2

Session 2 (cont.) Patrons and Promoters (2nd part)

14:00 | Officina Friderici Imperatoris: Stupor Mundi Moechanicus Artium Sapientiae
Alessandro Musco (Univ. Palermo)

14:30 | I copisti e la biblioteca di Francesco Petrarca
Marco Cursi (Sapienza-Univ. Roma)

15:00 | Livro de Horas dito de D. Leonor: leitura iconográfica das margens e sua relação com o doador
Delmira Espada Custódio (IEM/FCSH-UNL)

Guided Visit

Calouste Gulbenkian Museum

16:00 | Circulation and Mobility in the Mediterraean Sea Through the Collection of the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum
Visit conducted by Jorge Rodrigues (Calouste Gulbenkian Museum)

Friday | April 19

Institut Français du Portugal – Auditorium

9:00 | Welcome

Session 3 Artists and Material Authors

9:15 | Encuadrando el arte 1200 desde el Mediterráneo: viaje de artistas y circulación de modelos
Manuel Castiñeiras (UAB)

9:45 | Les transferts artistiques dans l'Europe gothique: entre circulations matérielles, resémantisation des formes et requalification des savoir-faire
Jean-Marie Guillouët (Univ. Nantes; INHA-Paris)

10:15 | Os artistas e os estaleiros de obra na Idade Média: o caso do Românico em Portugal
Jorge Rodrigues (IHA/FCSH-UNL)

10:45 | Coffee break

Session 4 The Circulation of Models

11:00 | La vie des motifs, des thèmes, des types: le principe des affinités et la question du modèle en iconographie
Christian Heck (Univ. Charles de Gaulle-Lille 3)

11:30 | La réception et adoption de modèles dans les Bibles catalanes du XIIIè siècle
Isabel Escandell Proust (Univ. Illes Balears)

12:00 | Travel Drawings from the 13th Century
Ludovico Geymonat (Hertziana Library-Rome)

12:30 | Les manuscrits de la Bible au XIIIe siècle: modèles, itineraires, receptions
Chiara Ruzzier (LAMOP-UMR-8589-CNRS-Univ. Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)

13:00 | Disponer historias para componer programas: Modelos y creación artística en ábsides del tardorrománico hispano
Esther Lozano (UNED)

13:30 | Maîtres du Midi de la France et culture méditerranéenne: voyages d’artistes et circulation de modèles entre sculptures, enluminures, tapisseries et vitraux (XIVe –XVe siècles)
Maria Alessandra Bilotta (IEM/FCSH-UNL; LAMOP-UMR-8589-CNRS-Univ. Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)

14:00-15:30 | Lunch

Session 5 Circulation of Works

15:30 | Os marfins afro-portugueses do século XV/inícios séc. XVI
Luis Urbano Afonso (IHA/FL-UL)

16:00 | O impacto do nomadismo artístico na decoração iluminada de um missal alcobacense (Alc. 26)
Catarina Fernandes Barreira (IEM/FCSH-UNL)

16:30 | The Navarre Beatus: a 12th Century Manuscript in Motion During the Later Middle Ages
Alicia Miguélez Cavero (IEM/FCSH-UNL)

Saturday April 20

National Library of Portugal Auditorium

9:45 | Welcome

Session 5 (cont.) Circulation of Works (2nd part)

10:00 | Transferência e circulação artística na Europa entre os séculos XII-XVI: agentes, modelos e técnicas
Pedro Flor (UAb; IHA/FCSH-UNL), Carla Varela, Fernandes and Paulo Almeida Fernandes (CEAUCP)

10:30 | O Livro de Horas de D. Duarte e a circulação de modelos
Ana Lemos (IEM/FCSH-UNL)

Round Table

11:00 | Causes and Driving Forces of the Artistic and Cultural Movement in the Middle Ages

Chairman: Gerardo Boto Varela (Univ. Girona), Christian Heck (Univ. Charles de Gaulle-Lille 3),

• José Meirinhos (IF/FL-UP),
• Covadonga Valdaliso (CHSC/FL-UC; CH-UL),
• James Nelson Novoa (Univ. Pisa; FL-UL)

13:00-14:30 | Lunch

Workshop

14:30 | Materials in Motion

Coordinated by: Maria João Melo (DCR/FCT-UNL) and Adelaide Miranda (IEM/FCSH-UNL)

16:30 | Final discussion

Abbreviations:

• CEAUCP > Centro de Estudos Arqueológicos das Universidades de Coimbra e Porto |
• CITCEM > Centro de Investigação Transdisciplinar «Cultura, Espaço e Memória» |
• CHSC/FL-UC > Centro de História da Sociedade e da Cultura/Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Coimbra |
• CH-UL > Centro de História da Universidade de Lisboa |
• CNRS > Centre national de la recherche scientifique |
• DCR/FCT-UNL > Departamento de Conservação e Restauro/Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa |
• FL-UL > Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa |
• IEM/FCSH-UNL > Instituto de Estudos Medievais/Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade Nova de Lisboa |
• IEM/ULe > Instituto de Estudios Medievales/Universidad de León |
• IF/FL-UP > Instituto de Filosofia/Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto |
• IHA/FCSH-UNL > Instituto de História da Arte/Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade Nova de Lisboa |
• IHA/FL-UL > Instituto de História da Arte/Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa |
• INHA > Institut national d'histoire de l'art |
• LAMOP > Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris |
• UAb > Universidade Aberta |
• UAB > UniversitatAutònoma de Barcelona |
• UNED > Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia