Tuesday, September 27
Sigrid Danielson, “Hands and Temperaments: Art History and the Early Medieval Artist”
Yeager Recital Hall, 6 p.m.
Is it possible to discuss early medieval artistic identity? Danielson explores the ways scholars have worked to attribute early medieval objects with their makers and centers of production. During the first decades of the 20th century, art historians regularly employed the themes of nationalism and authenticity to characterize those relationships. Far more than exercises in connoisseurship, these elaborate schemas often replaced the absent biography with narratives that served a variety of regional interests.