Role of medieval artists at the "1st Magistri Cataloniae Symposium"
The symposium was organised by the research project Magistri Cataloniae of the UAB and the Episcopal Museum of Vic. The first session took place on 7 November at the UAB Faculty of Philosophy and Arts, and the second on 8 November at the Episcopal Museum of Vic.
Top historians in medieval art met to discuss the training, profile and mobility of artists in the Middle Ages.The training, profile and mobility of artists in the middle ages has always been a controversial topic in the field of art history. Now, the world's main historians in medieval art have delved deeper into this subject in the first symposium entitled “Magistri Cataloniae. Artista anònim, artista amb signatura”. The symposium served to present the latest research conducted in this field and to debate on aspects related to the origin and training of artists, their techniques, their religious condition or lack of, their professional status and social consideration.
The conference, with over one hundred attendants, included experts such as Manuel Castiñeiras, scientific director of the Magistri Cataloniae, Professor Michele Bacci from the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, well-known specialist in artistic and cultural relations between Western and Eastern Mediterranean; Avital Heyman, from the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, expert in the period of crusades; Marco Rossi, from the Catholic University of Milan, Italy, one of the maximum experts in Lombard paintings, and Jacqueline Leclercq-Marx, from the Université libre de Bruxelles, one of the most solid European experts in the Middle Ages. All of them are researchers and/or active collaborators of the UAB's Magistri Cataloniae project.
Magistri Cataloniae
Magistri Cataloniae is a UAB research project which aims to analyse the learning and organisation of painters, sculptors and architects using laboratory analysis techniques. The project is made up of experts from many universities (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, University of Fribourg, University of Girona, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano, etc.) and museum centres (Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya, Episcopal Museum of Vic, Museum of the History of Catalonia, Museo Nacional de las Peregrinaciones de Santiago de Compostela).
Conference programme:
Friday 7 November 2014.
Location: Auditorium of the Faculty of Philosophy and Arts of the UAB (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Edifici B, Campus de la UAB Bellaterra, Cerdanyola del Vallès).
Saturday 8 November 2014.
Location: Conference Hall of the Episcopal Museum of Vic (Plaça del Bisbe Oliba 3).