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ICMA NEWS ...AND MORE April 2015, no. 1 Sherry C.M. Lindquist, Editor FROM THE PRESIDENT Assuming office at the time of the meeting Inside this issue: was our new Treasurer, David Raizman. David is Distinguished University Professor Dear fellow ICMA members: ICMA News 1 at Drexel University in Philadelphia and Contributors 2 author of a famous book on the history of Although it is now late March, we are still Member News 5 design. But he is also a medievalist: his waiting for signs of spring here in Vermont. Special Reports 9 PhD, under John Williams, concerned I hope that where you are, at least, it is New Acquisitions 9 Morgan Beatus and he publishes widely on already warm and beautiful and full of Romanesque art and architecture in Spain. Teaching Medieval 10 flowers! Here is a report on recent ICMA Architecture He has been a member of the ICMA Fi- activities. Medieval Art News 12 nance Committee since 2011. Resources and 12 Opportunities Annual Meeting: The ICMA held its ICMA Student 14 annual meeting in New York City on Committee Pages February 13, coinciding as usual with the The Crucifixion 14 meetings of the College Art Association. Conundrum Thanks to Chuck Little and Griffith Mann Exhibit Review 17 at the Metropolitan Museum and the Cloisters, we were able to hold the meeting in the Museum itself at a time when one volume and several pages of the famous twelfth-century Winchester Bible, plus its Morgan leaf, were all on exhibit upstairs. Outgoing ICMA Treasurer Becky Corrie hands over a thumb drive to successor David Raizman. Photo by Elizabeth Sears. The meeting this year was graced by the presence of Professor Jonathan Alexander, who offered an informal talk about the Also assuming office at this time were the Winchester Bible with special emphasis on seven new members of the ICMA Board of Directors. The new members, who will ICMA Newsletter is the scholars who were involved in the study serve until February of 2018, are: Robert available through member- of the Bible from the time of Walter Bork, Anne Derbes, Martha Easton, Beate ship and is published every Oakeshott on. Professor Alexander showed Fricke, Elina Gertsman, Griffith Mann, and April, August, and De- black and white photos of legendary art Nino Zchomelidse. cember. Material should be historians addressed on or before h o v e r i n g Warm thanks are due to the seven outgoing March 1, July 1, and over its Board members who have contributed so November 1, by e-mail to pages; his much to the organization in the course of Sherry Lindquist, affectionate their three-year terms. They are: Martina newsletter@medieval p r e s e n t a - Bagnoli, Sarah Bassett, Matthew Canepa, art.org. For inquiries tion of the Anthony Cutler, Janet Marquardt, Elizabeth about membership or any past drew Moodey, and Christine Sciacca. additional information, all in the please contact Ryan room into a Our outgoing Treasurer, Becky Corrie, Frisinger at the ICMA warm and served two terms in this position, brilliantly office; tel. or fax: (212) embracing Jonathon J.J.G. Alexander speaks on steering the ICMA through the troubled 928- 1146; email: continuum the Winchester Bible at the Annual waters of the recent recession. On behalf of [email protected], of scholar- Meeting of the ICMA in New York a very grateful Executive Committee, Becky web address: ship. City, January 2015. Photo by Elizabeth www.medievalart.org. Sears. Continued on page 2 Sherry C.M. Lindquist, Editor FROM THE PRESIDENT (continued) was presented at the meeting with a sort-of-Byzantine Kress Foundation, which encourages us to widen our bowl made in the studio of the potter Miranda Thomas. horizons and sponsor sessions at more conferences, here Miranda Thomas produced the “peace bowl” given to and abroad, than we do now. So think broadly. All pro- Kofi Annan at his retirement from the United Nations, posals for ICMA-sponsored sessions should be forward- and the bowl that Bill Clinton presented to Pope John ed to the Programs and Lectures Committee, chaired by Paul II when visiting Rome. We thought Becky deserved Janis Elliott. no less for her years of devotion to the ICMA! Website: Our website is being thoroughly overhauled Publications: It is and its beauties will be unveiled very soon. my pleasure to announce that Linda Grants and Awards: Our newest venture is the institu- Safran and Adam tion of three student travel grants, designed primarily for Cohen, who have students embarking on their PhD theses who need a been serving as Co- chance to visit the monuments on which they will soon editors of Gesta since be spending countless months of research! The deadline 2013, have agreed to for applying for the 2015 grants will have passed by the stay on for a second time this Newsletter appears, but we hope this, the first term. They steered year of this initiative, will be a success, and lead to grants our journal through a such as these being awarded annually. crucial period of Linda Safron and Adam Cohen, Editors of transition, as we Kalamazoo: We will Gesta shifted the publica- meet soon at Kalamazoo: tion and distribution on Friday, May 15, at the of Gesta to the University of Chicago Press; they have ICMA evening reception, produced a series of excellent issues while managing to at the ICMA student re- meet every deadline in the book. The new issue (vol. ception preceding it, and 54:1) is due out shortly. at the three ICMA- sponsored sessions. In Membership: The Membership Committee, under the the meantime, I would energetic leadership of Jan Marquardt and Doralynn most welcome your Pines, has been active in organizing special events around thoughts as to where we exhibitions and conferences in Boston, New York, Balti- as an organization should more, and elsewhere. These events have proved a fine be heading in the months way to bring regional ICMA members together. Full Nancy Ševčenko, ahead. details are given in Jan’s report on page 3. President of the ICMA Programs and Lectures: The annual “ICMA at the Nancy P. Ševčenko Courtauld” lecture was presented in February by Holger President Klein, who spoke on “Art, Faith, and Politics in Late [email protected] Medieval Venice.” The ICMA sponsored a session on “Moving Women, Moving Objects” at the College Art Association; it was organized by Tracy Chapman Hamil- ton and Mariah Proctor-Tiffany, who have organized two CONTRIBUTORS further sessions on the theme at Kalamazoo in May. There will be another ICMA-sponsored session at Kalamazoo on “The Cross in Medieval Art,” organized Madeline Caviness, Janis Elliot, Stephen Fliegel, by Beth Williamson. The ICMA will be sponsoring two Jennifer Grayburn, Tracy Chapman Hamilton, Lehti sessions on “Pseudo-Dionysius and the Arts,” organized Mairike Keelmann, Sherry Lindquist, Janet by Francesca Dell’Acqua, one of our foreign Associates, Marquardt, Doralynn Pines, Mariah Proctor-Tiffany, at the Leeds Medieval Conference in July, and there will Linda Safran, Elizabeth Sears, Nancy Ševčenko, more sponsorships come fall. Funds for travel to spon- Saygin Salgirli, Kyle G. Sweeney, and Andrew Tallon sored sessions have been made available to us by the 2 April 2015, no. 1 REPORT FROM THE MEMBERSHIP AND DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE The Membership and Developments Committee has Townsend, Director of the Museum of Biblical Art been active in arranging special events for members from (MOBIA). The 23 sculptures were able to travel from coast to coast. Florence, most for the first time, because the Museo dell’Opera del Duomo in Florence is undergoing exten- Membership Committee activities sive renovations. The redesigned museum, with signifi- cantly expanded galleries, is scheduled to re-open in the Boston: On Thursday even- fall of 2015. The sculptures include 10 works signed, ing, January 22, 2015, sixteen documented, or attributed to Donatello, including St. John ICMA members and one the Evangelist from the facade of the cathedral, and guest gathered for a tour of Abraham and Isaac and the Prophet known as Il Zuccone, the Isabella Stewart Gardner both from the Campanile. The exhibition continues at museum with new curator MOBIA until June 14, 2015. Christina Nielsen. It was a lovely nighttime exploration in Tel Aviv: On March 23, 2015, the ICMA held a recep- a nineteenth-century palazzo tion at the IMAGO conference in Tel Aviv hosted by replete with altars, dark cor- Assaf Pinkus, which took place before the final keynote ners, important artworks, and address by Hans Belting. Materials about ICMA and idiosyncratic displays. Christi- Gesta plus refreshments were available, and our members na did a wonderful job of con- attending the conference circulated and invited others to textualizing Mrs. Gardner’s collecting and presentation join. decisions. Members of the group added commentary about some medieval pieces. Afterwards, seven stayed for dinner and drinks in the café. Everyone agreed that members welcome these activities and asked for more. Los Angeles: California committee members Meredith Cohen and Beate Fricke organized a special ICMA event at the Getty Museum on November 21, 2014 for the exhibition “Chivalry.” Head Curator, Elizabeth Morrison, led the group and also pulled out some fascinating new ICMA at the IMAGO conference in Tel Aviv. acquisitions to show members, including a very interest- ing Ethiopian manuscript. People came from a wide geo- graphic area around California and found the experience unifying. They hope to repeat with another event in the spring. Milton Keynes, England: A Byzantine conference will be held at the Open University in Milton Keynes, March 28 though 30; Sharon Gerstel agreed to carry ICMA bookmarks for distribution there.