Wednesday, 19 April 2017
9:30 - 10:00 Registration
10:00 - 10:30 Welcoming Addresses
10:30 - 11:00 Ioanna Christoforaki (Academy of Athens)
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About the Mendicant Orders in the Eastern Mediterranean (But Were Afraid to Ask)
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
One Step Beyond: The Mendicants in Constantinople and Dalmatia
11:30 - 11:50 Şebnem Dönbekci (Koç University)
Revisiting the Vita Cycle of Saint Francis in Constantinople: Power and Ideology in the Medieval Mediterranean
11:50 - 12:10 Silvia Pedone (Sapienza Università di Roma) and Nicholas Melvani (Koç University)
Constantinople and the Dominicans: History, Topography, and Monuments on Both Shores of the Golden Horn
12:10 - 12:30 Rafał Quirini-Popławski (Jagiellonian University of Kraków)
Mendicant Art and Architecture in the Black Sea: Pera and Caffa
12:30 - 12:50 Discussion
12:50 - 15:00 Lunch
15:00 - 15:20 Josip Belamarić (Institute of Art History - Cvito Fisković Centre and University of Split)
Franciscans and Art on the Croatian Coast in the Thirteenth Century
15:20 - 15:40 Zoraida Demori Staničić (Croatian Conservation Institute)
Franciscan Convents in Hvar: Between Cult and Politics
15:40 - 16:00 Nina Kudiš (University of Rijeka)
Venetian Seicento Painters in Franciscan and Dominican Churches of Dalmatia: Some Important Examples
16:00 - 16:20 Ivana Prijatelj Pavičić (University of Split),
Anti-Ottoman Narratives on the Altarpieces of Our Lady of the Rosary and Our Lady of Carmel in the Dominican and Franciscan Churches of Dalmatia
16:20 - 16:40 Discussion
16:40 - 17:00 Coffee Break
17:00 - 17:45 Keynote Lecture
Sophia Kalopissi-Verti (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)
Byzantium ‘Challenged’ after 1204: Reactions, Responses and their Reflections in Iconography
17:45 - 18:00 Discussion
19:30 - 21:30 Cocktail reception at Nafplia Palace Hotel sponsored by Nafplia Palace Hotel and Villas (speakers only)
Thursday, 20 April 2017
Franciscans and Dominicans in Latin Romania
9:00 - 9:20 Michalis Olympios (University of Cyprus)
Eloquent Marginalia: Figural Sculpture at the Dominican Church in Negroponte (Chalkis, Euboea)
9:20 - 9:40 Demetris Athanasoulis (Ephorate of Antiquities of the Cyclades)
The Church of Saint Francis in Glarentza (Clarence)
9:40 - 10:00 Eleni Barmparitsa (Ephorate of Antiquities of Messenia)
Settlement and Activities of the Mendicant Orders in the Peloponnese during the Late Middle Ages
10:00 - 10:20 Discussion
10:20 - 10:50 Coffee Break
10:50 - 11:10 Panayota Volti (Université Paris-Nanterre)
Some Decorative Elements of the Church of the Virgin in Merbaka, Argolis: A Visual Exegesis of Dominican History and Spirituality?
11:10 - 11:30 Guy D. R. Sanders (American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Corinth Excavations)
The Archaeology of the Poor at Corinth in the Time of William of Moerbeke OP, Translator of Aristotle, Archimedes, Hero and Galen and Dominican Bishop of Corinth (1278-85)
11:30 - 11:50 Vicky Foskolou (University of Crete)
Reflections of Mendicant Religiosity in the Monumental Painting of the Latin Southern Greek Mainland and the Islands (13th-15th c.)
11:50 - 12:10 Discussion
12:10 - 12:30 Daphne Chronaki (Ephorate of Antiquities of Lassithi)
Παρατηρήσεις στη χωροθέτηση και στις χαράξεις ναών των επαιτικών ταγμάτων στην Κρήτη
[Observations on the planning and proportions of mendicant churches on Crete]
12:30 - 12:50 Eleni Kanaki, Daphne Chronaki and Chara Bilmezi (Ephorates of Antiquities of Herakleion and Lassithi)
Ο ναός του Αγίου Πέτρου των Δομηνικανών στο Ηράκλειο
[The church of Saint Peter of the Dominicans in Herakleion]
12:50 - 13:10 Periandros Epitropakis (Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports)
Το χρονικό της ανασκαφής της μονής του Αγίου Φραγκίσκου Ηρακλείου μέσα από τον τύπο της εποχής
[The chronicle of the excavation of Saint Francis monastery in Heraklion through contemporary press]
13:10 - 13:30 Discussion
13:30 - 15:00 Lunch break
15:00 - 15:20 Olga Gratziou (University of Crete)
The Friars and their Impact on Crete: Material and Visual Evidence
15:20 - 15:40 Kostas Giapitsoglou (Ephorate of Antiquities of Rethymnon)
Tο καθολικό της μονής της Αγίας Μαρίας Μαγδαληνής των Δομηνικανών στο Ρέθυμνο
[The katholikon of the monastery of Saint Mary Madgalene of the Dominicans in Rehtymnon]
15:40 - 16:00 Maria Borboudaki (Byzantine and Christian Museum of Athens)
Evidence of Dominican Presence in the Cretan Countryside: A Fresco of Saint Peter of Verona in the Church of Saint George in the Village of Apostoloi Pediados (Herakleion)
16:00 - 16:20 Discussion
16:20 - 16:40 Coffee Break
16:40 - 17:00 Maria Constantoudaki-Kitromilides (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)
Saint Francis and Private Devotion in Venetian Crete: Visual and Archival Evidence
17:10 - 17:30 Chryssa Ranoutsaki (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
Saint Francis and Saint Catherine: Two Eminent Model Saints of the Mendicant Orders in Medieval Crete
17:30 - 17:50 Nickiphoros Tsougarakis (Edge Hill University)
Re-examining the Franciscan Library of Candia
18:10 - 18:30 Discussion
18:30 - 19:15 Keynote Lecture
Donal Cooper (University of Cambridge)
The Mendicant Orders as Patrons of Art and Architecture in Venetian Herakleion
19:15 - 19:30 Discussion
20:00 - 22:00 Conference Dinner at Fougaro sponsored by Kyknos S.A. Greek Canning Company (speakers only)
Friday, 21 April 2017
Mendicant Presence in the Crusader Levant
9:30 - 9:50 Margit Mersch (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)
The Development of Local and Trans-Regional Mendicant Architecture: A Comparative Glance on Franciscan Churches on Cyprus and Crete (13th-14th c.)
9:50 - 10:10 Thomas Kaffenberger (Université de Fribourg)
Saint Clare or Saint Dominic? New Observations on the ‘Hagia Fotou’ Ruins in Famagusta
10:10 - 10:30 Maria Paschali (Independent Scholar)
An Image with Our Lady of Carmel in Famagusta and the Interplay of Sanctity, Piety and Power
10:30 - 10:50 Ioannis Eliades (Byzantine Museum AMF, Nicosia), Sub Tutela Matris. A Unique Iconography of the Carmelites on Cyprus
10:50 - 11:10 Discussion
11:10 - 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 - 11:50 Rehav Rubin and Milka Levy-Rubin (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
How did the Franciscans Choose to Portray Jerusalem?
11:50 - 12:10 Fanny Vitto (Israel Antiquities Authority)
The Cradle of the Carmelites in the Holy Land before Becoming a Mendicant Order
12:10 - 12:30 Barbara Drake Boehm and Melanie Holcomb (The Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Facing the Forbidden: Felix Fabri in Medieval Jerusalem
12:30 - 12:50 Discussion
12:50 - 14:30 Lunch break
14:30 - 14:50 Jaroslav Folda (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Artistic Commissions related to the Mendicant Orders in the Thirteenth Century Crusader Levant
14:50 - 15:10 Lucy-Anne Hunt (Manchester Metropolitan University)
Centres and Peripheries: A Perspective on Mendicants and Christian Art in the Crusader States and Muslim Egypt
15:10 - 15:30 Prodromos Papanikolaou (King’s College London)
Artistic Traces of Franciscan Piety in Hospitaller Rhodes: The Marble Icons of the Virgin and St. John the Evangelist
15:30 - 15:50 Discussion
15:50 - 16:10 Coffee Break
16:10 - 16:30 Amy Neff (University of Tennessee)
Sinai in the Franciscan Visual Imagination
16:30 - 16:50 Manuel Castiñeiras (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
From Catalonia to Sinai: A Two-Way Journey. Revisiting the Legend of King Abgar in the Saint Francis Altarpiece of Santa Clara in Vic (1414-1415)
16:50 - 17:10 Discussion
17:10 - 17:30 Coffee break
17:30 - 18:15 Keynote Lecture
Michele Bacci (Université de Fribourg)
The Franciscans as Promoters of New Holy Sites
18:15 - 18:30 Discussion
19:30 - 21:30 Conference Dinner (speakers only)
Saturday, 22 April 2017
Mendicant Art between East and West
9:30 - 9:50 Jean-Pierre Caillet (Université Paris-Nanterre) and Fabienne Joubert (Université Paris-Sorbonne)
Byzantine Sources of the Crucifixion in Italy: Revisiting the Role of the Mendicants
9:50 - 10:10 Emily Guerry (University of Kent)
A Path Prepared for Them by the Lord: Saint Louis, Dominican Diplomacy, and the Odyssey of Jacques and André of Longjumeau
10:10 - 10:30 Krisztina Ilko (University of Cambridge)
Augustinian Friars in the East
10:30 - 10:50 Discussion
10:50 - 11:10 Coffee Break
11:10 - 11:30 Helen Evans (The Metropolitan Museum of Art)
The Franciscans among the Armenians
11:30 - 11:50 Ioanna Rapti (École Pratique des Hautes Études)
Armenian Αrt and the Μendicant Οrders in the East: Εncounters and Ιnteractions
11:50 - 12:10 Lauren Arnold (University of San Francisco)
Armenian Carpets in Early Renaissance Paintings: The Mendicant Orders and their Role in Facilitating a Migration of Eastern Christians to Italy (1250-1500)
12:10 - 12:30 Discussion
12:30 - 14:30 Lunch break
Round Table Discussion
14:30 - 16:30
Center for Hellenic Studies in Greece, Harvard University
Philhellene Square and King Otto Street
(conference speakers only)
Welcoming Address: Dr Christos Giannopoulos (Center for Hellenic Studies in Greece, Harvard University)
Coordinator: Ioanna Christoforaki (Academy of Athens)
Louise Bourdua (University of Warwick)
Anne Derbes (Hood College)
Julian Gardner (University of Warwick)
Maria Georgopoulou (The Gennadeios Library, ASCSA)
Maria Vassilaki (University of Thessaly)
Gerhard Wolf (Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz - Max Planck Institut)
16:30 - 17:00 Afternoon Coffee
19:30 - 21:30 Conference Dinner (speakers only)
Sunday, 23 April 2017
(conference speakers only)
Excursion to medieval monuments in the Argolis (Agia Moni in Nafplion and Church of the Virgin in Merbaka) in the morning. Visit to the new Byzantine Museum in Argos, followed by a guided tour of the Corinth excavations by Guy Sanders in the afternoon.
9:30 - 10:00 Registration
10:00 - 10:30 Welcoming Addresses
10:30 - 11:00 Ioanna Christoforaki (Academy of Athens)
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About the Mendicant Orders in the Eastern Mediterranean (But Were Afraid to Ask)
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
One Step Beyond: The Mendicants in Constantinople and Dalmatia
11:30 - 11:50 Şebnem Dönbekci (Koç University)
Revisiting the Vita Cycle of Saint Francis in Constantinople: Power and Ideology in the Medieval Mediterranean
11:50 - 12:10 Silvia Pedone (Sapienza Università di Roma) and Nicholas Melvani (Koç University)
Constantinople and the Dominicans: History, Topography, and Monuments on Both Shores of the Golden Horn
12:10 - 12:30 Rafał Quirini-Popławski (Jagiellonian University of Kraków)
Mendicant Art and Architecture in the Black Sea: Pera and Caffa
12:30 - 12:50 Discussion
12:50 - 15:00 Lunch
15:00 - 15:20 Josip Belamarić (Institute of Art History - Cvito Fisković Centre and University of Split)
Franciscans and Art on the Croatian Coast in the Thirteenth Century
15:20 - 15:40 Zoraida Demori Staničić (Croatian Conservation Institute)
Franciscan Convents in Hvar: Between Cult and Politics
15:40 - 16:00 Nina Kudiš (University of Rijeka)
Venetian Seicento Painters in Franciscan and Dominican Churches of Dalmatia: Some Important Examples
16:00 - 16:20 Ivana Prijatelj Pavičić (University of Split),
Anti-Ottoman Narratives on the Altarpieces of Our Lady of the Rosary and Our Lady of Carmel in the Dominican and Franciscan Churches of Dalmatia
16:20 - 16:40 Discussion
16:40 - 17:00 Coffee Break
17:00 - 17:45 Keynote Lecture
Sophia Kalopissi-Verti (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)
Byzantium ‘Challenged’ after 1204: Reactions, Responses and their Reflections in Iconography
17:45 - 18:00 Discussion
19:30 - 21:30 Cocktail reception at Nafplia Palace Hotel sponsored by Nafplia Palace Hotel and Villas (speakers only)
Thursday, 20 April 2017
Franciscans and Dominicans in Latin Romania
9:00 - 9:20 Michalis Olympios (University of Cyprus)
Eloquent Marginalia: Figural Sculpture at the Dominican Church in Negroponte (Chalkis, Euboea)
9:20 - 9:40 Demetris Athanasoulis (Ephorate of Antiquities of the Cyclades)
The Church of Saint Francis in Glarentza (Clarence)
9:40 - 10:00 Eleni Barmparitsa (Ephorate of Antiquities of Messenia)
Settlement and Activities of the Mendicant Orders in the Peloponnese during the Late Middle Ages
10:00 - 10:20 Discussion
10:20 - 10:50 Coffee Break
10:50 - 11:10 Panayota Volti (Université Paris-Nanterre)
Some Decorative Elements of the Church of the Virgin in Merbaka, Argolis: A Visual Exegesis of Dominican History and Spirituality?
11:10 - 11:30 Guy D. R. Sanders (American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Corinth Excavations)
The Archaeology of the Poor at Corinth in the Time of William of Moerbeke OP, Translator of Aristotle, Archimedes, Hero and Galen and Dominican Bishop of Corinth (1278-85)
11:30 - 11:50 Vicky Foskolou (University of Crete)
Reflections of Mendicant Religiosity in the Monumental Painting of the Latin Southern Greek Mainland and the Islands (13th-15th c.)
11:50 - 12:10 Discussion
12:10 - 12:30 Daphne Chronaki (Ephorate of Antiquities of Lassithi)
Παρατηρήσεις στη χωροθέτηση και στις χαράξεις ναών των επαιτικών ταγμάτων στην Κρήτη
[Observations on the planning and proportions of mendicant churches on Crete]
12:30 - 12:50 Eleni Kanaki, Daphne Chronaki and Chara Bilmezi (Ephorates of Antiquities of Herakleion and Lassithi)
Ο ναός του Αγίου Πέτρου των Δομηνικανών στο Ηράκλειο
[The church of Saint Peter of the Dominicans in Herakleion]
12:50 - 13:10 Periandros Epitropakis (Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports)
Το χρονικό της ανασκαφής της μονής του Αγίου Φραγκίσκου Ηρακλείου μέσα από τον τύπο της εποχής
[The chronicle of the excavation of Saint Francis monastery in Heraklion through contemporary press]
13:10 - 13:30 Discussion
13:30 - 15:00 Lunch break
15:00 - 15:20 Olga Gratziou (University of Crete)
The Friars and their Impact on Crete: Material and Visual Evidence
15:20 - 15:40 Kostas Giapitsoglou (Ephorate of Antiquities of Rethymnon)
Tο καθολικό της μονής της Αγίας Μαρίας Μαγδαληνής των Δομηνικανών στο Ρέθυμνο
[The katholikon of the monastery of Saint Mary Madgalene of the Dominicans in Rehtymnon]
15:40 - 16:00 Maria Borboudaki (Byzantine and Christian Museum of Athens)
Evidence of Dominican Presence in the Cretan Countryside: A Fresco of Saint Peter of Verona in the Church of Saint George in the Village of Apostoloi Pediados (Herakleion)
16:00 - 16:20 Discussion
16:20 - 16:40 Coffee Break
16:40 - 17:00 Maria Constantoudaki-Kitromilides (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)
Saint Francis and Private Devotion in Venetian Crete: Visual and Archival Evidence
17:10 - 17:30 Chryssa Ranoutsaki (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
Saint Francis and Saint Catherine: Two Eminent Model Saints of the Mendicant Orders in Medieval Crete
17:30 - 17:50 Nickiphoros Tsougarakis (Edge Hill University)
Re-examining the Franciscan Library of Candia
18:10 - 18:30 Discussion
18:30 - 19:15 Keynote Lecture
Donal Cooper (University of Cambridge)
The Mendicant Orders as Patrons of Art and Architecture in Venetian Herakleion
19:15 - 19:30 Discussion
20:00 - 22:00 Conference Dinner at Fougaro sponsored by Kyknos S.A. Greek Canning Company (speakers only)
Friday, 21 April 2017
Mendicant Presence in the Crusader Levant
9:30 - 9:50 Margit Mersch (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)
The Development of Local and Trans-Regional Mendicant Architecture: A Comparative Glance on Franciscan Churches on Cyprus and Crete (13th-14th c.)
9:50 - 10:10 Thomas Kaffenberger (Université de Fribourg)
Saint Clare or Saint Dominic? New Observations on the ‘Hagia Fotou’ Ruins in Famagusta
10:10 - 10:30 Maria Paschali (Independent Scholar)
An Image with Our Lady of Carmel in Famagusta and the Interplay of Sanctity, Piety and Power
10:30 - 10:50 Ioannis Eliades (Byzantine Museum AMF, Nicosia), Sub Tutela Matris. A Unique Iconography of the Carmelites on Cyprus
10:50 - 11:10 Discussion
11:10 - 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 - 11:50 Rehav Rubin and Milka Levy-Rubin (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
How did the Franciscans Choose to Portray Jerusalem?
11:50 - 12:10 Fanny Vitto (Israel Antiquities Authority)
The Cradle of the Carmelites in the Holy Land before Becoming a Mendicant Order
12:10 - 12:30 Barbara Drake Boehm and Melanie Holcomb (The Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Facing the Forbidden: Felix Fabri in Medieval Jerusalem
12:30 - 12:50 Discussion
12:50 - 14:30 Lunch break
14:30 - 14:50 Jaroslav Folda (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Artistic Commissions related to the Mendicant Orders in the Thirteenth Century Crusader Levant
14:50 - 15:10 Lucy-Anne Hunt (Manchester Metropolitan University)
Centres and Peripheries: A Perspective on Mendicants and Christian Art in the Crusader States and Muslim Egypt
15:10 - 15:30 Prodromos Papanikolaou (King’s College London)
Artistic Traces of Franciscan Piety in Hospitaller Rhodes: The Marble Icons of the Virgin and St. John the Evangelist
15:30 - 15:50 Discussion
15:50 - 16:10 Coffee Break
16:10 - 16:30 Amy Neff (University of Tennessee)
Sinai in the Franciscan Visual Imagination
16:30 - 16:50 Manuel Castiñeiras (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
From Catalonia to Sinai: A Two-Way Journey. Revisiting the Legend of King Abgar in the Saint Francis Altarpiece of Santa Clara in Vic (1414-1415)
16:50 - 17:10 Discussion
17:10 - 17:30 Coffee break
17:30 - 18:15 Keynote Lecture
Michele Bacci (Université de Fribourg)
The Franciscans as Promoters of New Holy Sites
18:15 - 18:30 Discussion
19:30 - 21:30 Conference Dinner (speakers only)
Saturday, 22 April 2017
Mendicant Art between East and West
9:30 - 9:50 Jean-Pierre Caillet (Université Paris-Nanterre) and Fabienne Joubert (Université Paris-Sorbonne)
Byzantine Sources of the Crucifixion in Italy: Revisiting the Role of the Mendicants
9:50 - 10:10 Emily Guerry (University of Kent)
A Path Prepared for Them by the Lord: Saint Louis, Dominican Diplomacy, and the Odyssey of Jacques and André of Longjumeau
10:10 - 10:30 Krisztina Ilko (University of Cambridge)
Augustinian Friars in the East
10:30 - 10:50 Discussion
10:50 - 11:10 Coffee Break
11:10 - 11:30 Helen Evans (The Metropolitan Museum of Art)
The Franciscans among the Armenians
11:30 - 11:50 Ioanna Rapti (École Pratique des Hautes Études)
Armenian Αrt and the Μendicant Οrders in the East: Εncounters and Ιnteractions
11:50 - 12:10 Lauren Arnold (University of San Francisco)
Armenian Carpets in Early Renaissance Paintings: The Mendicant Orders and their Role in Facilitating a Migration of Eastern Christians to Italy (1250-1500)
12:10 - 12:30 Discussion
12:30 - 14:30 Lunch break
Round Table Discussion
14:30 - 16:30
Center for Hellenic Studies in Greece, Harvard University
Philhellene Square and King Otto Street
(conference speakers only)
Welcoming Address: Dr Christos Giannopoulos (Center for Hellenic Studies in Greece, Harvard University)
Coordinator: Ioanna Christoforaki (Academy of Athens)
Louise Bourdua (University of Warwick)
Anne Derbes (Hood College)
Julian Gardner (University of Warwick)
Maria Georgopoulou (The Gennadeios Library, ASCSA)
Maria Vassilaki (University of Thessaly)
Gerhard Wolf (Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz - Max Planck Institut)
16:30 - 17:00 Afternoon Coffee
19:30 - 21:30 Conference Dinner (speakers only)
Sunday, 23 April 2017
(conference speakers only)
Excursion to medieval monuments in the Argolis (Agia Moni in Nafplion and Church of the Virgin in Merbaka) in the morning. Visit to the new Byzantine Museum in Argos, followed by a guided tour of the Corinth excavations by Guy Sanders in the afternoon.
Conference Abstracts
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