The Skylitzes matritensis under study
Within the framework of the research project, Byzantine Illuminated Manuscripts in Spain: Artworks, Context and Materiality -MABILUS (MICINN-PID2020-120067GB-I00), and thanks to a collaboration agreement signed in December 2022 between the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), the Biblioteca Nacional de España (BNE), and the Instituto del Patrimonio Cultural de España (IPCE), the Skylitzes matritensis (BNE, Vitr. […]
Participation of Manuel Castiñeiras to the Online International Conference: “The Cast of Piety: Medieval and Post-Medieval Metalwork on Mount Athos (10th -16th c.)”
Manuel Castiñeiras participates to the Online International Conference: “The Cast of Piety: Medieval and Post-Medieval Metalwork on Mount Athos (10th -16th c.)”, 2-3 December 2022, which is organized by the Aristotle University of Thessalonki, with the paper: “The Diptych of the Despots of Epiros at the Cathedral of Cuenca: opus venetum and Byzantine workshops in the 14th-century art” […]
I International Seminar – BIZANTIUM AND THE MEDITERRANEAN (11th – 13th c.) Multiculturality, Gender and Prophane topics in Illuminated Manuscripts.
Byzantine illuminated manuscripts constitute a fascinating field of study to be explored in terms of cross-cultural exchanges , gender issues and the spreading of profane topics. This phenomenon was especially richin the turmoil of 12th-and-13th century art in the Mediterranean as a privileged space for interchangingbetween Latins, Greeks and Muslims. The prestige of Constantinople, the […]
Participation of Stefanos Kroustallis (ESCRBC, Madrid) in the Conferences: Book Ornament and Luxury Critique
September 16th, 2022 – Participation of Stefanos Kroustallis (Research team) in the Conferences Book Ornament and Luxury Critique, Zurich 15-17th September 2022, with the paper “Notis ornare libellos: Manuscript Illumination as a Sumptuary Art in the Middle Age”. The conference were organized for the project: Textures of Sacred Scripture. Materials and Semantics of Sacred Book […]
Participation of Manuel Castiñeiras and Verónica Abenza in the 24th International Congress of Byzantine Studies
Participation of Manuel Castñeiras (IP) and Verónica Abenza (Equipo de Trabajo) in the 24th International Congress of Byzantine Studies. Byzantium-Bride Between Worlds, Venice and Padua, August 22nd-27th, 2022, with the papers: M. Castiñeiras, “Rethinking Ornament: the Akathistos Escurialensis as Epitome of the Late Paleologian Art” Verónica Carla Abenza Soria, “Reassessing Visual Rhetoric in Byzantine Female […]
CALL OF PAPERS for the I International Seminar MABILUS: Byzantium and the Mediterranean (11th-13th c.)
ALL OF PAPERS for the I International Seminar MABILUS: Byzantium and the Mediterranean (11th-13th c.): Multiculturalism, Gender, and Profane Topics in Illuminated Manuscripts, which will be celabrated on November 11th, 2022 Coor. Manuel Castiñeiras (UAB), Carles Sánchez Márquez (UAB), Giulia Arcidiacono (Università di Catania). We invite you to submit a paper proposal (including a 120-word […]
II Workshop MABILUS- Illuminated Manuscripts in Byzantium: techniques, illustration and fruition
II Workshop MABILUS- Illuminated Manuscripts in Byzantium: techniques, illustration and fruition. Coordinators: Inmaculada Pérez Martín, Manuel Castiñeiras, Verónica Abenza. Celebration: Thursday, June 9th, 2022, CSIC, Madrid. These members of the MABILUS project participate: Manuel Castiñeiras, Inmaculada Pérez Martín, Carmen García-Bueno, Stefanos Kroustallis, Arsenio Sánchez, Alfredo Calahorra, Verónica Abenza, Carles Sánchez. II Workshop MABILUS- Illuminated Manuscripts […]
Call for Papers: Open-Access Journal ARTS, Special Issue: Byzantium and the Mediterranean (11th-13th c.)
Call for Papers: Open-Access Journal ARTS, Special Issue: Byzantium and the Mediterranean (11th-13th c.): Multiculturalism, Gender and Profane Topics in illuminated manuscripts , Guest Editors: Manuel Castiñeiras, Carles Sänchez Márquez and Verónica Abenza Soria. Deadline: Monday, 31 October 2022 https://www.mdpi.com/journal/arts/special_issues/Byzantium_Mediterranean
Participacion of Manuel Castiñeiras in the International Workshop Sung, Written, Painted. The Akathistos Hymnos and Intermedial Compositional Processes in Later Byzantium
Participacion of Manuel Castiñeiras IP from research project MABILUS, with the paper, “A Song of Victory on the Eve of the Fall: Re-Framing the Akathistos Escurialensis”, in the International Workshop Sung, Written, Painted. The Akathistos Hymnos and Intermedial Compositional Processes in Later Byzantium, 2-3 Junio, 2022, Georg-August Universität Göttingen, organized by Jon C. Cubas Díaz. […]
I Workshop MABILUS
El visible i l’invisible : la tecnologia al servei de l’anàlisi de les obres d’art, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, dir. Manuel Castiñeiras, Sala de Reunions del Departament de Història de l’Art, Friday, march 18th, 16.00-20.00, with the participation of Maria Antonia Zalbidea Muñoz (UPV) and Martí Bertrán González (UPC). I Workshop MABILUS
