52nd Annual Sessions of the Middle Atlantic Symposium
52nd Annual Sessions of the Middle Atlantic Symposium
Saturday, March 5, 2022
10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.
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Since 1971, the department and the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (CASVA) at the National Gallery of Art have jointly sponsored the Middle Atlantic Symposium in the History of Art.
Morning Session, 10:00–11:45 a.m.
Steven D. Nelson, moderator
Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts
Joseph Kopta
Temple University
Chromatic Networks: Materiality and Materialism of Middle Byzantine Gospel Lectionaries (ca. 850–1204 CE)
Introduction: Elizabeth S. Bolman
Amanda Chen
University of Maryland
Transition, Transformation, and the Threshold of the Domus M. Caesi Blandi [VII.1.40] in Pompeii
Introduction: Maryl B. Gensheimer
Jamie Richardson Sandhu
Bryn Mawr College
The Divine Liefhebber: A New Interpretation of Frans Francken the Younger’s "Allegory of the Pictura Sacra" (c. 1635)
Introduction: Sylvia W. Houghteling
Carolyn Davis
George Washington University
Literacy, Devotion, and Globalism: Enconchado Paintings of St. Anne in Colonial Mexico
Introduction: Barbara von Barghahn
Afternoon Session, 12:15 p.m.–2:00 p.m.
Tess Korobkin, moderator
University of Maryland
Rachel Ozerkevich
University of North Carolina
Class and Leisure Along the Seine: Seurat’s Bathers at Asnières (1884) and Olympic Ideals
Introduction: Tatiana C. String
Meg MacKenzie
American University
The Darkroom as Weapon? Anti-Colonialism and Ethnography in Raoul Ubac’s Penthésilée Photomontages
Introduction: Juliet Bellow
Marica Antonucci
Johns Hopkins University
What’s in a Name? Mario Schifano, Sidney Janis, and the Politics of Style in Postwar Italy
Introduction: Stephen J. Campbell
Eleanore Neumann
University of Virginia
“Who would believe it?”: Maria Graham and the Gendered Representation of Slavery during the Independence of Brazil (1821–1824)
Introduction: Douglas Fordham