Nicholas Herman (University of Pennsylvania): The Painterly Page: Pictorial Space Illuminated, 1440–1520 Hugo van der Velden (University of Amsterdam): Masters of the Land: Landscape and Lordship in the Très Riches Heures and the Turin-Milan HoursĬhaired by Victor M. Along the way in Quattrocento Landscape PaintingĪng Li (University of Oxford): The Allure of the Landscape in Renaissance Painting Isabella Augart (University of Hamburg): Paths.

Péter Bokody (University of Plymouth): Embedded Images in Perspective Space and the Representation of Architecture in Early Renaissance ItalyĬhaired by Machtelt Brüggen Israëls (University of Amsterdam) Livia Lupi (University of Warwick): Perspectiva and Prospectiva. Valentina Cacopardo (The Warburg Institute): Experiencing Imaginative Pictorial Space: Memory and Oblivion in the Illuminations of the Anonymous Manuscript Di l’Artifitial Memoria (ca 1450-70) Joost Joustra (The National Gallery, London): De pictura and the Patristic Renaissance Opening remarks by Niko Munz (University of York)Ĭhaired by Jeroen Stumpel (Utrecht University) This one-day workshop provides participants with opportunities to explore their own ‘perspectives’ on pictorial space in Late Medieval and Early Renaissance art through presentation and discussion. We hope to examine the rich legacy of this school of thought and re-integrate it with twenty-first-century scholarly concerns. Today pictorial space, as practised by these eminent twentieth-century scholars, can appear somewhat outmoded, divorced from more material and social questions. As such, pictorial space became an alternate avenue of art historical interpretation at a time of iconographic and connoisseurial dominance. They sought to determine the means by which artists on both sides of the Alps represented the third dimension on a two-dimensional surface. After Panofsky’s „Die Perspektive als ‘symbolische Form'' was published in 1927 by the Vorträge der Bibliothek Warburg, a number of art historians, from Otto Pächt to John White, made pictorial space the main focus of their study. Pictorial space was a pivotal area of art historical research from the early to mid-twentieth century. How might we bring a more material and social significance to such an abstract consideration as perspective? The purpose of this workshop is to reconsider the traditional conception of pictorial space in Western art from the Late Middle Ages to the Early Renaissance, in the fourteenth, fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries.