Paint and piety: collected essays on Medieval painting and polychrome sculpture

Abstract

Papers presented at a small, two-day forum in 2010, at the University of Olso. Participants from across Europe and the United States participated.

Contents

Medieval collection of the Museum of Cultural History, University of Oslo: a tradition of scholarship / Noelle L.W. Streeton -- pt. I Locating the sacred -- longue duree of 'Romanesque' altar decorations: frontals, canopies and altar sculptures / Justin Kroesen -- Presence of the sacred: relics in medieval wooden statues in Scandinavia / Lena Liepe -- Perspective on medieval perception of Norwegian church art / Kaja Kollandsrud -- Distribution of reliquaries and relics in the bishopric of Holar, c.1320 / Jon Vioar Sigurosson -- pt. II Artistic production in the thirteenth century -- Sedes Sapientiae of the van den Peereboom donation to the Royal Museum of Art and History in Brussels. Materials and techniques of a polychrome sculpture from the beginning of the thirteenth century / Jana Sanyova -- Possible English influence on Danish polychrome wooden sculpture of the thirteenth century / Ebbe Nyborg -- pt. III Objects and the English church -- Tester over the tomb of Richard II and Anne of Bohemia, Westminster Abbey / Abigail Granville -- Investigating medieval polychromy of West Country rood screens / Eddie Sinclair -- Reflections and translations: carving and painting rood screens / Spike Bucklow -- pt. IV Material histories for late medieval and early modern painting -- Conservation and the history of art -- The so-called 'Leka group': new information based on examinations of four triptychs / Tone M. Olstad -- The altarpiece from Vardø church, Finnmark: technological and art historical context / Daniela Pawel.