About the event

Speaker: Dr Denva Gallant

Chair: Dr Amelia Hope-Jones

Abstract

Examining late-medieval frescoes at the Augustinian monastery of Santa Marta in Siena, this talk offers a new approach to eremitic landscapes, or Thebaids. Reading the images through the lens of the spiritual journey, it is argued that the pithy vignettes pictured in these frescoes form a cohesive edificatory programme that is activated by walking.

Biography

Denva Gallant is an internationally-recognised scholar and specialist in European medieval art and architecture. Her scholarly work explores issues of narrative, the rise of the eremitic ideal as exemplum virtutis, environmental imaginaries (such as the desert), race and ethnicity in late medieval Italy and issues of patronage in the middle ages.

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