INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE: Images and Words in Exile. Avignon and Italy in the First Half of the 14th Century (1310-1352), Florence and Avignon, 7 – 11 April 2011. Florence, Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut (Palazzo Grifoni); Avignon, Musée du Petit Palais and Université d’Avignon (salle 2E02). Contacts: Dr. Elisa Brilli and Dr. Laura Fenelli.
At the start of the fourteenth century, far-reaching political events rapidly changed the set-up of the Mediterranean basin and together distorted the Ordo universalis through which the material and symbolic space of Christianitas had, for centuries, been understood.
While the topos of the Avignon papacy, or “Babylonian Captivity”, progressively took hold and Rome was increasingly portrayed as the new abandoned Jerusalem, the court of Avignon offered the opportunity for a political, cultural and artistic experimentation. The increasing use of the political tool of banishment, the proliferation of accusations of heresy, the bitterly contested quaestio de paupertate and, from a mystic-theological perspective, the quaestio de visione beatifica, are ones of the ways in which the new Christianity attempted, on different scales, to redefine its identity though exclusion practices.
On a different level, self-exclusion, pursued or accepted, is a rediscovered path for self-affirmation. We need only think about, to give two examples, the new forms of eremitism and Dante’s Commedia, according to some the first modern work of the Exilliteratur for the role accorded to the state of exile in constructing the figure of its author.
Exile, a mental image that has always been linked to the period of Avignon papacy, is the lens through which this interdisciplinary Conference aims to interpret the first half of the 14th century, from Henry VII’s imperial expedition which came to an unexpected end with his death at the gate of Siena, the moment when the irreversible nature of the Papal Curia’s transfer to France (1309-1313) became clear, up until the end of the papacy of Clement VI (1352).
Program
SESSION 1: Exclusion from the Civitas
THURSDAY 7 APRIL, Firenze, KHI (Palazzo Grifoni), Chair: Jean-Claude Maire Vigueur (Roma)
9:00 h, Gerhard Wolf (Firenze), Welcome; Elisa Brilli and Laura Fenelli (Firenze), Introduction; Fabrizio Ricciardelli (Villa Le Balze), Le modalità dell’azione politica a Firenze in età comunale; Matteo Ferrari (Pisa), Tradizione figurativa del bando politico tra Lombardia e Toscana; Gaetano Curzi (Chieti), La “condanna” dei Templari. Tracce materiali e memoria negata tra Francia e Italia; Irene Bueno (Firenze/Leiden), Come estirpare le cattive piante. La riflessione sull’eresia nell’opera esegetica di Jacques Fournier; Fabio Massaccesi (Bologna), Da Avignone a Ravenna: Giovanni XXII e Aimerico di Châtelus. Immagini e politica in Santa Maria in Porto Fuori; Discussion.
SESSION 2: Self-exclusion from the Civitas
THURSDAY 7 APRIL, Firenze, KHI (Palazzo Grifoni), Chair: Sofia Boesch Gajano (Roma)
15:00 h, Antonio Montefusco (Roma), Exsul pauper. Auto-esclusione e condanna nella tradizione monastica e francescana; Stefania Paone (Cosenza), L’immagine di Pietro del Morrone tra l’Abruzzo, Roma e Avignone; Marianne Besseyre (Paris), Les “Vies des Pères”, un manuscrit italien du XIVe siècle entre France et Italie; Alessandra Malquori (Firenze), L’immagine dell’anacoreta tra mistica e predicazione. Pittura in Toscana nella prima metà del Trecento; Luca Marcozzi (Roma), Retorica dell’esilio nella poesia lirica di Petrarca; Discussion.
Work in Progress on Exile
FRIDAY 8 APRIL, Firenze, KHI (Palazzo Grifoni), Chair: Laura Fenelli (Firenze)
9:00 h, Anna Fontes Baratto (Paris), Présentation d’un projet de recherche du CERLIM sur l’exil dans la littérature italienne médiévale; Alessandra Malquori (Firenze), Atlante dei temi figurativi della Tebaide.
Visit I
FRIDAY 8 APRIL, Firenze, Santa Croce
11:00 h, Andrea De Marchi (Firenze), Un’altra Santa Croce. Una visita selettiva e una lettura in filigrana dei primi programmi decorativi.
SESSION 3: Displaced Persons
SATURDAY 9 APRIL, Avignon, Musée du Petit Palais, Chair: Elisa Brilli (Firenze)
10:30 h, Dominique Vingtain (Avignon), Welcome; Giuliano Milani (Roma), Appunti per una rilettura del bando di Dante; Dieter Blume (Jena), Francesco da Barberino. The Experience of Exile and the Allegory of Love; Sylvain Piron (Paris), Les exils de Opicinus de Canistris; Marina Gagliano (Paris), “Hierosolymitanus exul inter et super flumina Babilonis indignans scripsi”. La polemica antiavignonese di Petrarca e il modello di Dante exul; Discussion.
Keynote Lecture
SATURDAY 9 APRIL, Avignon, Musée du Petit Palais
16:30 h, Agostino Paravicini Bagliani (Lausanne), Avignon, une autre Rome?
SESSION 4: Avignon: the Making of a Capital
SUNDAY 10 APRIL, Avignon, Musée du Petit Palais, Chair: Gerhard Wolf (Firenze)
9:00 h, Joëlle Rollo-Koster (Kingston), Avignon’s Capitalization and the Legitimation of Transiency; Xavier Barral-Altet (Rennes/Venezia), Afficher l’exil à l’extérieur du palais. L’entrée monumentale du Palais des Papes d’Avignon; Barbara Bombi (Canterbury), The “Avignon Captivity” as Means of Success. The Circle of the Frescobaldi; Etienne Anheim (Versailles), Simone Martini à Avignon: une histoire en négatif? Francesca Manzari (Roma), Le opportunità offerte dall’esilio. Elementi multiculturali e libertà d’innovazione nella miniatura avignonese del Trecento; Discussion.
SESSION 5: Exchanging Glances
SUNDAY 10 APRIL, Avignon, Musée du Petit Palais, Chair: Serena Romano (Lausanne)
14:30 h, Maria Alessandra Bilotta (Paris), Avignon comme Bologne? Remarques sur le rôle d’Avignon dans la production des manuscrits juridiques; Claudia Bolgia (Edinburgh), Images in the City. Presence, Absence and ‘Exile’ in Rome in the First Half of the 14th Century; Theresa Holler (Firenze), L’Aldilà della Cappella Strozzi. I domenicani, l’esilio di Dante e il ritorno dell’Inferno; Francesco Pasquale (Venezia), Napoli traslata. Roberto d’Angiò e la sua corte ad Avignone; Discussion.
SESSION 6: Mapping Avignon’s Space
MONDAY 11 APRIL, Avignon, Université d’Avignon (salle 2E02), Chair: Michel Laclotte (Paris)
9:00 h, Marylin Nicoud (Avignon), Welcome; Sebastian Zanke (Augsburg), Imagined Spaces? John XXII, the Papal Registers and European Policy (1316-1334); Gottfried Kerscher (Trier), Hofordnung – Rangordnung – Raumordnung. Disruptive Changes in Avignon; Tina Sabater (Palma de Mallorca), Intorno all’influenza della corte di Avignone sull’arte. La pittura maiorchina del XIV secolo; Rosa Alcoy (Barcelona), Avignone e la Catalogna dei Bassa; Alessandro Tomei (Chieti), Opere e artisti in esilio tra Italia e Provenza (con qualche ritorno). Modelli, stili e iconografie; Discussion.
Visit II
MONDAY 11 APRIL, Avignon
15:00 h, Marie-Claude Léonelli (Avignon) and Dominique Vingtain (Avignon), Décors peints médiévaux avignonnais, entre France et Italie.
Scientific Coordination: Elisa Brilli, Laura Fenelli and Gerhard Wolf. In collaboration with Musée du Petit Palais d’Avignon & Université d’Avignon et des Pays de Vaucluse.