ERC Sensart - The Sensuous Appeal of the Holy

Seminario SenSArt "La materialità e i suoi significati nel Medioevo: il cristallo di rocca"

Interventi:
📍 “Antinomie: il cristallo di rocca nell'arte medievale”, di Stefania Gerevini, Università Bocconi Milano
📍 “Sentire la Generazione Eterna. Il cristallo di rocca nella Visitazione del Metropolitan Museum di New York”, di Davide Tramarin, Università di Padova

⏰ Mercoledì 28 maggio 2025, alle ore 17:00 presso Sala Sartori di Palazzo Liviano, Piazza Capitaniato 7, Padova

👉 Per partecipare online scrivere a: [email protected]

Il seminario conclude il Ciclo “Seminars on Medieval Art, Religion, and Culture“ organizzato nell'ambito del progetto ERC-Starting Grant 2020 SenSArt - The Sensuous Appeal of the Holy. Sensory Agency of Sacred Art and Somatised Spiritual Experiences in Medieval Europe (12th-15th century), PI Zuleika Murat, grant agreement number 950248.

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📣 The PROGRAMME for SenSArt's second international conference, “The Senses, Cognition, and the Body in Medieval Devotional Practices,” is now AVAILABLE!
The conference, organized by Zuleika Murat, Pieter Boonstra, Micol Long, and Davide Tramarin, will be held in Padua from June 5-7, 2024, and promises to be an exciting event. 😉
This interdisciplinary conference, integrating sensory studies, material culture studies, cognitive studies, and historical research, provides a rich platform for understanding the profound changes in religion during the medieval period. By exploring somatized spiritual experiences, the conference aims to shed new light on the intricate ways in which the senses, cognition, and the body were engaged in devotional practices, emphasizing the multisensory nature of medieval spirituality.
🔗 To attend online: registration link in comments.

Conferenza "IL CORPO, LA MALATTIA, LA CONOSCENZA DI DIO NELLA CULTURA FEMMINILE MEDIEVALE (SEC. XIII-XV)"

Relatrice: Alessandra BARTOLOMEI ROMAGNOLI (Pontificia Università Gregoriana)

> martedì 23 aprile 2023, alle ore 16:15 presso Aula Diano di Palazzo Liviano, Piazza Capitaniato 7, Padova
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Evento organizzato da Silvia Carraro e Zuleika Murat ([email protected] | [email protected])

Sponsored by the ERC-StG Project “The Sensuous Appeal of the Holy. Sensory Agency of Sacred Art and Somatised Spiritual Experiences in Medieval Europe (12th-15th century)” - SenSArt, P.I. Zuleika Murat. This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No 950248); and the FARE project “Sensory Impairment and Disability in Medieval Europe: Inclusive Approaches for Studying the Experience of Art” - SIDME, P.I. Zuleika Murat.


Università degli Studi di Padova ERC Sensart - The Sensuous Appeal of the Holy Scuola di Specializzazione in Beni storico-artistici, Università di Padova

CFP! SenSArt second international conference of the series ‘Experiencing the Sacred’, entitled 'The Senses, Cognition, and the Body in Medieval Devotional Practices', is in the pipeline! The conference will be held in Padua, on June 5-6, 2024.
The call for papers is now until November 30, 2023. Do not miss the deadline, we are looking forward to receiving your proposals!

https://sensartproject.eu/conference-on-the-senses-cognition-and-the-body-in-medieval-devotional-practices/

ERC Sensart - The Sensuous Appeal of the Holy
Dipartimento dei Beni Culturali - Università degli Studi di Padova

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CONFERENCE & FIELDWORK! This week, our PI @zuleikamurat participated in the international conference "(ER-)LEBEN VON SPIRITUALITÄT. Die fünf Sinne in religiösen Gemeinschaften des Mittelalters" (14-16 June 2023, Heidelberg Akademie der Wissenschaften), presenting the paper "Knowing by touching, Touching for Knowing. Haptic Experiences of Objects in the Spiritual Practices of Medieval Religious Communities", while the team members Valentina @valebiblabla & Vittorio were in Paris doing field work at the Musée de Cluny, BNF, and Musée du Louvre, in preparation for the International Medieval Congress 2023. In Leeds, the SenSArt team will be engaged in 4 sessions on July 5th. Stay tuned for more info, photos and updates! 📍Heidelberg panoramas & the Akademie der Wissenschaften 📸 The conference programme 📸 Kurpfälzisches Museum highlights 📸 Deutsche Apotheken-Museum (in Schloss Heidelberg) 📍Paris, Musée de Cluny and Bibliothèque Nationale de France 📍Musée du Louvre 📸 A prayer nut, a detail of “La Vierge à l’Enfant à l’écritoire”, and a 12th-century Vierge à l’Enfant from Auvergne… a taste of some of our amazing case studies! #erc_sensart #thefivesenses #middleages #medievalart #medievalreligion #medievaldevotion #paris #heidelberg

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CONFERENCE! The conference season has officially begun! Last week SenSArt was in the beautiful location of Monte Verità (Switzerland), where our team member Micol Long @micol_long participated in the international workshop “The Senses: Present Issues, Past Perspectives” (23-26 April 2023), aimed at bringing medieval sensory studies in conversation with sensory research in contemporary science and philosophy. In panel 7 “Proprioception and Kinesthesia”, Micol presented the paper “Conceptualizing Kinesthesia as a Sense: Its Significance for Religious Experience in 12th-13th-Century Cloisters”. 🛫 SenSArt will hit the road again this upcoming week and the following week to participate in new and exciting events! Stay tuned for more info and updates! #erc_sensart #sensorystudies #monteveritàascona

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CONFERENCE! Today SenSArt is in Bamberg, where our team member Davide Tramarin @davide_tramarin is participating in the NetMAR Conference "Rituals of Gender Staging and Performance in the Middle Ages" (University of Bamberg, 3-4 May 2023), with the paper “Nuns’ Bodily and Sensory Experiences. The Rituals of the Holy Week in Lichtenthal, Between Shared Performance and Individual Meditative Practices”. #erc_sensart #NetMAR #bamberg

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The 1st SenSArt CONFERENCE! In September 2022 the 1st SenSArt conference “The Role of the Senses in Medieval Liturgies and Rituals” was held in Padua (University of Padua, 21-23 September 2022) and organized by Zuleika Murat @zuleikamurat, Sara Carreño @sara.gorse and Valentina Baradel @valebiblabla Many thanks to all those who made it possible and to those who participated! 📸 The participants 📸 The full programme of the event #erc_sensart #universityofpadua #dbcunipd

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The 1st SenSArt CONFERENCE! In September 2022 the 1st SenSArt conference “The Role of the Senses in Medieval Liturgies and Rituals” was held in Padua (University of Padua, 21-23 September 2022) and organized by Zuleika Murat @zuleikamurat, Sara Carreño @sara.gorse and Valentina Baradel @valebiblabla The aim of the conference was to explore medieval liturgies and rituals (broadly intended), through the lens of sensoria (i.e. the diverse sensory systems that existed in the Middle Ages) and the perception of the faithful (understood both as an individual and as social groups), in order to show that the experience of the sacred was not homogeneous and static. On the contrary, it was a multimodal and multisensorial activity, which was perceived in different ways by the diverse groups and individuals involved. The meeting brought together a multi- and interdisciplinary group of scholars (art historians, historians, musicologists and liturgists) from all around the world. Many thanks to all those who made it possible and to those who participated! 📸 Zuleika Murat, Children in Medieval Christianity: Embodiment and the Senses in Liturgies, Rituals, and Prayers 📸 Sara Carreño, Bodily Interactions and Sensorial Engagement in the Performative Rites of Late-Medieval Santiago de Compostela 📸 Micol Long, Performances of Contrition and Compassion? An Inquiry Into the Development of a Medieval Ritual of Confession in the 13th Century 📸 Francesc Massip and Alba Knijff Massip, With the Five Senses: Spectacular Devices for Engaging the Audience in the Middle Ages 📸 Martina Bordone, Through Body or Eyes: Experiencing Devotional Books in Late Medieval Italy 📸 Ariana Sider, Materiality, Sensory Experience, and Community in Late-Medieval Tournaisien Wills 📸 The organizers, at the end of three amazing days! #erc_sensart #universityofpadova #dbcunipd #middleages #medievalart ##medievalhistory #medievalreligion #thefivesenses

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Save the date! 👇👇👇👇
Third seminar of the cycle "SenSArt Seminars on Medieval Art, Religion and Culture" is going to take place next week!

Justin Kroesen (Universitetet i Bergen/Universitat de Girona - Templa Team), will give a paper on "The Visual, the Kinetic, and the Performative in the Development of Altarpieces Between the Twelfth and Fifteenth Centuries".
Gerardo Boto Varela (Universitat de Girona - Templa Team), will talk on "Una commemorazione sensibile. Integrazione di altare, sepolcro e pala d’altare nella Castiglia alfonsina"

Seminar organized by Sara Carreño and Zuleika Murat

Padua, Palazzo Liviano, Sala Sartori
24 February 2023 | 16.30 CET

Third Seminar of the cycle “SenSArt Seminars on Medieval Art, Religion and Culture” The third seminar of the cycle "SenSArt Seminars on Medieval Art, Religion and Culture" will feature specialists' presentations on the medieval altar and its environment, approaching the subject both from a more wide perspective that draws a comparative analysis of different European regions, to a m...

Zuleika Murat's article on Pacino di Bonaguida’s manuscript (New York, Pierpont Morgan Libray & Museum, M.643) has been published!

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Zuleika Murat’s article on Pacino di Bonaguida’s manuscript (M.643) has been published! The purpose of this article is to investigate the mental and spiritual process of interiorization of the Passion imagery, the mechanism that permitted the transition from a material representation, experienced with the senses, to a mental image, impressed into the memory, then evoked and relived in....