RAVE: Carly Boxer

Workshop

11 November 2020 4.45pm - 11 November 2020 6.15pm

Zoom

Add to Calendar 2020-11-11 16:45:00 2020-11-11 18:15:00 RAVE: Carly Boxer “Repetition: Practice and Perception as Late Medieval Approaches to Health” Carly Boxer is a PhD candidate in the Department of Art History at UChicago. Her research spans the Middle Ages, focusing on the visual culture of knowledge formation and communication in fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth-century England. She is currently finalizing her dissertation, “It owiþ to be lokid: The Visual Culture of English Medicine, 1348 – 1500,” which uses images in manuscripts made in England in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries to analyze ideas about observation and first-hand experience articulated in medieval medical theory and practice. She is broadly interested in ways in which medieval images reflected or anticipated period theories of vision and image-making. Carly received a BA in Art History from Tufts University. Tamara Golan is an Assistant Professor of Art History and the College of medieval and early modern art from northern Europe. She specializes in the visual and material culture of Switzerland and southern Germany, and her interests range from the intersections of art, science, and the law; paradigms of expertise; artistic fraud and deception; and questions of materiality. She is currently at work on her first book, which investigates the role played by legal definitions of evidence in the development of pictorial naturalism in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Swiss art. This project explores how artists from this region addressed the growing desire to test and verify the sacred through forensic examination of the natural world, charting the increasingly vexed relationship between human artifice and its evidentiary status on the eve of the Reformation. Viewed broadly, her account provides an alternative history of naturalistic painting, showing how questions of representation could be determined by legal considerations. Her other research projects include studies of the relationship between juridical discourse on the body and the political lives of reliquaries; the fraught legacy of late medieval artists in East Germany; the impact of confessional reform on altarpiece production; and Swiss mercenary artists. Golan received her PhD from Johns Hopkins University and her MA from Tufts University. She has previously held fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, and the Max-Planck Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florence. Register here to receive the Zoom link. Zoom Department of Art History drupal@seastar.uchicago.edu America/Chicago public

De arte phisicali de cirurgia and Practica de fistula in ano

“Repetition: Practice and Perception as Late Medieval Approaches to Health”

Carly Boxer is a PhD candidate in the Department of Art History at UChicago. Her research spans the Middle Ages, focusing on the visual culture of knowledge formation and communication in fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth-century England. She is currently finalizing her dissertation, “It owiþ to be lokid: The Visual Culture of English Medicine, 1348 – 1500,” which uses images in manuscripts made in England in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries to analyze ideas about observation and first-hand experience articulated in medieval medical theory and practice. She is broadly interested in ways in which medieval images reflected or anticipated period theories of vision and image-making. Carly received a BA in Art History from Tufts University.

Tamara Golan is an Assistant Professor of Art History and the College of medieval and early modern art from northern Europe. She specializes in the visual and material culture of Switzerland and southern Germany, and her interests range from the intersections of art, science, and the law; paradigms of expertise; artistic fraud and deception; and questions of materiality.

She is currently at work on her first book, which investigates the role played by legal definitions of evidence in the development of pictorial naturalism in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Swiss art. This project explores how artists from this region addressed the growing desire to test and verify the sacred through forensic examination of the natural world, charting the increasingly vexed relationship between human artifice and its evidentiary status on the eve of the Reformation. Viewed broadly, her account provides an alternative history of naturalistic painting, showing how questions of representation could be determined by legal considerations. Her other research projects include studies of the relationship between juridical discourse on the body and the political lives of reliquaries; the fraught legacy of late medieval artists in East Germany; the impact of confessional reform on altarpiece production; and Swiss mercenary artists.

Golan received her PhD from Johns Hopkins University and her MA from Tufts University. She has previously held fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, and the Max-Planck Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florence.