Living Matter: Materiality, Maker, and Ornament in the Middle Ages

Petrified Beholders: The Interactive Materiality of Baldassarre Peruzzi’s Perseus and Medusa

“…12 (Latour 2005;Law and Hassard 1999). See also (Ingold 2007;Weinryb 2013). 13 (Campbell andCole 2012), pp.…”

Elements of Uncertainty: Visualizing the ‘Spheres’ of Water and Earth in the Late Middle Ages

“…As Ittai Weinryb has pointed out, the challenge of giving form to formlessness evidently caused the artist to opt for "a textual substitution rather than a representational attempt." [37] However, the inscribed miniature is not devoid of visual dimensionality. Not at all throwing in the towel on the task of representing the unrepresentable, the artist has attempted much in this little miniature, visualizing the emergence of form from primordial chaos through crisp white lettering upon a hazy marbled surface.…”

A silver cross-reliquary and its patroness in twelfth-century rural Asturias

“…As Kessler remarks in his seminal contribution to the study of silver's materiality, Bede the Venerable or St Gregory the Great commented on the agency of the metal, with the Roman Pontiff mentioning in his Moralia in Job that "Sacred speech is mostly compared to silver [...] because they (the objects) shine with the splendour of the virtues of the Father ...". 38 By the time the Fuentes Cross was perhaps being made, the French monk and author Thomas of Perseigne, also quoted by Kessler, related the duality gold/silver to Christ's dual nature, further explaining that refining silver established a par-34 Kessler 2011;Walker-Bynum 2011;Kumler and Lakey 2012;Weinryb 2013Weinryb , 2016Weinryb , 2018 35 Raddatz 1969;Domergue 1990;Blázquez 1996. 36 Santos Yanguas andCartes Hernández 2002-2003.…”