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From Late Antiquity to ca. 1500, the exchange of artistic expressions, literary formulas and moral ideals allowed successive bishops to generate and transform the paradigmatic buildings and devices epitomising episcopal power, both in life and posthumously by dictating the manner in which they were to be com-memorated. Indispensable to this process of integration was the ability to absorb foreign artistic formulas, devise innovative creations and integrate them into mutated patterns that were always defined by local material and intellectual conditions and resources.
This volume explores the making and metamorphosis of images and memories of European Medieval Bishops as individual personalities or institutional figures within the framework of their respective cathedrals. The studies discuss the circumstances and factors that have determined funerary configurations and ritual remembrances of bishops in cathedrals and ecclesiastical colleges in the Medieval Latin Church. The authors of this volume adopt and implement a dual and complementary methodology. First, they take into account a wide range of factors, including specific community practices, liturgical ceremonies, church furnishings, and artistic equipment. Second, they explore to which the morphology of individual tombs can be ascribed to the preferences of patrons who, hypothetically, would also have imposed a religious protocol as the patrons of the future commemoration of their personalities.
In these novel studies, special attention is paid to the symbiosis of pictorial narratives, liturgical performativity, and spatial arrangement, which made up and propitiated a large part of the visual experience of episcopal memorials. The volume focuses on the use of the memorial devices of important bishops as a privileged lens to analyse the complexity and dynamics of the artistic landscape in western Europe during the Middle Ages.
List of contents
Letrán, el Vaticano y los apóstoles en la Visio Taionis. Notas sobre la construcción de una memoria hispánica de Gregorio Magno (Joel Varela Rodríguez) - Les évêques de Lausanne et la cathédrale Notre-Dame. De la mémoire individuelle à la mémoire institutionelle (Kérim Berclaz) - Between Commemoration and Cult: Creating and Recreating Episcopal Memory at Cologne Cathedral (Adam R. Stead) - Constructing Episcopal Authority through Hagiography and Ritual in the Saint Honoré portal at Amiens Cathedral (Lindsey Hansen) - La cattedrale di Parma e la memoria del vescovo Bernardo degli Uberti: luoghi, liturgia e culto santorale (sec. XII-XVI) (Carlotta Taddei / Fabrizio Tonelli) - El claustro de la catedral de León: un espacio entre la memoria individual y colectiva a través de los sepulcros y testamentos canonicales a mediados del siglo XIII (Pablo Ordás Díaz) - The altar de Santa Elena or Capilla de Pedro de Mendoza in the Cathedral of Toledo: the Artistic Work and its Liturgical and Spatial Dimension (Maria Dolores Teijeira Pablos) - Identidad y memoria en los pontificales iluminados en Castilla durante la Edad Media (Mercedes López-Mayán) - El cardenal Gil de Albornoz (1302-1367), siete siglos construyendo memoria (Manuel Parada López de Corselas ) - Memoria de Diego de Anaya y Maldonado ( 1437). Ilustración, crítica y devoción (María Concepción Cosmen Alonso) - Catedral y colegio, magnificencia y memoria en la promoción artística de fray Alonso de Burgos (Diana Olivares Martínez)
About the author
Gerardo Boto is professor in Medieval Art and Architecture at the University of Girona (Spain), leader of the international research team TEMPLA, and scientific editor of the journal Codex Aquilarensis. Revista de Arte Medieval.
Isabel Escandell is tenured professor of Medieval Art at the Universitat de les Illes Balears (Spain). Esther Lozano is associated professor in Art History at the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia and ENTI School-Universitat de Barcelona (Spain).
