Date: Tuesday 21 May 2024
Time: 18:30
Venue: Aula Prima, University of Malta, Valletta Campus
This volume of essays came about after two conferences titled ‘Dynamics of Mediterranean Artistic Interactions in the Late Medieval and Renaissance periods’ held on 9 March 2018 and 10 April 2019 and organised by the at the University of Malta and convened by .
The subject of each paper is new and insofar unpublished research that reflects on the presence of artistic exchange that occurred in the Late Middle Ages and the Renaissance across the Mediterranean, particularly related to southern European territories that border the Mediterranean Sea, from Spain to Cyprus.
The artistic exchange in the Mediterranean is about connecting different cultures and understanding how each culture impacted on others, even those across the Mediterranean, and which shows that such exchange transcends boundaries.
It is the Mediterranean Sea that is a common denominator in these papers and the migration of people and ideas unites these papers’ contents.
What connects these authors is, therefore, a mutual interest in a wider topic of research in which they have crossed paths, in conferences at the University of Malta or elsewhere.
The broader Central Mediterranean is the focus of several papers, including Sicily and Venice. Malta also features in a paper related to the Knights of the Order of St John in Rhodes, while other papers focus on Cyprus and the Iberian Peninsula, and artistic exchange that occurred with these territories from across the Mediterranean.
The individual essays are authored by Alessandra Migliorato, Anthi Andronikou, Borja Franco and Miquel Àngel Herrero-Cortell, Dr Charlene Vella, Donal Cooper, Georgios Markou, Kayoko Ichikawa, , Mario Buhagiar, Martina Caruana, Michele Bacci and Paola Vitolo.
