CONCEPT & THEME LINES

The Conference The Traces of the Colorful Souls: Visual & Material Arts in the Chromatic Middle Ages aspires to become a meeting point and a forum for reflection on medieval colors and their importance in the life of the time (Art History, Aesthetics, Technology, Sensory Studies, Philosophy, Restoration, Artistic Technology, Linguistics, Psychology, Optics, etc.) trying to promote a more complete vision of the colorful souls of the Middle Ages. For this reason, a series of thematic lines are proposed around which different conferences and free communication sessions will revolve, all having as their central concept color in the Middle Ages:

• The artistic and documentary dimension of medieval colors, traceable through documentary sources, treatises, artist's books, as well as evidence of chromatic uses in the diversity of the arts.
• The material dimension of medieval colors, evoked through the study of pigments, materials, dyes, and chromatic elements that served to give color to different artifacts and works.
• The technical dimension of medieval colors, materialized in the plurality of uses in numerous artistic media and supports, such as illuminated manuscripts, polychrome in stone, wood, panel, or canvas, as well as the study of color in the diversity of the sumptuary arts, such as stained glass, enamels, ceramics, mosaics or textiles.
• The symbolic dimension of medieval colors, reflected in the social and extra-semantic uses and values ​​conferred on the chromaticism of spaces, clothes, and objects for daily or festive use, both in the sacred space and in every day or court environment.

  CONTRIBUTIONS

The paper's proposals are sent by participants to the Organized Committee before February 1st 2022 in English, French, Italian or Spanish, through an online form. The Conference will take place presencially in Madrid (Spain) and the communicators must be able to manage their own journey to the event place during this.

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