PROGRAM
16 APRIL, 2015
14.00-14.40
Welcome
Marek Walczak & Mateusz Grzęda
1. PORTRAYING THE SOVEREIGN IN THE 13TH AND 14TH CENTURIES
14.40-15.05
Pierre-Yves Le Pogam (Paris)
The features of St Louis
15.05-15.30
Katharina Weiger (Florence)
The portraits of Robert of Anjou: self-presentation as political
instrument?
15.30-15.55
Mateusz Grzęda (Cracow)
Representing the Archbishop of Trier: Portraits of Kuno von Falkenstein
15.55-16.20 DISCUSSION
16.20-16.45 COFFEE BREAK
2. PORTRAITURE AND MEMORIA IN THE LATE MIDDLE AGES
16.45-17.10
Javier Martínez de Aguirre (Madrid)
Pride and Memory: the Development of Individualised Sculptural
Representations in Castile and Navarre around 1400
17.10-17.35
Jakov Đorđević (Belgrade)
Made in the Skull's Likeness: Of Transi Tombs, Identity and Memento Mori
17.35-18.00
Marek Walczak (Cracow) & Krzysztof Czyżewski (Cracow)
Picturing Continuity. The Beginnings of the Portrait Gallery of Cracow
Bishops in the Cloister of Franciscan Friars in Cracow
18.00-18.25 DISCUSSION
17 APRIL, 2015
4. AMBIGUITIES OF LATE MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE PORTRAITURE
9.30-9.55
Alexander Lee (Oxford)
Petrarch, Simone Martini and the Ambiguities of Fourteenth-Century
Portraiture
9.55-10.20
Alice Cavinato (Pisa)
"By his own hand and of his own will". Portraits of scribes and writers
as visual signatures
10.20-10.45
Philipp Zitzlsperger (Berlin)
Renaissance Self-portraits and the moral judgement of taste
10.45-11.10 DISCUSSION
11.10-11.30 COFFEE BREAK
5. PORTRAITURE AT THE THRESHOLD OF THE EARLY MODERN PERIOD
11.30-11.55
Agnieszka Smołucha-Sładkowska (Cracow)
What is, and What is not all'antica in Portraits on Early-Renaissance
Italian Portrait Medals
11.55-12.20
Albert J. Godycki (London)
What did Jan van Scorel do for Netherlandish Portraiture? Some
Considerations on his Impact
12.20-12.45
Annick Born (Ghent)
Portraying the Sultan
12.45-13.10
Anna Wyszyńska (Cracow)
Power-dressing of the Chancellor's Family. On Depictions of Dress in
„Liber geneseos illustris familiae Schidlovicie"
13.10-13.35 DISCUSSION
13.35-16.30 LUNCH
6. RECONSIDERING THE ORIGINS OF CRYPTO-PORTRAITURE
16.30-16.55
Annamaria Ersek (Paris)
The Crypto-portrait and its Place in the Emergence of Portraiture
16.55-17.20
Ilaria Bernocchi (London)
The Origins of Allegorical Portraits. A ‘Defeat of Likeness'?
17.20-17.45
Masza Sitek (Cracow)
Just what is it that makes identification-portrait hypotheses so
appealing? On why Hans Süss von Kulmbach ‘must' have portrayed Jan Boner
17.45-18.10 DISCUSSION
18 APRIL, 2015
7. APPROACHES TO EARLY PORTRAITURE
9.30-9.55
Mary Hogan Camp (London)
"Weaving a Tangled Web": The use and interpretations of the banderole in
Pontormo's ‘Portrait of Cosimo il Vecchio'
9.55-10.20
Nathalie Delbard (Lille)
The divergent look in the Flemish portrait as a sign of dysfunction of
the traditional conception of representation in the Renaissance
10.20-10.45
Charlotta Krispinsson (Stockholm)
The Concept of Iconography in Portrait Research prior to Panofsky
10.45-11.20 DISCUSSION
11.20 END OF CONFERENCE
Reference:
CONF: Reconsidering the Origins of Portraiture (Cracow, 16-18 Apr 15). In: ArtHist.net, Mar 10, 2015 (accessed May 5, 2026), <https://arthist.net/archive/9664>.