ERC Sensart - The Sensuous Appeal of the Holy

27/05/2025

Seminario SenSArt "La materialità e i suoi significati nel Medioevo: il cristallo di rocca"

Interventi:
📍 “Antinomie: il cristallo di rocca nell'arte medievale”, di Stefania Gerevini, Università Bocconi Milano
📍 “Sentire la Generazione Eterna. Il cristallo di rocca nella Visitazione del Metropolitan Museum di New York”, di Davide Tramarin, Università di Padova

⏰ Mercoledì 28 maggio 2025, alle ore 17:00 presso Sala Sartori di Palazzo Liviano, Piazza Capitaniato 7, Padova

👉 Per partecipare online scrivere a: [email protected]

Il seminario conclude il Ciclo “Seminars on Medieval Art, Religion, and Culture“ organizzato nell'ambito del progetto ERC-Starting Grant 2020 SenSArt - The Sensuous Appeal of the Holy. Sensory Agency of Sacred Art and Somatised Spiritual Experiences in Medieval Europe (12th-15th century), PI Zuleika Murat, grant agreement number 950248.

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Università degli Studi di Padova International Research Office - Università degli Studi di Padova ERC Sensart - The Sensuous Appeal of the Holy Scuola di Specializzazione in Beni storico-artistici, Università di Padova

20/05/2024

📣 The PROGRAMME for SenSArt's second international conference, “The Senses, Cognition, and the Body in Medieval Devotional Practices,” is now AVAILABLE!
The conference, organized by Zuleika Murat, Pieter Boonstra, Micol Long, and Davide Tramarin, will be held in Padua from June 5-7, 2024, and promises to be an exciting event. 😉
This interdisciplinary conference, integrating sensory studies, material culture studies, cognitive studies, and historical research, provides a rich platform for understanding the profound changes in religion during the medieval period. By exploring somatized spiritual experiences, the conference aims to shed new light on the intricate ways in which the senses, cognition, and the body were engaged in devotional practices, emphasizing the multisensory nature of medieval spirituality.
🔗 To attend online: registration link in comments.

18/04/2024

Conferenza "IL CORPO, LA MALATTIA, LA CONOSCENZA DI DIO NELLA CULTURA FEMMINILE MEDIEVALE (SEC. XIII-XV)"

Relatrice: Alessandra BARTOLOMEI ROMAGNOLI (Pontificia Università Gregoriana)

> martedì 23 aprile 2023, alle ore 16:15 presso Aula Diano di Palazzo Liviano, Piazza Capitaniato 7, Padova
> https://www.beniculturali.unipd.it/www/dbc-news/conferenza-il-corpo-la-malattia-la-conoscenza-di-dio-nella-cultura-femminile-medievale-sec-xiii-xv-23-aprile-2024-aula-diano-palazzo-liviano/

Evento organizzato da Silvia Carraro e Zuleika Murat ([email protected] | [email protected])

Sponsored by the ERC-StG Project “The Sensuous Appeal of the Holy. Sensory Agency of Sacred Art and Somatised Spiritual Experiences in Medieval Europe (12th-15th century)” - SenSArt, P.I. Zuleika Murat. This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No 950248); and the FARE project “Sensory Impairment and Disability in Medieval Europe: Inclusive Approaches for Studying the Experience of Art” - SIDME, P.I. Zuleika Murat.


Università degli Studi di Padova ERC Sensart - The Sensuous Appeal of the Holy Scuola di Specializzazione in Beni storico-artistici, Università di Padova

07/11/2023

CFP! SenSArt second international conference of the series ‘Experiencing the Sacred’, entitled 'The Senses, Cognition, and the Body in Medieval Devotional Practices', is in the pipeline! The conference will be held in Padua, on June 5-6, 2024.
The call for papers is now until November 30, 2023. Do not miss the deadline, we are looking forward to receiving your proposals!

https://sensartproject.eu/conference-on-the-senses-cognition-and-the-body-in-medieval-devotional-practices/

ERC Sensart - The Sensuous Appeal of the Holy
Dipartimento dei Beni Culturali - Università degli Studi di Padova

18/06/2023

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14/02/2023

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Save the date! 👇👇👇👇
Third seminar of the cycle "SenSArt Seminars on Medieval Art, Religion and Culture" is going to take place next week!

Justin Kroesen (Universitetet i Bergen/Universitat de Girona - Templa Team), will give a paper on "The Visual, the Kinetic, and the Performative in the Development of Altarpieces Between the Twelfth and Fifteenth Centuries".
Gerardo Boto Varela (Universitat de Girona - Templa Team), will talk on "Una commemorazione sensibile. Integrazione di altare, sepolcro e pala d’altare nella Castiglia alfonsina"

Seminar organized by Sara Carreño and Zuleika Murat

Padua, Palazzo Liviano, Sala Sartori
24 February 2023 | 16.30 CET

The third seminar of the cycle "SenSArt Seminars on Medieval Art, Religion and Culture" will feature specialists' presentations on the medieval altar and its environment, approaching the subject both from a more wide perspective that draws a comparative analysis of different European regions, to a m...

18/01/2023

Zuleika Murat's article on Pacino di Bonaguida’s manuscript (New York, Pierpont Morgan Libray & Museum, M.643) has been published!

See the news on ERC SenSArt project webpage!
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The purpose of this article is to investigate the mental and spiritual process of interiorization of the Passion imagery, the mechanism that permitted the transition from a material representation, experienced with the senses, to a mental image, impressed into the memory, then evoked and relived in....