Medieval Art is the on-going website version from an initial facebook page maintained by Begoña Cayuela, Roser Piñol and Pere-Joan Nogueroles.
The purpose of Medieval Art is to collect and disseminate web resources and news such as conferences, exhibitions, publications, etc. devoted to medieval culture in general and medieval art in particular.
In order to promote the knowledge of Medieval art we collect photos of monuments and works of art. A searchable map will be created with all the photographs in order to show the data in a geographical display.
Furthermore, this website will provide resources and bibliographical mentions, the Library relevant to Medieval Art subjects displayed in a way easy to permit searches, queries and views.
The final step of this web project aims to build a collaborative database of Medieval Heritage at Risk, identifiying those medieval artifacts, monuments, buildings and sites in danger of being destroyed, injured or allowed to fall into decay or oblivion. The data stored in a database feed a dynamic map to plot and visualise those medieval sites at risk of preservation.
Aerial view of the catalan monastery of Sant Pere de Rodes.
Today we have chosen a photo taken in San Marco, Venice. Above the entrance of S. Alipio remains the XIIIth century mosaics representing the translation of the corpse of Saint Marc.
Antechoir of St. George of Reichenau (Germany). Dated in 1308. "The moralizing depiction castigates the talkativeness of women, whose 'babbling is just incredible' (Mt. 12:36-37). A devil writes the corresponding six-liner on a cowhide in majuscule letters in the language of the early 14th century: ICH WIL HIE SHRIB/VN VON DISEN/ TVMBEN WIBVN / WAS HIE WIRT / PLAPLA GVSPR/OCHVN VPPIGGES/ IN DER WOCHVN/ DAS WIRT ALL/ VS WOL GVRAHT/ SO ES W/IRT FVR DEN/ RIHTVR BRATH (I want to write here About these silly women What is spoke bla bla here A great deal during the week It's probably all right righteous If it's brought before the judge)". See: JOHN, Timo. The Monastery Island of Reichenau in Lake Constance. Freiburg i. Br., 2006, p.63.
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