Author Archives: Textures

Lecture: Thomas Rainer: Baselitz avant la Lettre: Orthography turned upside down in an Einsiedeln manuscript of the 10th century (Basel, 12.06.2024)

Primary Source Workshop Breaking Visual Traditions in Pre-Modernity, organized by Masha Goldin, June 12, 2024, University of Basel, eikones. Center for the Theory und History of the Image. For more

Thomas Rainer: Farbstoffe, Pigmente und Metalltuschen: Die Farbigkeit des Goldenen Psalters im Licht materialanalytischer Untersuchungen.

In: Der Goldene Psalter von St. Gallen, Cod. Sang. 22, St. Gallen Stiftsbibliothek. Kommentar zur Faksimile-Edition, ed. by David Ganz. Luzern 2024, 149–157.

Lecture: Thomas Rainer: Under Purple Skies. Dyes and Skies in Ottonian Manuscripts (Paris, 24.05.2024)

Colloque international La Couleur : matière, technique, perception. 23 et 24 Mai 2024, Paris, Institut national d’histoire de l’art et Bibliothèque nationale de France. For more

Conf: Superficies–Surfaces, Skins and Textures. Sensory Encounters with Books and Related Multi-layered Objects, Zurich 18.01. – 20.01.2024

The research group “Textures of Sacred Scripture. Materials and Semantics of Sacred Book Ornament” and the Chair of Medieval Art History at the University of Zurich are organizing an international conference on “Superficies – Surfaces, Skins, and Textures. Sensory encounters with books and related multi-layered objects”. For the program and to participate online…

Lecture: Thomas Rainer: The Gender of Purple Manuscripts and the Makeup of Sacred Scriptures (San Antonio, Texas, 20.11.2023)

SCRIPT session Gender and Sacred Text(ure)s at the annual AAR/SBL conference, November 18-21, San Antonio, Texas, organized by Marianne Schleicher and James Watts. For more

Lecture: Thomas Rainer: Imagining Religious Identity and Difference through Book Formats: Scrolls and Codices in Judaism and Christianity. (Philadelphia, 18.11.2023)

Conference: The Image of the Book. Representing the Codex from Antiquity to the Present. 16th Annual Lawrence J. Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age. November 16-18, Kislak Center Penn Libraries and Rare Book Department of the Free Library of Philadelphia. For more

Workshop: Take Care! Conservation and Repair in the Middle Ages, Zurich 09.11. – 11.11.2023

The Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) funded research project “Textures of Sacred Scripture. Materials and Semantics of Sacred Book Ornament in the Western Middle Ages, 780-1300” at the Chair of Medieval Art History of the University of Zurich invites to a three-day workshop on conservation, repair, and care of art in the Middle Ages. TheContinue reading “Workshop: Take Care! Conservation and Repair in the Middle Ages, Zurich 09.11. – 11.11.2023”