Art Binds Communities in Medieval Europe

Gianluca del Monaco; Fabio Massaccesi; Maddalena Vaccaro

doi:10.6092/issn.2240-7251/21337

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Gianluca del Monaco Università di Bologna

Gianluca del Monaco has been employed as a Senior assistant professor (fixed-term) in the field of History of Medieval Art (ARTE-01/A) at the Department of the Arts (DAR) of the University of Bologna since 9 September 2022. He teaches in his own scientific-disciplinary sector on the bachelor's degree programme, the master's degree programme, the initial training course for the secondary school in Art and Image (A001) and the School of Specialisation in Historical-Artistic Heritage. She oversees the local research unit of the PRIN 2022 PNRR, entitled 'Animals and Plants in North Italian Sculpture, Painting and Manuscript Illumination between the 14th and 17th Centuries: Case Studies and a Database'. Following the conferral of his PhD in Art History from the University of Bologna in 2012, he was a fellow at the Roberto Longhi Foundation in Florence from 2012 to 2013 and a research fellow at the Department of the Arts, University of Bologna from 2015 to 2018. Additionally, he was the recipient of a Getty/ACLS Postdoctoral Fellowship in the History of Art from 2018 to 2019. He has previously held teaching positions at the university level, primarily in the areas of History of Medieval Art (L-ART/01) and History of Art Criticism (L-ART/04) at the Universities of Bologna and Udine. His research interests encompass painting and illumination in Bologna and Emilia during the Romanesque and Gothic periods, as well as the decoration of legal manuscripts in the Italian area from the twelfth century onwards. He is a founding member of the international research group 'IUS ILLUMINATUM' and a member of CUNSTA and the International Society for the History of Book Illumination. He serves on the editorial board of the open access scientific journal Intrecci d'Arte. He has delivered talks at a number of international conferences, including the Annual Saint Louis Conference on Manuscript Studies, the International Medieval Congress in Leeds, the International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, and the Medieval Europe in Motion conference in Lisbon. Additionally, he has contributed to a number of scholarly journals, including Arte a Bologna, Arte Cristiana, Clio@Themis, Convivium, Paragone, Predella, Rivista di Storia della Miniatura, and Storia della Critica d'Arte. He has also published two monographs: Simone di Filippo detto 'dei Crocifissi'. Pittura e devozione nel secondo Trecento bolognese (Padova: Il Poligrafo, 2018); L'Illustratore e la miniatura nei manoscritti universitari bolognesi del Trecento (Bologna: Bononia University Press, 2018). Together with Maria Alessandra Bilotta, he edited a special issue of the open access scientific journal Eikón/Imago (2023), entitled Imago, ius, religio. Religious Images in Illustrated Legal Manuscripts and Printed Books (9th-20th Centuries).
Fabio Massaccesi Università di Bologna

Fabio Massaccesi is an Associate Professor in Medieval Art History. His research activities are focused on the study of patronage, miniature, monumental painting and architectural contexts, as well as iconography from the 12^thto the 15^thcentury. In addition to this, he has also undertaken studies in art criticism, with a particular focus on the figure of Francesco Arcangeli. His research interests lie in the study of spaces and the reconstruction of medieval settings, which led him to organise the 2019 conference Spazi del sacro nell’Italia Medievale. He is responsible for the research unit of the national PRIN project DAISI. Anastilosi digitale e interpretazione interattiva degli Spazi: nuove metodologie per la storia dell’arte. He is the editor of the Department's journal, Open Access, Intrecci d'arte, and has presented at numerous national and international conferences as both organiser and speaker.His research focuses on miniatures, leading him to establish the Research Group on the study of illuminated Breviaries in Italy, and his involvement extends to the 'IUS ILLUMINATUM' Research Group. He is a member of CUNSTA and the Società Internazionale di Storia della Miniatura, and has recently published the book Un 'Breviario' giovanile di Nicolò di Giacomo tra Bologna e Firenze (2023). He was recently co-curator of the exhibition Lippo di Dalmasio e le arti a Bologna tra Trecento e Quattrocento (2023). In 2024, he curated the exhibition Nicolò di Giacomo: i colori della preghiera. Tra arte, prassi liturgica, devozione personale e committenza. He edited with Zuleika Murat the special monographic issue of the periodical Quaderni di storia religiosa medievale, 'Strumenti di devozione nelle pratiche religiose del medioevo'.
Maddalena Vaccaro Università degli Studi di Salerno

Maddalena Vaccaro is an Associate Professor of Medieval Art History at the University of Salerno, within the DiSPaC – Department of Cultural Heritage Sciences, where she teaches “Medieval Art History” and “Art and Book Illumination in Medieval Europe”. She is a member of the faculty board of the PhD program in “Methods and Methodologies of Archaeological and Historical-Artistic Research” at DiSPaC and of the Inter-University Specialization School in Archaeological Heritage Or.Sa., jointly run by the Universities of Salerno and Naples "L’Orientale." She is the Team Leader for the Salerno unit in the PRIN 2022 project “MediArSI – Interlacing Medieval Art in Southern Italy from the Normans to the Hohenstaufen (11th-13th century)” and in the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Doctoral Network project “StoryPharm – Storytelling as Pharmakon in Premodernity and Beyond” (2024–2028, Grant Agreement 10116911). Her research focuses on medieval art and architecture, with particular attention to floor mosaics, sculpture, and liturgical arrangements in Southern and Northern Italy, as well as in France (Loiret). She adopts an interdisciplinary approach that integrates art, history, primary sources, liturgical texts, cultural contexts, and archaeology. Her main publications include two monographs: “«Pavia, città ragguardevole» Mosaici pavimentali e cultura figurativa nel XII secolo” (SAP, 2016) and “Palinsesto e paradigma. La metamorfosi monumentale nella Salerno di Roberto il Guiscardo” (Edizioni ETS, 2018). She edited the volume “Il Breviario-Messale di Salerno del Museo Leone di Vercelli. Una nuova fonte per la storia dell’arte, della cultura e della liturgia” (Laveglia&Carlone, 2022), and she has also published numerous articles in national and international books and journals. Since 2024, she has been a member of the scientific committee of the “San Matteo” Diocesan Museum in Salerno.

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https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2240-7251/21337

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Medieval Art, Medieval Europe, Community

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The present issue of the journal Intrecci d’arte is devoted to the theme Art Binds Communities in Medieval Europe, with contributions stemming from research presented in three sessions that were organised during the 2023 International Medieval Congress in Leeds (3-6 July), which focused on the thematic strand Networks and Entanglements. The term “network”, which is ubiquitous in contemporary discourse, typically evokes a sequence of material relationships. In contrast, the term “entanglement” suggests a more intricate form of interdependency among individuals, artefacts, and locations. The objective of these sessions was to situate these concepts within the distinct art-historical context of the European and Mediterranean Middle Ages, covering a chronological span from the 9^th to the 15^th century.

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