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Symposium of Research Students:Research of Visual Art
In Memoryof the late Robert H. Smith
June 16th 2010
The Department of the History of ArtThe Faculty of Humanities
The Symposium hosted students from a variety of disciplines
focusing on the study of the visual arts from various eras
" The course of human history is determined not by what happens in the skies, but by what takes place in the hearts of men and women. It is important to know not only how to make a living, but also how to make a life. We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give. "
Robert H. Smith, 2006
Greetings and Opening Remarks
Prof. Israel Bartal, Dean of the Faculty of HumanitiesProf. Joseph Patrich, Director of The Robert H. and Clarice Smith Center for Art History
Greetings and Opening Remarks
Prof. Luba Freedman, Head of The Department of the History of Art Dana Brostowsky Gilboa, Initiator and Organizer of the Symposium
Session I The Image of Divinity and the Sacred Space
Raanan Y. Eichler: The Symbolism of The Ark of the Covenant's Cherubs in the Ancient Ritual of Israel: Comparative Iconographic Research
Michael Shenkar: Religious Iconography in the Pre-Islamic Iranian World: Between Aniconism and Anthropomorphism
Neta Bar-Yoseph Bodner: The Church of the Santo Sepolcro, Pisa's Baptistry and The Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem
Zohar Hanegbi: Inter influences of Synagogue Sacred Furniture between some Ethnic Groups (Ashkenazi, Sefardic and Yemenite) in Jerusalem during the Time of the 'Old Yeshuv'
Chaired by Dr. Tallay Ornan
Session I The Image of Divinity and the Sacred SpaceChaired by Dr. Tallay Ornan
Raanan Y. Eichler
Michael Shenkar
Neta Bar-Yoseph Bodner
Zohar Hanegbi
Session II Contemporary Issues Reflected in Art
Yael Young: The Weapon and the Body: Descriptions of Weapons in Greek Art of the 5th Century B.C.E.
Batyah Schachter: Dancers of the Iron Age in Palestine
Dana Brostowsky Gilboa: Figurative Images on Mamluk Metalwork in Egypt and Syria in the 13th-14th Centuries
Irina Chernetsky: Florence as The New Florence: The City's Image in the Tornabuoni Chapel
Chaired by Dr. Sarit Shalev-Eyni
Session II Contemporary Issues Reflected in ArtChaired by Dr. Sarit Shalev-Eyni
Yael Young
Batyah Schachter
Irina Chernetsky
Dana Brostowsky Gilboa
Session III: Representations of the Body: The Animalistic, the Human and the Romantic
Sharon Khalifa-Gueta: The Presence of a Dragon in a Painting and Drawing of Saint Jerome by Jacopo Bellini
Lotem Pinchover: Family Mosaic: Representations of Parenting in the Mariological Cycle in Post-Iconoclastic Byzantium
Alla Tal: The 'Romantic' Element in the Interpretation of the Double Portrait Bernardino Campi Painting Sofonisba Anguissola by Sofonisba Anguissola
Sara Benninga: Bruegel's Land of Cockaigne and the Representation of the Curvaceous Body
Chaired by Prof. Shalom Sabar
Session III: Representations of the Body: The Animalistic, the Human and the Romantic Chaired by Prof. Shalom Sabar
Sharon Khalifa-Gueta
Lotem Pinchover
Alla Tal
Sara Benninga
Concluding Remarks
Dr. Rina Talgam, Head of The Department of the History of ArtDana Brostowsky Gilboa, Initiator and Organizer of the Symposium
Plenary Session Patronage and Medieval Art
Prof. Linda Safran Donation and Commemoration in Medieval Mediterranean Art
Chaired by Prof. Ziva Amishai-Maisels
We thank everyone for making this event possible
Robert H. Smith
21.7.1928 - 29.12.2009
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