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