Miniatures and Music at the Court of Anjou Naples

Colloquium
November 1^st and 2^nd 2010

Over the last two years the Anjou Bible has been the subject of detailed stylistic, iconographic, codicological and historical research for the very first time. Innovative research techniques were applied when carrying out the laboratory research, conserving the 338 folios and making them accessible digitally.

The international colloquium Miniatures and Music at the Court of Anjou Naples - ca. 1340 will shed light on the context and artistic production in Naples at the beginning of the fourteenth century. The colloquium is the culmination of the Anjou Bible research project. It is an interdisciplinary forum for various approaches to historio-cultural research into the Anjou Bible (musicological, art historical and book historical aspects). It juxtaposes the interaction between the visual language, patronage and reception of illuminated codices and the musical repertoire at the royal court. It brings together in Leuven experts from research institutes at home and abroad.

With the support of Peeters Publishers