What's Going On at MEMS?
Dear Friends,
MEMS continues to sponsor the Premodern Colloquium (meets Sunday afternoons once a month) as well as occasional MEMS Lectures.
We hope you will join us, and watch the website calendar of events for upcoming lectures and other activities of interest!
The Premodern Colloquium. Calvary in Kitzingen: Dragging Your Cross through Eighteenth-Century Franconia
Achim Timmermann, U-M History of Art
Sunday, October 27, 2019
3:30-6:00 PM
Off Campus Location
This paper represents the first substantial study of the image of the Kreuzschlepper (cross-dragger), a monumental roadside sculpture of Christ carrying his instrument of martyrdom to Mount Calvary only found in the cultural region of Franconia and first introduced to these lands at the end of the seventeenth century.
For more information, please email willette@umich.edu.
For more information, please email willette@umich.edu.
| Building: | Off Campus Location |
|---|---|
| Location: | Off Campus Location |
| Event Type: | Workshop / Seminar |
| Tags: | Art History, European, Graduate, Humanities, Scholarship |
| Source: | Happening @ Michigan from Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) |
