Dr. Sarah Kozlowski, Associate Director of the Edith O’Donnell Institute of Art History at the University of Texas at Dallas and Director of EODIAH’s Center for the Art and Architectural History of Port Cities presents

Materiality and revelation in fourteenth-century Naples: a new proposal for the function and configuration of the Stuttgart Apocalypse Panels

Since they first appeared in the art historical literature in 1905, the so-called Stuttgart Apocalypse Panels, which as a pair form a vast narrative panorama of scenes from the Book of Revelation painted in cameo-like monochrome against a deep lapis lazuli ground, have counted among the most dazzling and enigmatic objects to emerge from the Angevin court of Naples in the earlier fourteenth century. Held since the 1970s in the collection of the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, the panels’ iconographic program, narrative structure, and relationship to contemporary theological debates at the Neapolitan court are well understood, but their intended function and configuration have remained an open question.

This project draws on the findings of a recent technical study and assembles a body of comparable objects of a related format to offer a new proposal for the panels’ original physical context and to explore how their materials and movement structured the experience of their first owners. At stake is our understanding of how painters at the court of Naples investigated and thematized the representational powers and limits of the medium of panel painting.

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Image courtesy of Staatsgalerie Stuttgart