Art History Lecture: Dr. Denva Gallant, “Gender, Sex and Its Continuum: Considering Withdrawal in Images of the Vitae patrum"

Dr. Denva Gallant, Assistant Professor of Art History at Rice University, will give a lecture on issues and representations of gender in a premodern manuscript. This lecture expands on her recently published book, Illuminating the Vitae Patrum: The Lives of the Desert Saints in Fourteenth-Century Italy (Penn State University Press, 2024), which is the first work to examine comprehensively the Morgan Library’s richly illustrated manuscript (MS. M. 626), whose extraordinary illustrations comprise a singular witness to the rise of the eremitic ideal and its impact on the visual culture of late medieval Italy.

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This event is generously sponsored by Temple University's General Activities Fund (GAF), the Art History Department at the Tyler School of Art and Architecture, and Temple University Libraries.

Image: Saint Marinus sits alone in a monastery, manuscript illumination in the Vitae patrum, made in Naples, Italy, ca. 1350–75 CE (New York, The Morgan Library and Museum, MS M.626, fol. 129v).