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Stones of Medieval Italy

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To celebrate the publication of Italian Medieval Sculpture in The Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Cloisters by Lisbeth Castelnuovo-Tedesco and Jack Soultanian, international specialists will present talks on medieval sculpture.

Lectures:
Welcome and Overview
Peter Barnet, Michel David-Weill Curator in Charge, Department of Medieval Art and The Cloisters, MMA

Introduction
Charles T. Little, curator, Department of Medieval Art, MMA

Italian Medieval Sculpture: Who? What? When? Where?
Dorothy F. Glass, professor emerita of Art History, University at Buffalo

Collecting Italian Sculpture
Pierre-Yves Le Pogam, chief curator, Department of Sculpture, Musée du Louvre

The Stones of Medieval Venice
Lorenzo Lazzarini, Professor of Applied Petrography and Director of the Laboratory of Analysis of Ancient Materials, Università IUAV di Venezia

Rethinking the Medieval Portrait Bust in Italy
Rebecca Müller, assistant professor, Kunstgeschichtliches Institut, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main

Discussion Session
Moderated by Valentino Pace, Professor of Medieval Art, Università di Udine, and Richard Krautheimer Professor, Bibliotheca Hertziana, Max Planck Institute for Art History, Rome

This program is made possible by the Audrey Love charitable Foundation.

Looking Back at Hungate – Medieval Pottery

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In this video, Dr Ailsa Mainman gives a talk on the different types of pottery found during the Hungate excavations.

From the autumn of 2006 to the end of 2011 a team from York Archaeological Trust investigated the archaeology of the Hungate area of York, as part of the regeneration of an often overlooked corner of the city.

Discover what was unearthed for yourself when you visit DIG: An Archaeological Adventure.

Medieval London Pottery

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Jacqui Pearce, Senior Ceramic Specialist at MOLA (Museum of London Archaeology), discusses the development of MOLA's medieval London pottery type series. The excavation of a number of waterfront sites in London led to the discovery of pottery-rich medieval dumps located behind wooden river revetments. The revetment timbers were accurately dated through dendrochronology which enabled MOLA to create an incredibly detailed typology of pottery through the medieval period. Pottery is the most common material found on archaeological sites and this precise dating information has been hugely important, enabling us to date the layers of archaeology found on our sites.