Browse Exhibits (16 total)

This is the collection curated by the team of CB51 scholars Taiga Abe, Caroline Boyce, Hannah Feldman, Ingrid Goetz, Miriam Huettner, and Abby Westover.

In this exhibit, I examine a variety of Medieval ceramics likely to have been traded along the Silk Road in order to better understand the ways by which it facilitated the transfer of goods, cultures, and practices throughout the Western, Central, and East Asia. 

This exhibit seeks to demonstrate continuity from the classical era to the Middle Ages as it leads into the Renaissance. Focusing on the concept of “Triumph,” the objects included in this exhibit have been carefully selected in order to show the unique ways in which varying geographic regions across time have expressed and utilized this idea.

Introduction

Over time, there are a variety of means by which the original form of a piece of art is lost, including intentional manipulation, unintentional damage, and repair. As a result, the way that modern individuals view these objects is through the lens of a new art form, and thus the original objects, over time, take on new meaning. Often times, this meaning is similar to that of the original objects, as the result of careful curation and exhibition. However, most of the time, since objects take on a different context from where they were designed, and their fragmentation paints a unique picture of them, modern viewers experience these objects in unique ways. This exhibit will investigate how these factors play into our understanding of the objects from Middle Ages.

This exhibit will be very interactive and will present you with many questions that are aimed to guide you through the collection.

Click here to see a gallery and map of all the objects in this collection.

These are the main categories that this exhibit will explore:

Dislocated Objects

Intentional Fragmentation

Partial Remains Require Inference

Rehabilitated Objects

New Meanings