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Clark Art Lecture On The Mandylion
09:06AM / Wednesday, February 24, 2021
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WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Friday, Feb. 26, Beinecke Fellow and professor at Syracuse University Glenn Peers presents a talk through the Clark's Research and Academic Program's lecture series on "The Mandylion's Marital and Martial Message Machines." 
 
The pre-recorded lecture will be available on the Clark website from Feb. 26 through June 15.
 
Byzantine precursor to the Veronica, the Mandylion was believed to be a self-portrait made by Jesus and sent to Abgar, King of Edessa, with the apostle Thaddaeus. This talk focuses on the tenth century, when the Mandylion was a symbol of earthly and divine power within the new Christian dispensation. The Mandylion was viewed as a wedding veil, battle mask, weapon of mass destruction, king maker, and more.
 
Glenn Peers is professor in the Department of Art and Music Histories at Syracuse University and emeritus at the University of Texas at Austin. He has been a fellow at the Hebrew University Institute for Advanced Study in Jerusalem, a Whitehead Professor at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, and a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. His publications include Orthodox Magic in Trebizond and Beyond: A Fourteenth-Century Greco-Arabic Amulet Roll and Byzantine Things in the World, which accompanied an exhibition he guest-curated at the Menil Collection, Houston. During his fellowship at the Clark, Peers is working on a study of the post-human and media theory in Byzantine culture.
 
 
Visit clarkart.edu/Research-Academic/RAP-Events to view this lecture. 
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