Chris Nygren's guest appearances

Chris Nygren

Genealogies of Modernity

Beatrice Institute Podcast

Ryan McDermott

Ben Miller

Andy Warhol

Lyman Stone

Micah Redding

Brad Gregory

John Wyatt

Brandon McGinley

Barbara Newman

Anthony Bradley

Jason Thacker

Ian Marcus

Brian Green

Jonathan Anderson

Walker Percy

OwlTail

Chris Nygren teaches history of art and architecture and serves as the Director of Medieval and Renaissance Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Nygren joins us to discuss miracle-making images, specifically those associated with healing from plague. Dr. Nygren examines what these icons meant to people in the past and how they continue to matter to believers today. We end our discussion by talking about the images of Pope Francis giving his Urbi et Orbi in an empty St. Peter’s Square. The images referenced in this episode can be found on our website:  https://beatriceinstitute.org/miraculous-images-and-contemporary-meaning-making-images Miraculous images Boccaccio’s Decameron Rituals of remembrance and the contingency of society Making sense of survival The intersection of Catholic devotion and public health Icons as plague protection Pope Francis’s Urbi et Orbi Corporeal power in images Contemporary meaning-making Links:  The Decameron by Boccaccio Boris TV series  The Historian’s Craft by Marc Bloch

Chris Nygren teaches history of art and architecture and serves as the Director of Medieval and Renaissance Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Nygren joins us to discuss miracle-making images, specifically those associated with healing from plague. Dr. Nygren examines what these icons meant to people in the past and how they continue to matter to believers today. We end our discussion by talking about the images of Pope Francis giving his Urbi et Orbi in an empty St. Peter’s Square. The images referenced in this episode can be found on our website: <a href="https://beatriceinstitute.org/miraculous-images-and-contemporary-meaning-making-images" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> https://beatriceinstitute.org/miraculous-images-and-contemporary-meaning-making-images</a> Miraculous images Boccaccio’s Decameron Rituals of remembrance and the contingency of society Making sense of survival The intersection of Catholic devotion and public health Icons as plague protection Pope Francis’s Urbi et Orbi Corporeal power in images Contemporary meaning-making Links: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Decameron-Penguin-Classics-Giovanni-Boccaccio/dp/0140449302" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> The Decameron by Boccaccio</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_(TV_series)" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Boris TV series</a> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Historians-Craft-Reflections-History-Techniques/dp/0394705122" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> The Historian’s Craft by Marc Bloch</a>

Miraculous Images and Contemporary Meaning-Making with Chris Nygren

This week’s episode is based on Chris Nygren’s session at the summer school in 2018, and a follow-up interview we conducted with him afterwards. Chris is an assistant professor of Art History at the University of Pittsburgh. He discusses the genealogy of art written by Giorgio Vasari in 16th century Florence, and the ways that it is taken to be normative in what constitutes ‘modernity’ in art even into the 21st century.

This week’s episode is based on Chris Nygren’s session at the summer school in 2018, and a follow-up interview we conducted with him afterwards. Chris is an assistant professor of Art History at the University of Pittsburgh. He discusses the genealogy of art written by Giorgio Vasari in 16th century Florence, and the ways that it is taken to be normative in what constitutes ‘modernity’ in art even into the 21st century.

Episode 4 - Chris Nygren