Cornelia Logemann
München
Host: Henrike Haug
Kunsthistorisches Institut
01.05.–15.06.2026
Forschungsprojekt
Filtered truths: Public perceptions at the festive banquet
The sightlines and access routes to the festivities are staged in a variety of ways. Accounts of the grand banquet held to mark Charles IV’s visit to the French court in 1378 reveal elaborate choreographies, which are depicted in highly varied ways in the historical sources. Banquets of this scale are aimed at different audiences. The theatrical surface inherent to the event addresses different groups – first within the events themselves, then, in the often retrospective documentation, an interested audience outside the festive setting. The multifocality of the event often stands out clearly. Whilst the material relics of such celebrations—such as ceremonial architecture, ceremonial vessels and decorative elements—have long been the focus of art history, the varying degrees of visibility of these objects remain largely unclear. The project aims to investigate which audiences the ceremonial objects and visual spectacles of the well-documented banquets of past centuries were intended for.
Vitae
Cornelia Logemann studied art history, ethnology and French literature at the University of Hamburg. Following her PhD in 2005, she led, amongst other things, a junior research group on the topic of “The Principle of Personification” within the Transcultural Studies Programme at the University of Heidelberg from 2008 to 2013. Following her habilitation at the University of Heidelberg in 2018, she held visiting professorships in Bielefeld, Munich and Heidelberg. From 2022 to 2025, she was Professor of 15th–17th Century Art History at the University of Graz.
Key area of Research
- Text and image in the late Middle Ages
- pre-modern food and table customs
- temporality and retrospectives in the 15th century
- allegories and personifications before 1600
- interactions between tapestries and literature between the 14th and 16th centuries
Selected Publications
Das große Fressen: Tapisserien und Texte der Condamnation de Banquet [Quellen zur Kunst 36], Baden-Baden 2021.
Prinzip Personifikation. Frankreichs Bilderwelten im europäischen Kontext von 1300 bis 1600, Heidelberg University Publishing, Heidelberg 2023.
Maskeraden der Macht. Verkleidung als Bildaufgabe am französischen Hof des 16. Jahrhunderts, in: Queerness in der Kunst der Frühen Neuzeit, hg. v. Lisa Hecht und Hendrik Ziegler, Wien/Köln 2023, S. 239-262.
Wo beginnt der Körper und endet das Kostüm? Feste am französischen Hof des 16. Jahrhunderts, in: Vormoderne Herrscherkörper im globalen Vergleich, hg. v. Jan Meister, Jonas Borsch, Basel 2024, S.185-210.
Kalkulierter Exzess. Frans Floris Göttermahl und das Antwerpener Publikum, in: Menschen und Meisterwerke im Dialogm hg. v. Stefan Albl, Graz 2025, S. 65-90.
Contact
PD Dr. Cornelia Logemann
Institut für Kunstgeschichte der LMU München
Zentnerstr. 31
80798 München
Erich Auerbach Institute for Advanced Studies
E-Mail: cornelia.logemann(at)kunstgeschichte.uni-muenchen(dot)de