The biennial series on International Romanesque Conferences was launched as the result of a generous donation from one of the Association’s members, John Osborn.
Upcoming Romanesque Conference
2026, Toulouse: Romanesque: Transmission, Reception, Imitation
Development of the Romanesque Conference series
The first of the BAA’s Romanesque Conferences was held in London on 9-11 April, 2010 under the heading Romanesque and the Past: Retrospection in the Art and Architecture of Romanesque Europe, and was attended by around 150 scholars, speakers and amateur enthusiasts from a dozen countries. In April 2012, the conference was set in Palermo and looked at ‘Romanesque and the Mediterranean’. 2014 saw ‘Romanesque: Patrons and Processes’ organised jointly with the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya in Barcelona. In 2016 we returned to the UK with ‘Romanesque Saints, Shrines and Pilgrimage’ in Oxford. ‘The Regional and Transregional in Romanesque Europe’ was held in Poitiers in 2018.
The next conference in the series had to be postponed as the result of measures taken to control the spread of COVID-19 in 2020. This was to have been held in association with the Dommuseum in Hildesheim, but instead took place online from 7-10 September, 2021, with a largely unchanged programme. This entertained a chronological theme – ‘Romanesque and the Year 1000′ – with the aim of examining art and architecture in the Latin West between c.970 and c.1030.
The most recent conference, ‘Romanesque and the Monastic Environment’, was held in Valladolid from 8-10 April, 2024.
Past Romanesque Conferences
2024 Valladolid:
Romanesque and the Monastic Environment
2022 Rome:
Image and Narrative in Romanesque Art
2021 Hildesheim:
Romanesque and the Year 1000
2018,Poitiers:
The Regional and Transregional in Romanesque
2016 Oxford:
Romanesque Saints, Shrines and Pilgrimage
2014 Barcelona:
Romanesque Patrons and Processes
2012 Palermo:
Romanesque and the Eastern Mediterranean
2010 London:
Romanesque and the Past