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The Renaissance Restored
This handsomely illustrated volume traces the intersections of art history and paintings restoration in nineteenth-century Europe. Repairing works of art and writing about them—the practices that became art conservation and art history—share a common ancestry. By the nineteenth century the two fields had become inseparably linked. While the art historical scholarship of this period has been widely studied, its restoration practices have received less scrutiny—until now. This book charts the intersections between art history and conservation in the treatment of Italian Renaissance paintings in nineteenth-century Europe. Initial chapters discuss the restoration of works by Giotto and Tit...
Giotto's Arena Chapel and the Triumph of Humility
In this book, Henrike Lange takes the reader on a tour through one of the most beloved and celebrated monuments in the world – Giotto's Arena Chapel. Paying close attention to previously overlooked details, Lange offers an entirely new reading of the stunning frescoes in their spatial configuration. The author also asks fundamental questions that define the chapel's place in Western art history. Why did Giotto choose an ancient Roman architectural frame for his vision of Salvation? What is the role of painted reliefs in the representation of personal integrity, passion, and the human struggle between pride and humility familiar from Dante's Divine Comedy? How can a new interpretation regarding the influence of ancient reliefs and architecture inform the famous “Assisi controversy” and cast new light on the debate around Giotto's authorship of the Saint Francis cycle? Illustrated with almost 200 color plates, this volume invites scholars and students to rediscover a key monument of art and architecture history and to see it with new eyes.
Expanding media histories
Contemporary media history is a rapidly growing field that extends far beyond traditional studies of technology or institutions such as radio, film, and television. This volume expands the scope further still to analyze ephemeral, mundane phenomena long overlooked by media historiography. In eight original essays, the volume demonstrates the strengths of a broad concept of the media. The first part centers on media systems and media events, with studies of spiritist séances, Gallup polls, the mediated persona of Kaiser Wilhelm II, and the burial of a Swedish elder statesman in 1915. The second part focuses on media materialities and infrastructure such as art replicas, ring binders, tourist guidebooks, and media technology in the IKEA home. Aimed at students and academics alike, Expanding Media Histories offers new empirical research, which engages critically with key concepts in media history today.
Athanasius Raczyński (1788–1874). Aristocrat, Diplomat, and Patron of the Arts
This book depicts the long rich life and wide ranging work of Count Athanasius Raczyński (1788–1874). By exploring his complex personality, his processes of thought and his accomplishments, it reveals a man at once a wealthy aristocrat, a Pole in the Prussian diplomatic service, an active participant in and perceptive observer and critical commentator on political life, a connoisseur and art collector of European renown, and the author of ground breaking studies on German and Portuguese art – in short a distinguished and fascinating nineteenth century figure.
An Artful Relic
Winner of the 2022 Roland H. Bainton Book Prize from the Sixteenth Century Society & Conference In 1578, a fourteen-foot linen sheet bearing the faint bloodstained imprint of a human corpse was presented to tens of thousands of worshippers in Turin, Italy, as one of the original shrouds used to prepare Jesus Christ’s body for entombment. From that year into the next century, the Shroud of Turin emerged as Christianity’s preeminent religious artifact. In an unprecedented new look, Andrew R. Casper sheds new light on one of the world’s most famous and controversial religious objects. Since the early twentieth century, scores of scientists and forensic investigators have attributed the Sh...
Italian Frescoes
"The second volume of Professor Roettgen's survey ... featuring paintings from 1470 to 1510 ... Descriptive and interpretive essays on ... all aspects of fresco painting: the artists and their patrons, cultural and historical conditions, local traditions, and technique. Each essay concludes with a diagram of the site, followed by a ... series of full-page and double-page color plates of the wall paintings"--Cover
Bild-Raum-Wissenschaft
As space conditions perception, the analysis of relationships between image and space is highly significant. The current popularity of immersive spaces proves the strong affective potential of space and forms part of a long art historical tradition, upon which this volume offers critical reflection. Building on the methodological considerations inspired by the "spatial turn" and the "pictorial turn," the authors bring together approaches from image and architectural studies to formulate a new image-space methodology. The ten case studies of profane and sacred image-space ensembles from different eras and cultures discuss the types and functions of such ensembles as well as their respective aesthetic strategies, the related reception mechanisms, and performative uses. Introduction in Methods of the Analysis of Image-Space Relationships Interpretations of Image-Space Ensembles from the Middle Ages to the 21st Century Study of the Relationship between Ideas of Space and Spatial Perception Look inside
Marginale Zeichentechniken
Motoric--mechanical drawing techniques like tracing, copying, and cut and paste are among the fundamental workshop practices of the pre-modern era. They were also used in the training of renowned artists like Leonardo, Dürer, Michelangelo, and Rubens in order to modify designs, expand the supply of motifs, and produce new artworks. In the art theory of the time, however, they were largely ignored or even disparaged. It is only possible to take note of a few positions that show appreciation for these techniques until the decisive ennoblement of copying in the eighteenth century. The discrepancy between the importance of drawing techniques in practice and the addressing of them in art theory was overlooked for a long time. This volume thus strives to provide an indispensable new perspective in research on drawing and includes transdisciplinary contexts as well as aspects relating to art technologies and philosophy.
Klang und Stille in der Bildenden Kunst
Akustische Phänomene sind unsichtbar und vergänglich – sie bildlich zu fassen, stellt einen anspruchsvollen künstlerischen Akt dar. Die interdisziplinären Beiträge untersuchen künstlerische Strategien ihrer Darstellung, indem sie aus kunsthistorischer und musikwissenschaftlicher Sicht epochenübergreifend auf formale und inhaltliche Aspekte diverser Schlüsselwerke eingehen.
Johannes von Nepomuk
Der bereits vor der offiziellen Kanonisierung (1729) einsetzende Kult um den Prager Kanonikus Johannes von Nepomuk (um 1350 bis 1393) zeichnet sich durch seine europaweite Konjunktur, die in alle sozialen Schichten hineinragende Rezeption sowie eine ausgeprägte Multimedialität aus. Der Fokus dieses Sammelbandes liegt auf den gleichermaßen umfangreichen wie verschiedengestaltigen bildlichen, architektonischen, musikalischen und textlichen Manifestationen der Verehrung des populären Märtyrers in den habsburgischen Ländern und im übrigen Europa vom 18. bis in das frühe 19. Jahrhundert. Im Zentrum der Beiträge steht eine inhaltlich breit gefächerte Untersuchung des Kults und der zahlreichen Feiern in Bezug auf Funktion und Integration der Künste, wobei in detaillierter Weise und unter Heranziehung einer Vielzahl von Quellen den medienspezifischen Ausprägungen und Darstellungsformen nachgegangen wird.
