Russian Imperialism and the Medieval Past (Past Imperfect)

Arts & Photography

Foletti, Ivan

History & Criticism

Arc Humanities Press

Today, the question of the origins of Christian aesthetics is no longer a topical issue in medieval art history, although a persuasive answer has never been formulated. One of the reasons for this oblivion deals with the looming figure of Josef Strzygowski, who published his pivotal volume Orient oder Rom in 1901, now discredited for its racial and proto-Nazi ideas. However, the debate does not concern Strzygowski alone: the prodromes of this critical concept go back to the nineteenth century, when the Russian, Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman empires fought to control contested territories, and studies of the humanities mirrored these conflicts. This volume, originating in the urgency to reflect on this pivotal conundrum in our field, attempts to reconstruct the (mis)fortune of a question that, according to Alois Riegl, "is the most important and most trenchant one in the entire history of mankind to date".

Orient Oder Rom?: History and Reception of a Historiographical Myth (1901-1970) (I Libri Di Viella. Arte / Studia Artium Medievalium Brunensi)

Diebold, William J.

Cormack, Robin

Filipová, Marta

Kadoi, Yuka

Benesovska, Klara

Frantova, Zuzana

Heckova, Petra

Kok, Elif

Lovino, Francesco

Palladino, Adrien

Viella Editrice

Inventing Medieval Czechoslovakia 1918-1968: Between Slavs, Germans, and Totalitarian Regimes (Convivia)

Jakubec, Ondrej

Klipa, Jan

Rosenbergova, Sabina

Galeta, Jan

The objective of this book is to draw attention to fifth-century Rome - to those hundred years which even today need to be looked at from different perspectives. It is a key moment, a border between worlds, far too important not to receive further attention. The studies, presented here together, aim to respond to new demands: the art object remains at the centre, but with a new search for its context. This context would be unthinkable without the key concept of co-existence - between popular and elite culture, popes and emperors, pagans and Christians. As well as between liturgy - intrinsically necessary to the Christian world - and patronage - the intellectual project which stems from a cultural concept. Moreover, co-existence is crucial between the mindset of the Roman elites (the tradition inscribed in the city's DNA), and new internal and external demands arising from this rich moment in the history of Rome. The fifth-century, studied in this book, is the moment in which future and past meet, and Antique and Christian coincide. An artistic moment with only one identifying feature: its incredibly rich complexity.

The Fifth Century in Rome: Art, Liturgy, Patronage (Studia Artium Medievalium Brunensia, 4)

Gianandrea, Manuela

Viella - Liberia Editrice

Sulla sommita dell'Aventino si erge la basilica di Santa Sabina, uno dei monumenti piu significativi del mondo tardoantico. Il suo ingresso principale e costituito da un ampio nartece, caratterizzato dalla presenza di opere straordinarie, quali l'antica porta lignea, la decorazione a imitazione del marmo di V secolo e l'imago altomedievale della Theotokos. Il nartece, per anni trascurato negli studi, doveva essere, in origine, uno degli ambienti di maggior fasto e importanza dell'intero edificio e, soprattutto, non un semplice spazio a servizio delle opere ma il luogo per cui queste erano state pensate. Destinato con ogni probabilita principalmente ai catecumeni e ai penitenti, doveva connotarsi come una vera e propria zona liminare, mondo tra i mondi, zona di transito fisico e spirituale. Il presente volume intende indagare questo luogo a tutto tondo, con un'attenzione particolare alla sua storiografia, all'archeologia del monumento e alle sue decorazioni, rivelandone la facies tardoantica straordinariamente conservata nella sostanza. Si vuole proporre al lettore uno sguardo sinergico, volto a mostrare come la coesistenza dei diversi media permetta una piu esaustiva comprensione dello scenario artistico tardoantico.

Zona Liminare: Il Nartece Di Santa Sabina a Roma, La Sua Porta E l'Iniziazione Cristiana (I Libri Di Viella. Arte / Studia Artium Medievalium Brunensi) (Italian Edition)

Religious

Viella

English summary: This book offers an overview of the development of artistic patronage in Rome during the Middle Ages through a detailed study of the period's primary artistic supporter -- the papacy. French description: Il volume offre un quadro della committenza artistica a Roma nel corso di tutto il Medioevo attraverso uno studio dettagliato sulle figure dei singoli pontefici che ne furono i principali promotori. I fatti artistici, analizzati dal punto di vista della committenza papale, non solo consentono di capire il significato primario connesso alla loro funzione, ma ricreano anche un'immagine speculare del contesto culturale di appartenenza. L'ambito cronologico, circoscritto fra il pontificato di Silvestro I (314-335) e quello di Martino V (1417-1431), lascia intravedere nel comportamento di molti pontefici la persistenza di una mentalita che, da un atteggiamento iniziale di semplice patronato e protezionismo, si tramuta nel tardo Medioevo in vero e proprio mecenatismo. I saggi raccolti, ricchi di spunti e suggestioni, pongono sotto la giusta luce aspetti meno noti di una citta come Roma, quale centro ideale della cristianita e termine imprescindibile di riferimento per le sue valenze storico-artistiche.

La Committenza Artistica Dei Papi a Roma Nel Medioevo (I Libri Di Viella. Arte)

Barral I Altet, Xavier

Bolgia, Claudia

Lucherini, Vinni

Gandolfo, Francesco

Ballardini, Antonella

Cavallaro, Anna

Claussen, Peter Cornelius

D'Onofrio Pre, Mario

Giesser, Valentine

Guiglia Guidobaldi, Alessandra

Pace, Valentino

Pollio, Giorgia

Taddei, Alessandro

Tracing the life and work of Nikodim Kondakov, a pioneer in the field of late Antiquity and Byzantium in eastern Europe, this biography is a true tale of adventure. It follows the complicated and challenging events in Kondakov's life before and after the Russian Revolution, from his humble beginnings to his university studies and analyzes his inspired creation of an innovative and precocious study of art history in Russia. From a brilliant and successful career to the trauma endured during the Russian Revolution, the story becomes one of wandering and dependence; nevertheless, and in spite of the shift in history and in his own life, Kondakov's studies sketch a vast geography of Late Antique and medieval culture from the Mediterranean to the Urals. The work approaches distant horizons, giving a glimpse of the migrations from Asia and the inception of medieval Europe with its Christian values; and it travels the paths of history along trails marked by artifacts and monuments. Reconstructing the personal and existential events in Nikodim Kondakov's life contributes to the understanding of a critical phase in the founding of art history and, more broadly, the histories of Russia and of the countries the scholar traversed during a long life filled with tribulations.

From Byzantium to Holy Russia: Nikodim Kondakov (1844-1925) and the Invention of the Icon (I Libri Di Viella. Arte / Studia Artium Medievalium Brunensia, 5)

Biographies & Memoirs

Dedicato a Serena Romano, questo libro vorrebbe restituirle un po' di quel tanto che ha offerto, in vari modi, a tutti quelli che hanno avuto la fortuna di conoscerla e di frequentarla. L'argomento generale, quello delle continuita di lunga durata, dei ritorni in generale, e delle rinascite dell'antico, le e caro da sempre. Lei stessa lo ha esplorato in contributi fondanti e i numerosi autori che hanno accolto l'invito a partecipare al volume ne hanno dato declinazioni diverse. La decisione di dare un tema unitario a questo volume miscellaneo si giustifica anche per un'altra ragione: figlia del '68, Serena Romano ha sempre avuto una certa reticenza nei confronti di onorificenze troppo accademiche, staccate a volte dalla dimensione concreta della ricerca. Da qui il desiderio di costruire un volume che possa essere un prolungamento tangibile di un modo di guardare la storia cui Serena Romano ha contribuito per anni.

Survivals, Revivals, Rinascenze: Studi in Onore Di Serena Romano (I Libri Di Viella. Arte / Etudes Lausannoises D'Histoire de) (English, French and Italian Edition)

Natale, Mauro

Kessler, Herbert L.

Di Fabio, Clario

Tomasi, Michele

Elsig, Frederic

Michel, Christian

Rossi, Marco

Paravicini-Bagliani, Agostino

Bacci, Michele

DE MARCHI ANDREA

Toscano, Gennaro

Bock, Nicolas

Scirocco, Elisabetta

Ginzburg, Silvia

Monciatti, Alessio

Croci, Chiara

Bordi, Giulia

Molteni, Ilaria

Agosti, Barbara

Albonico, Simone

Angelelli, Walter

Cannon (ps, Joanna

Cavazzini, Laura

Cerutti, Damien

Falla Castelfranchi, Marina

Filipova, Alzbeta

Franzé, Barbara

Gardner, Foundation Professor of the History of Art Julian

Kaenel, Philippe

Luthi, Dave

Parlato, Enrico

Quadri, Irene

Queijo, Karina

Tosini, Patrizia

Zanardi, Bruno

Oggetti, Reliquie, Migranti: La Basilica Ambrosiana E Il Culto Dei Suoi Santi (386-972) (La Storia Dell'arte. Temi) (Italian Edition)

If there is one constant in the history of Christianity and especially of the Western Church, it is its deep desire to be connected with its own past. From the perspective of the longue duree, it might even be possible to state that a meditation on Christian origins was a common and widespread response used throughout history in the face of each great moment of crisis within the Church. In those situations, the rhetoric produced by the Church was always aimed at emphasizing a desire to return to these mythical roots, the ideal community, a pure and radical Christianity. The question underlying this book is the way in which this desire for the past provides the occasion to re-live, re-think and re-create Christian origins. More precisely, the crux of our work is to understand how this desire can transform and rewrite the past both in materiality - with restorations of ancient monuments - and in ideas - writing history. In this book, the main focus of attention is dedicated to three key moments, corresponding more or less to three crucial episodes in the history of the Catholic Church in the modern era. The first of these three is the Reformation and subsequent Counter-Reformation, between the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Second comes the moment in which the Catholic Church lost its temporal power during the Unification of Italy and the "spiritual" reaction culminating with the First Vatican Council (1869-1870). Lastly is the period before and after the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965), which can be considered the most significant reaction of Catholicism towards modernity.

Re-Thinking, Re-Making, Re-Living Christian Origins (I Libri Di Viella. Arte / Etudes Lausannoises D'Histoire de) (English and Italian Edition)

Gebhardt, Johannes

Fiumi Sermattei, Ilaria

Santanicchia, Mirko

Pierguidi, Stefano

Barbolani Di Montauto, Novella

Cantone, Valentina

Cracolici, Stefano

Di Croce, Alessandra

D'Ovidio, Stefano

Malesevic, Filip

Piva, Chiara

Tranchina, Antonino

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