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This study investigates the pictorial world of the medieval Vadstena Abbey church. The interior of the church was filled with altars and images that had the three separated groups of viewers in mind: the 60 nuns, the 25 conventual brothers and the numerous pilgrims coming to visit the shrine of Saint Birgitta. The pilgrims faced a pictorial message where the role of saint Birgitta was emphasized, but still one among all the other saints. The images directed to the nuns and the brothers accentuated the role of the Virgin Mary as the exemplarily follower of Christ. Furthermore, all the church interior was furnished to enhance the position of the nuns, i.e. that this monastic foundation was made primarily for women. Birgittinerna och deras bilder lägger fram resultat från flera forskningsprojekt om det senmedeltida klostret i Vadstena av konstvetaren Eva Lindqvist Sandgren. Det presenterade materialet grundar sig på studier om nunnornas boktillverkning och deras textilproduktion, samt en undersökning av de skilda bildsfärer som olika kyrkobesökare/brukare kunde ta del av (eller var utestängda från) genom kyrkorummets uppdelning i tre tydligt separerade rumsliga enheter: nunnornas upphöjda och inhägnade korläktare, klosterbrödernas kor och läktargångar samt lekfolkets kringgärdade yta i mitten av det stora kyrkorummet. Författaren använder sig av ett material som spänner från stort till smått, från kyrkans kalkstensmurar och ända ned till stygnnivå i broderierna.
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The current article is aimed to outline a first review of the solid relationship of Claudio Magris with the Nordic world, both from the perspective of his reception in Denmark, Norway and Sweden and from the study of his fecund encounter with the works of authors like Henrik Ibsen, Knut Hamsun, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Jens Peter Jacobsen, Herman Bang and others. These authors, whose works were partially translated by Magris, eventually played a meaningful role in his own writing. Besides affirming himself as a relevant voice in the Scandinavian context, his work as a mediator for Nordic literature has made him a reference point for Scandinavian studies in our country.
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Durant de longues années, la sculpture mariale des Pyrénées-Orientales a été étudiée à l'aune d'une historiographie plus descriptive qu'analytique. La majorité des ouvrages s'intéresse aux sculptures du point de vue iconique et à leur appropriation. La désignation de quelques Vierges comme « chef de file » impliquait d'emblée une relégation de beaucoup d'autres Vierges au rang des oubliées. Les principales Vierges publiées sont celles qui portent la marque de l'art roman ou qui sont inscrites dans ce que Mathias Delcor a qualifié de « tradition romane » alors qu'elles présentent toutes les caractéristiques de l'art gothique. Face à cette carence stylistique et technique, notre recherche propose d'utiliser l'apport des méthodes d'examens de laboratoire à la connaissance des techniques de mise en œuvre des Vierges à l'Enfant du département et de renouveler les analyses techniques et stylistiques de l'ensemble du corpus sur base de méthodologies récentes. Les analyses des essences de bois ont également permis de proposer de nouvelles pistes de recherches quant à l'impact de la gestion forestière sur l'usage des bois.
Christian art and symbolism --- Sculpture, Medieval --- Technique. --- Mary, --- Art.
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Monographie consacrée à la peinture murale des églises des Alpes occidentales du Nord, entre France et Italie, à la fin du Moyen Age et au début de l'époque moderne. En étudiant la culture visuelle médiévale, l'auteure dévoile les relations des individus ou des groupes avec des objets artistiques et révèle des enjeux de pouvoir typiques de l'espace montagnard. ©Electre 2021
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A methodologically ambitious, sumptuously illustrated, and erudite study of a twelfth-century monastery near Rome that offers a compelling biography of a neglected Romanesque jewel as well as evocative multisensory readings of its architecture, frescoes, and sculpture. Blending innovative art historical analysis with archaeology, epigraphy, history, liturgy, theology, and landscape and memory studies, The Medieval Monastery of Saint Elijah: A History in Paint and Stone is the first comprehensive interdisciplinary study of a deeply intelligent yet understudied male Benedictine convent near Rome. The only monastery known to have been dedicated to the prophet Elijah in the Latin West, it was rebuilt c.1122–26 with papal patronage. Today, the monastery is represented by its church of Sant’Elia, a stone basilica endowed with its original Cosmati marble pavement and liturgical furnishings, early and high medieval sculptures and inscriptions, and vibrant wall paintings that include unique depictions of the prophet Elijah and the twelve tribes of Israel as warriors, an apse program with a distinctly elite Roman origin, and an important narrative cycle of the Apocalypse. An outlying chapel marks the site of a theophany that sanctified the landscape and gave the monastery its raison d’être. The Medieval Monastery of Saint Elijah makes significant contributions to current art historical debates concerning communal identity and the construction of social memory, artistic creativity and processes, the multisensory and exegetical capacities of works of visual art, intersections of topography and sanctity, and the effects of medievalism on our understanding of the Middle Ages.
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Art, Medieval --- Church architecture --- Church decoration and ornament --- Christian art and symbolism
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Christian art and symbolism --- Christianity and art --- Idols and images --- Image (Philosophy) --- History. --- Worship.
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Few subjects have generated more argument in early medieval, Byzantine, and Orthodox history than Iconoclasm. Supposedly for more than a century the Orthodox Church and Byzantium were wracked by controversy over religious figural imagery, culminating in 843 in the establishment of icon veneration as a fundamental Orthodox practice. In this multidisciplinary Companion to Byzantine Iconoclasm, twelve contributors set the controversy in context and critically examine the key debates: what was the argument about? How much destruction and persecution were there? What caused and fuelled the controversy? What links, if any, were there to events in the Islamic Caliphate and the Latin West? And how can we use our contested literary and material sources to offer answers to these questions?
Iconoclasm. --- Byzantine Empire --- Iconoclasm --- Icons, Byzantine --- Byzantine icons --- Christian art and symbolism --- Idols and images --- History --- Worship --- Church history --- Iconoclastes
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"Quali sono i processi che portano alla formazione di valori identitari? Quali i fattori che funzionano da creatori, marcatori, simboli di un bagaglio culturale riconoscibile e condiviso?Partendo da tali questioni, gli autori dei diciassette saggi contenuti in questo volume si interrogano, da punti di vista diversi e complementari, sulla genesi, lo sviluppo e le specificità distintive del patriarcato di Aquileia in epoca medievale, inteso come caso studio ideale. Il patriarcato costituisce infatti un osservatorio privilegiato per esaminare dinamiche identitarie complesse, in virtù di caratteristiche comuni che lo contraddistinguono come entità territoriale: la pretesa origine e autorità apostolica della Chiesa aquileiese; l’ambivalente natura della figura istituzionale del patriarca, che era non solo capo spirituale ma anche politico della diocesi; la sua vasta estensione geografica, sovranazionale, che comprendeva numerose regioni, e univa popoli che parlavano lingue diverse e avevano differenti origini storiche ed etniche, così come molteplici usi e tradizioni.L’arte e la liturgia, il culto dei santi, la promozione di figure esemplari, le commissioni illustri sono qui esaminati come agenti e simboli nella creazione di un patrimonio diffuso. Ne emerge un mosaico complesso e sfaccettato, in cui l’identità non è un blocco monolitico ma un prisma cangiante, che si trasforma e mostra di volta in volta le sue diverse facce."
Christian art and symbolism --- Art, Italian --- Christian antiquities --- Catholic Church. --- History. --- Aquileia Region (Italy) --- Church history. --- Aquileia --- Patriarcat --- Aquileia (Italy)
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