Special issue "Performing Nationhood in Early Modern Rome", guest-edited by Susanne Kubersky-Piredda (Bibliotheca Hertziana, Rome). *** In the Early Modern period, the concept of national identity differed greatly from the nineteenth- and early twentieth-century ideology of the nation state. The word natio defined a group of persons unified by common territorial origins and cultural markers such as language, habits, customs, traditions, and confessions. Crucial to the construction of one’s own national identity was its performance in comparison and opposition to others’. Like no other city in Europe, Rome, home of the papacy, destination of pilgrims, and metropolis of art, was a perpetual hub for foreigners and thus was an ideal laboratory for the formation of national identities and their representation on an international stage. The aim of the forthcoming special issue is to locate and define emerging notions and expressions of nationhood in Rome from the 15th through the 17th centuries, and in particular the material, visual, and intellectual practices of nationhood.
The essay retraces the biographical events of the sculptor Giulio Cartarè, last pupil of Gian Lorenzo Bernini […]
By exploring the various traditions of iconic living present in the Roman world in the period preceding the affirmation of the icon, the contributions in this theme issue recreate part of the context in which the concept of icon was formed and invite readers to add a new perspective on the phenomenon: that of surrogate for the living iconic body. […]
Jean Dubuffet made his dramatic breakthrough into the art world in 1946 with what would become his signature innovation, the hautes pâtes (thick or high pastes). This article highlights the uneasy double bind Dubuffet found himself in, as his theoretical interest in ephemerality gave way to his clients’ and dealers’ practical concerns over the material durability of his work.
During the 1880s, Buenos Aires witnessed a boost in the project of founding a national art scene. Due to the lack of official institutes and public support for the arts, the process of imagining and creating a national art took place both on paper and in the studio. […]
One of the most outstanding designers of 19th-century European gardens, Édouard André also designed park complexes preserved until today in Poland as well as in Lithuania. The reconstruction of the history of laying out these parks and their analysis allow us to enrich […]
This article examines the stylistic development of church architecture in the town of Nakhichevan-on-Don, founded in 1779 by Armenians resettled from the Crimea by Catherine II. The study uncovers three main trends in the work of the Armenian church architects […]
The field of art historiography under State Socialism in Central and Eastern Europe is understudied so far. In a comparative approach, this special issue surveys the interpretative modells that architectural historians in Eastern Europe during the Cold War era applied to Baroque architecture […].
Christian Schad, one of the most important representatives of New Objectivity (Neue Sachlichkeit) in Germany, has long been classified as an artist who neither politically nor artistically adapted to the Nazi regime. Based on archival material, this essay questions both the self-image of the artist and his reception after 1945 […].
Henri Matisse's "Jazz" became one of the most celebrated livres d'artiste of the 20th century. The images, created during the German Occupation of France, were embedded with symbols of cultural resistance, while his text, which he composed after the defeat of the Germans, reflected the transition to a post-Liberation France. […]
Instead of stabilising the poles of stasis and non-stasis, and narrative and non-narrative, in the 1970s, Julião Sarmento plays within a concomitant scheme: photography and painting, photography and film, stasis and narrative are merged. What is at stake is […]
The socio-political transformation of the Polish nation between 1815 and 1830 and the Neoclassical style dominating in the Fine Arts constitute the background for this investigation of two public monuments dedicated to national heroes in those years.[…]
Przemiany społeczno-polityczne polskiej wspólnoty narodowej w latach 1815-1830 oraz klasycyzm dominujący wówczas w sztukach pięknych są tłem dla rozważań na temat form dwóch pomników projektowanych w tym czasie ku czci bohaterow narodowych. […]
The Illyrian-Hungarian College in Bologna was founded in 1553. This article is the first to investigate its architectural history by drawing on a large body of archival documents.
The doors of Santa Sabina in Rome are the most complete Late Antique doors to survive till this day. Though widely studied during the last 150 years, the question of their dating has never been completely resolved. With the results of initial Wiggle Matching Analysis on two selected panels, this article confirms […]
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