Michele Bacci and Vladimir Ivanovici are the guest-editors of our next theme issue, "From Living to Visual Images. Paradigms of Corporeal Iconicity in Late Antiquity". By exploring the various traditions of iconic living present in the Roman world in the period preceding the affirmation of the icon, the contributions to this issue will 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.
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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