- Prof. Dr. Manfred Luchterhandt
Universität Göttingen
Kunstgeschichtliches Seminar
Nikolausberger Weg 15
D-37073 Göttingen
mluchte@gwdg.de
Manfred Luchterhandt
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, History of Art, Faculty Member
- History of Art, Medieval Art and Architecture, Art History, Medieval Studies, Art Theory, History, and 62 moreByzantine art, Byzantine Studies, History of Pilgrimages to the Holy Land and the Relationship Between Monks and Pilgrims and Xenodochia or Hostels, Jerusalem, Medieval Art, Sacred Space, Jerusalem Archaeology, Early Christian Archaeology, Pilgrimage and travel to the Holy Land, Romanesque architecture, Early Medieval History, Christianity and Rome, Late Antiquity, Medieval Europe, Medieval Archaeology, Medieval Architecture, Medieval Church History, Carolingian Studies, Papacy (Medieval Church History), Christian Iconography, Constantinople, Medieval Italy, Topography of Ancient Rome (Archaeology), Architectural History, Early Christian Art, Mediterranean Studies, Early Medieval Art, Storia medievale, Late Antique Art and Archaeology, Early Medieval Archaeology, Byzantine Archaeology, History of architecture, Byzantine Iconography, Late Antique Archaeology, Holy Land Studies, Early and Medieval Islamic Art and Architecture, Early Christianity, Byzantine Architecture, History of Jerusalem, The Cult of the Mother of God, Maria Regina, Early Byzantine Rome, Relics and Relic Veneration, Icons and Rituals: Sacred Biography, Pilgrimage and Sacred Spaces, Byzantine Icons, Medieval Reliquaries, Archaeology of Mediterranean Trade, History of the Mediterranean, Mediterranean Underwater Archaeology, Mediterranean archaeology, Visigothic Spain, Spain (Mediterranean Studies), Medieval Spain, Medieval History of Spain, Ernst Kitzinger, Wine and Olive Oil Production, Amphorae, Trade, Antic Technology, Medieval Mediterranean Art and Architecture, Roman aristocracy, and Musiktheorieedit
- Professor of History of Medieval Art & Architecture, with a special focus on the Eastern Mediterranean (Rome, Italy, Byzantium, Near East)edit
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Conference: "Rhythms and Resonances: Sounding Objects in the Middle Ages". International Conference, Paris, 18 - 20 May 2022, German Forum for the History of Art
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LEEDS INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS 2016 “Stylus as a Paint Brush – Writing and Artistic Creation (sixth to ninth centuries)” Two sessions convened by Vincent Debiais and Francesca Dell’Acqua By involving scholars from various... more
LEEDS INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS 2016
“Stylus as a Paint Brush – Writing and Artistic Creation (sixth to ninth centuries)”
Two sessions convened by Vincent Debiais and Francesca Dell’Acqua
By involving scholars from various disciplines, these two sessions will explore: 1) the ability of late antique and medieval authors to create images throughout their written words, blurring the borders between visual and literary arts; 2) investigate how the written and oral dissemination of textual imagery interacted with the conception, production, and perception of visual arts in the same period.
Using their stylus as a painting brush, late antique and medieval authors composed texts in which the arrangement of words and the display of rhetorical devices transformed words in literary images/icons, making them part of a wider visual culture. Works of art described or evoked might have existed in their “physical” dimension, but, most of the time, textual imagery remained “literary works of art” in a poetic space of creation, a fiction of shapes and colors, depicted or shaped under the readers’ eyes.
Not willing to rely on the common assumption that inspiration, creation, and innovation are no more separate than the realms of literature and visual arts, and expanding the common assumption of “texts influencing visual arts,” the two sessions will reconsider the elaboration of textual and physical images/icons through the written circulation of texts among the literate, and the oral circulation of liturgical or poetic texts among a wider audience. In fact, what usually escapes the attention of scholars is how the oral transmission of texts eventually influenced visual culture, specific “mental visions” of art patrons and artisans, and the imagery produced by the latter. Therefore the relation between text and image – one of the oldest issues in art history – needs to be broken into a more complex sequence of: literary and theological tradition – current circumstances (theological debate, political situation, current mentality) – production of texts – written transmission of texts – verbal transmission of texts – reception of texts – consequent shaping of religious and lay mentality and mental imagery – shaping of visual imagery.
Through case-studies, these sessions will consider the “visual” dimension of late antique and early medieval texts, and will help understand how the circulation of ideas and mental images among writers and artists shaped the representation of certain subjects in lay and religious art. Connecting textual and visual works of art, this workshop offers an opportunity to take a broad look at the notion of “creation”.
Keywords:
Iconic mentality; visual rhetoric; mental images; textual images; liturgical texts; narrative texts; poetry; late antique to Carolingian/middle Byzantine period
Deadline
Please, send a 100-word abstract by the 20th of September 2015 to:
vincent.debiais@univ-poitiers.fr and F.DellAcqua@bham.ac.uk
“Stylus as a Paint Brush – Writing and Artistic Creation (sixth to ninth centuries)”
Two sessions convened by Vincent Debiais and Francesca Dell’Acqua
By involving scholars from various disciplines, these two sessions will explore: 1) the ability of late antique and medieval authors to create images throughout their written words, blurring the borders between visual and literary arts; 2) investigate how the written and oral dissemination of textual imagery interacted with the conception, production, and perception of visual arts in the same period.
Using their stylus as a painting brush, late antique and medieval authors composed texts in which the arrangement of words and the display of rhetorical devices transformed words in literary images/icons, making them part of a wider visual culture. Works of art described or evoked might have existed in their “physical” dimension, but, most of the time, textual imagery remained “literary works of art” in a poetic space of creation, a fiction of shapes and colors, depicted or shaped under the readers’ eyes.
Not willing to rely on the common assumption that inspiration, creation, and innovation are no more separate than the realms of literature and visual arts, and expanding the common assumption of “texts influencing visual arts,” the two sessions will reconsider the elaboration of textual and physical images/icons through the written circulation of texts among the literate, and the oral circulation of liturgical or poetic texts among a wider audience. In fact, what usually escapes the attention of scholars is how the oral transmission of texts eventually influenced visual culture, specific “mental visions” of art patrons and artisans, and the imagery produced by the latter. Therefore the relation between text and image – one of the oldest issues in art history – needs to be broken into a more complex sequence of: literary and theological tradition – current circumstances (theological debate, political situation, current mentality) – production of texts – written transmission of texts – verbal transmission of texts – reception of texts – consequent shaping of religious and lay mentality and mental imagery – shaping of visual imagery.
Through case-studies, these sessions will consider the “visual” dimension of late antique and early medieval texts, and will help understand how the circulation of ideas and mental images among writers and artists shaped the representation of certain subjects in lay and religious art. Connecting textual and visual works of art, this workshop offers an opportunity to take a broad look at the notion of “creation”.
Keywords:
Iconic mentality; visual rhetoric; mental images; textual images; liturgical texts; narrative texts; poetry; late antique to Carolingian/middle Byzantine period
Deadline
Please, send a 100-word abstract by the 20th of September 2015 to:
vincent.debiais@univ-poitiers.fr and F.DellAcqua@bham.ac.uk
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Studies the impact of plaster casts and graphic reproductions of Roman Antiquies from the 16th to 18th cent. on the formation of Antiquarian European knowledge culture and investigates the use of reproductions by Christian Gottlob Heyne... more
Studies the impact of plaster casts and graphic reproductions of Roman Antiquies from the 16th to 18th cent. on the formation of Antiquarian European knowledge culture and investigates the use of reproductions by Christian Gottlob Heyne in the beginnings of archeology as an academic discipline.
Research Interests: Manuscripts and Early Printed Books, Renaissance Studies, History of Sculpture, Sculpture, History of Collections, and 18 moreDrawings and Prints, Collecting and Collections, Prints (Art History), Antiquarianism, Renaissance antiquarianism, Prints and Drawings, History of Collections (Archaeology), History of Archaeology, Medieval Sculpture (XIII-XVth Century), Books, Roman Sculpture, Archéologie, Italian Renaissance sculpture, Representation of ancient architecture (technical and pictoresques drawings), Italian Academies, Greek and Roman Sculpture, Archeology, and Renaissance Antiquities Collections
Research Interests: Iconography, Architecture, Medieval History, Medieval Studies, Italian art, and 15 moreEarly Medieval Archaeology, Architectural History, Medieval Archaeology, History of Sculpture, Sculpture, Medieval Architecture, Romanesque Art, Medieval Art, - Architecture history, History of architecture, Ottonian Art, Romanesque architecture, Romanesque Sculpture, Architettura, and Architettura Medievale
Research Interests: History, Iconography, Art History, Architecture, Medieval History, and 15 moreMedieval Studies, Early Medieval Archaeology, Early Medieval History, Architectural History, Medieval Archaeology, History of Sculpture, Sculpture, Romanesque Art, Medieval Art, History of architecture, Romanesque architecture, Romanesque Sculpture, Architettura, Architettura Medievale, and Historische Bauforschung
This contribution focuses on Eastern relics in Rome, in particular the crib relic of S. Maria Maggiore, attested in the Basilica barely a decade after the Islamic conquest of Jerusalem. Reconstructing the political, economic and... more
This contribution focuses on Eastern relics in Rome, in particular the crib relic of S. Maria Maggiore, attested in the Basilica barely a decade after the Islamic conquest of Jerusalem. Reconstructing the political, economic and ecclesiastical networks in the 7th century, that made such a transfer possible, it discusses the role of relic transfers in the political upheavals of the eastern Mediterranean at that time and their impact on the early medieval West. The final considerations concern the potential of imported relics to integrate diaspora communities and their fragile identities in common festivals and places of worship.
Research Interests: Medieval History, Medieval Studies, Medieval Islam, Mediterranean Studies, Early Medieval History, and 12 moreIslamic Studies, History of the Mediterranean, Islamic History, Relics (Religion), Medieval Art, Christianity and Rome, Jerusalem, Medieval Rome, Mediaeval Cult of Relics and Saints, Patriarchate of Jerusalem, Religius and Islamic Studies, and Cult of Relics
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The paper discusses cross-cultural definitions and discourses of the Sacred at the medieval court in modern research (historical studies, Islamic studies, religious studies, cultural anthropology, art history) as well as in the... more
The paper discusses cross-cultural definitions and discourses of the Sacred at the medieval court in modern research (historical studies, Islamic studies, religious studies, cultural anthropology, art history) as well as in the controversies of sources from Antiquity, Byzantium, Medieval Europe and the premodern Islamic world.
Research Interests: Late Antique and Byzantine Studies, Medieval History, Medieval Studies, Medieval Islam, Architectural History, and 15 moreIslamic Art, Late Antiquity, Abbasid History, Relics (Religion), Medieval Art, Byzantium, Early Medieval Europe (Archaeology), Ancient Near Eastern History, Religious Studies, Sacred Architecture, Biography of Objects, Sacred Space, Palace, Mediaeval Cult of Relics and Saints, and Palaces
On the basis of new late medieval manuscripts of the 'Tractatus ymaginis Salvatoris' - the legend of the Salvator Icon in the Papal Lateran - the paper revises the genesis of this oldest Roman image legend and its adaption by Nicolaus... more
On the basis of new late medieval manuscripts of the 'Tractatus ymaginis Salvatoris' - the legend of the Salvator Icon in the Papal Lateran - the paper revises the genesis of this oldest Roman image legend and its adaption by Nicolaus Maniacutius around 1140. It focuses on the little-noticed practice of reciting such narratives in the nocturnal offices of the great Roman churches, framed by plainsong and other readings. Based of a careful investigation of Roman Legendaries and Passionaries it examines the genesis of this ritual and its importance for the transformation of narratives on cult images from oral to written tradition.
Research Interests: Medieval Literature, Medieval History, Material Culture Studies, Liturgy, Medieval Studies, and 13 moreMedical Image Processing, Early Christianity, Medieval Art, Christianity and Rome, Medieval Art History, Mental Imagery, Icons, Medieval Rome, Medieval Liturgy, Papal History, Urban Legends, Early Medieval Rome, and Cult of Images
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Research Interests: Medieval History, Medieval Studies, Medieval Church History, Early Medieval History, Papacy (Medieval Church History), and 19 moreMedieval Architecture, Carolingian Studies, Medieval Art, Christianity and Rome, Early Medieval Art, Early Medieval Studies, Carolingian Art, Charlemagne, Constantine, Papal Primacy, Storia Dell'Arte Medievale, Medieval Rome, Papal History, Papacy (Early Modern and Modern Church History), Architettura Medievale, Palace, Early Christian Mosaics, History of the Papacy, and Early Medieval Period
Research Interests: Roman History, Late Antique and Byzantine Studies, Architecture, Medieval History, Medieval Studies, and 40 moreRitual, Late Antique Archaeology, Early Medieval Archaeology, Medieval Church History, Early Medieval History, Architectural History, Medieval Archaeology, Papacy (Medieval Church History), Medieval Architecture, Medieval Art, Christianity and Rome, Late Antique Art and Archaeology, - Architecture history, Archaeology of Ritual and Magic, Early Medieval Art, Medieval Mediterranean Art and Architecture, Archaeology of Ritual, Avignon Papacy, History of architecture, Medieval Art History, Arqueologia Medieval, Archeologia medievale, Storia medievale, Storia Romana, Roman Sculpture, Storia Dell'Arte Medievale, Medieval Rome, Historia Medieval, Architettura, Architettura Medievale, Topografia Antica, Palace, Histoire Medievale, History of the Papacy, Sanctuaries in Ancient Rome and Italy, Palatial architecture, Palaces, Architecture and Public Spaces, San Giovanni in laterano, and History of Residential Architecture and Urban Planning
Research Interests: Archaeology, Medieval History, Medieval Studies, Medieval urban history, Petrarch, and 28 moreMedieval Church History, Early Medieval History, Late Antiquity, Topography of Ancient Rome (Archaeology), Carolingian Studies, Travel Literature, Medieval Art, Renaissance Rome, Ancient Topography (Archaeology), Reception of Antiquity, Antiquity, Marcus Aurelius, Medieval Sculpture (XIII-XVth Century), Merovingian and Carolingian, Storia medievale, Ancient Topography, Ancient Rome, Roman Sculpture, Medieval Rome, Topografia di Roma, Scultura, Architettura, Classical Antiquity, Topografia Antica, Mirabilia Urbis Romae / Marvels of Rome, Antiquities Looting, Roman statues, and Roman Archaeology
Papst Paschalis I. (817-824), S. Prassede und die Reliquiare des Lateran: zum Umgang mit Geschichte im päpstlichen Stiftungswesen des Frühmittelalters, in: Zugänge zu Archäologie, Bauforschung und Kunstgeschichte. Festschrift Uwe Lobbedey, hg. v. M. Liedmann u. V. Smit, Regensburg 2017, S. 383-402.more
Discusses the role of the material history in the building projects of Paschalis I. (817-824), the ecclestiastical career of the Pope as former supervisor of the Saint's cults in St. Peter's, and his relation to the pontificate of Leo... more
Discusses the role of the material history in the building projects of Paschalis I. (817-824), the ecclestiastical career of the Pope as former supervisor of the Saint's cults in St. Peter's, and his relation to the pontificate of Leo III. (795-816). Proposes an original dedication of the reliquaries in the Sancta Sanctorum Chapel to S. Maria Maggiore, where a private domus of the Pope motivated his reconstruction of S. Prassede as well as his intervention in the Marian Basilica.
Research Interests: Art History, Late Antique and Byzantine Studies, Architecture, Medieval History, Hagiography, and 25 moreLiturgy, Medieval Studies, Cult of Saints, Early Medieval Archaeology, Saints' Cults, Early Medieval History, Architectural History, Medieval Archaeology, Papacy (Medieval Church History), Byzantine Studies, Medieval Architecture, Medieval Art, Archeologia medievale, Virgin Mary, Byzantine Mosaics, Medieval Rome, Relics, Architettura Medievale, Relics and Relic Veneration, Saints, Early Christian Mosaics, Mediaeval Cult of Relics and Saints, Uses of the past, The Medieval Cult of Relics, and Santa Cecília
The paper discusses 57 relics from the Holy Land in the Roman Sancta Sanctorum Chapel, collected by the Popes from ca. 600 to 900 A. D. Using statistical analysis it is designed to answer the following questions: (1) What information does... more
The paper discusses 57 relics from the Holy Land in the Roman Sancta Sanctorum Chapel, collected by the Popes from ca. 600 to 900 A. D. Using statistical analysis it is designed to answer the following questions: (1) What information does the Lateran treasure provide concerning the way relics were acquired in early Islamic Palestine and the practices of post-antique pilgrimage? (2) What conclusions regarding their agents and bearers can be drawn from the quality, accessibility, and topographical distribution of these relics? (3) Through what ways and political channels did the relics come to Rome and to the papal court? (4) What were the prevailing political, social, and economic conditions that allowed for the high mobility of relics between Jerusalem and Rome in the early Middle Ages?
Research Interests: Late Antique and Byzantine Studies, Medieval History, Medieval Studies, Pilgrimage, Israel/Palestine, and 35 morePalestine, Medieval Islam, Mediterranean Studies, Pilgrimage Routes, Early Medieval History, Byzantine Studies, Islamic Studies, Egypt, Middle Eastern Studies, Byzantine History, Syria, History of the Mediterranean, Byzantine monasticism, Medieval Art, Christianity and Rome, Medieval Islamic History, Pilgrimage and Art, Trade, Pilgrimage and travel to the Holy Land, Jerusalem, History of Palestine and Israel, Sinai, Archaeology of pilgrimage, Medieval Rome, Historia Medieval, Medieval Art, Pilgrimage, Reliquaries, Christian pilgrimage shrines, Papal History, Byzantine art, Medieval pilgrimage, Merchant Shipping/Maritime Economics/shipbuilding/Mediterranean/Shipowners/Maritime Trade, Relics and Relic Veneration, Mediaeval Cult of Relics and Saints, Medieval Reliquaries, and The Medieval Cult of Relics
The study investigates the use of Icons in secular ceremonies through a comparative analysis of images and textual sources frome Rome and Byzantium. Icons were used in much the same way as ancient imperial portraits when honoring... more
The study investigates the use of Icons in secular ceremonies through a comparative analysis of images and textual sources frome Rome and Byzantium. Icons were used in much the same way as ancient imperial portraits when honoring dignitaries by acclamation or praying for divine protection, which explains why they often were placed where acclamations typically occurred, such as at palace entrances or in throne rooms. They illustrated the relation between temporal power and transcendental legitimacy in public rituals long before that relation had begun to attain a fixed, iconographic form.
Research Interests: Iconography, Late Antique and Byzantine History, Late Antique and Byzantine Studies, Medieval Studies, Iconoclasm, and 24 moreEarly Medieval History, Byzantine Studies, Medieval Europe, Medieval Art, Christianity and Rome, Courts and Elites (History), Early Medieval Art, Iconoclastic Controversy and Iconophilia, Court history, Byzantine ceremonial, Icons, Medieval Rome, Ceremonial entries, Byzantine art, Byzantine Iconoclasm, Byzantine Icons, Palace, Ritual Practices, Early Medieval Rome, Iconoclasmo, Icons and Rituals: Sacred Biography, Pilgrimage and Sacred Spaces, Liturgical Ceremonial, Orthodox Iconography, Icons, Byzantine Art, and Ceremonial and Symbolic Representations of Sovereignty In Early Modern Europe
Research Interests: Medieval History, Cultural Heritage, Liturgy, Early Medieval Archaeology, Medieval Archaeology, and 27 morePapacy (Medieval Church History), Memory Studies, Cultural Memory, Medieval Architecture, Medieval Art, Christianity and Rome, Courts and Elites (History), Early Medieval Art, Rome (History), Court history, Medieval Mediterranean Art and Architecture, Ceremony, Ritual and Performance, Archeologia medievale, Liturgy and Architecture, Icons, Medieval Rome, Medieval Liturgy, Papal History, late medieval and early modern history of European nobility and courts, Byzantine Icons, Cultural Heritage Cultural Memory Cultural Studies Folk legends Folklore Folktales History of Folklore Theory and Method Identity (Culture) Languages Mythology, Vatican, Early Medieval Rome, Sacred and Profane, Liturgical Ceremonial, San Giovanni in laterano, and Cult of Images
Research Interests: Architecture, Medieval History, Medieval Studies, Rome, City of, Early Medieval Archaeology, and 23 moreEarly Medieval History, Architectural History, Medieval Archaeology, Medieval Europe, Topography of Ancient Rome (Archaeology), Medieval Architecture, Carolingian Studies, Medieval Italy, Medieval Art, Christianity and Rome, Carolingian Art, Charlemagne, Constantine, Archeologia medievale, Carolingians, Medieval Rome, Episcopal Palaces, Carolingian art and architecture, Aachen, San Giovanni in laterano, Carolingian Propaganda, Ceremonial and Symbolic Representations of Sovereignty In Early Modern Europe, and Pope Leo III
Studies the origin of the idiomatic expression "in medio ecclesiae" in Ps 22 ("in medio ecclesiae laudabo te") and its application by frankish theologians to Cross-monuments in carolingian churches and the liturgy of their dedication. The... more
Studies the origin of the idiomatic expression "in medio ecclesiae" in Ps 22 ("in medio ecclesiae laudabo te") and its application by frankish theologians to Cross-monuments in carolingian churches and the liturgy of their dedication. The increasing use of such crosses in the liturgical hours and for the meditation of the Passion in carolingian prayer books from the 9th century on may be one reason for the change from the aniconic cross depiction to the later crucifixion image and for the following placement of tombs of founders before the cross and its altar around 1000. Examines the relation of this liturgical development to the first monumental crucifixions in Carolingian and Ottonian Art.
Research Interests: Medieval Architecture, Carolingian Studies, Medieval Art, Carolingian Art, Ottonian Art, and 11 moreCharlemagne, Medieval Liturgy, Crucifixion, Medieval crosses, Crucifix, The Cross and Crucifixion, Alcuin of York, Crosses in Christian Art, Bernward of Hildesheim, Hildesheim Treasure, and Crucifixes
Research Interests: Medieval Studies, Early Medieval Archaeology, Early Medieval History, Medieval Archaeology, Archaeology of Southern Italy, and 21 moreHistory of Art, Medieval Architecture, Carolingian Studies, Medieval Italy, Medieval Art, Christianity and Rome, Early Medieval Art, Archaeology, Historical Archaeology. Medieval Archaeology, Anthropology, Social Identities, Material Culture, Artefact Studies, Diaspora Studies, Trade and Exchange, Charlemagne, Archeologia medievale, Milano, Medieval Rome, Seventh-century popes, Carolingian Italy, Early Medieval Italy, Carolingian art and architecture, City of Rome, Medieval Popes, THE ROME O F POPE PASCHAL I. PAPAL POWER, Arte Carolingia, and Leo III
Research Interests: Late Antique and Byzantine Studies, Medieval History, Medieval Studies, Courts, Early Medieval Archaeology, and 22 moreEarly Medieval History, Medieval Archaeology, Byzantine Studies, Byzantine Architecture, Carolingian Studies, Christianity and Rome, Early Medieval Art, Court history, Carolingian Art, Constantinople, Charlemagne, Benevento, Medieval Rome, Salerno, Byzantine art, Carolingian Italy, Carolingian art and architecture, storia dei Longobardi, Longobardi, Charlemagne's Court, THE ROME O F POPE PASCHAL I. PAPAL POWER, and Pope Leo III
The paper discusses the use of croci dipinte and the first altarpieces in the monastic hours. A thorough study of practices in liturgical and other religious sources demonstrates, that from early medieval times the meditation of the... more
The paper discusses the use of croci dipinte and the first altarpieces in the monastic hours. A thorough study of practices in liturgical and other religious sources demonstrates, that from early medieval times the meditation of the Passion was connected to the use of narrative images, which later from the Psalter manuscripts were transferred to painted crosses and altarpieces. This leads to the conclusion, that monastic practices emulated by laic movements were more important for establishing Images on the altar then the often discussed eucharistic liturgy.
Research Interests: Art History, Medieval Literature, Medieval History, Medieval Studies, Painting, and 27 moreItalian art, Franciscan Studies, Memory Studies, Dominican History, Franciscan Spirituality, Medieval Art, Manuscripts (Medieval Studies), Medieval illuminated manuscripts, Meditation, Dominicans, Giotto, History of the Franciscan Order, Memoria, Medieval panel painting, Franciscan Monasteries, Dominican Order, Tuscany (Medieval Studies), Medieval Franciscans, Books of Hours, Domenicani, Liturgical Art, Panel Paintings, Arte Medievale, Illuminated Books of Hours, Franciscan Mariology, Duccio, and Psalters
Discusses the practice and meaning of the term "palatium sacrum" from Late antiquity until the Age of Charlemagne. Its use in Law, Ritual and Political Theory was much more restricted than claimed by many scholars, because of changing... more
Discusses the practice and meaning of the term "palatium sacrum" from Late antiquity until the Age of Charlemagne. Its use in Law, Ritual and Political Theory was much more restricted than claimed by many scholars, because of changing conceptions of sacred Space and Imperial Rulership in Early Medieval times.
Research Interests: Late Antique and Byzantine Studies, Architecture, Medieval History, Medieval Studies, Courts, and 27 moreLate Antique Archaeology, Early Medieval Archaeology, Political communication, Early Medieval History, Architectural History, Medieval Archaeology, Late Antiquity, Medieval Europe, Medieval Architecture, Carolingian Studies, Relics (Religion), Medieval Art, Late Antique Art and Archaeology, Courts and Elites (History), Lombard Art, History of architecture, Charlemagne, Justinian I, Emperor, Lombard Italy, Roman Emperors, Palace, Relics and Relic Veneration, storia dei Longobardi, Palatium, Roman and Lombards, Cult of Relics, and PALATIUM Court Residences
Research Interests: Medieval History, Early Medieval Archaeology, Early Medieval History, Architectural History, Medieval Archaeology, and 19 morePapacy (Medieval Church History), Medieval Europe, Carolingian Studies, Medieval Art, Christianity and Rome, Courts and Elites (History), Early Medieval Art, Court history, Medieval Mediterranean Art and Architecture, Carolingian Art, History of architecture, Charlemagne, Archeologia medievale, Papacy, Medieval Rome, Architettura Medievale, History of the Papacy, Early Medieval Period, and Aachen
Investigates the Impact of the main political powers (Bishop, comune, entourage of Matilde di Canossa) on the controversial discussed building history of the Cathedral von Parma 1040-1170
Research Interests: Architecture, Medieval History, Medieval Studies, Medieval Archaeology, Medieval Architecture, and 13 moreRomanesque Art, Patronage (History), Medieval Art, History of architecture, Aristocracy, Romanesque architecture, Romanesque Sculpture, Architettura, Architettura Medievale, Countess of Canossa, Italian communes, Architettura Romanica, and Italia Comunale
Research Interests: Late Antique and Byzantine History, Late Antique and Byzantine Studies, Architecture, Medieval History, Medieval Studies, and 20 moreCourts, Early Medieval Archaeology, Early Medieval History, Architectural History, Byzantine Studies, Late Antiquity, Byzantine History, Byzantine Architecture, Byzantine Iconography, Byzantine Archaeology, Late Roman Empire, Courts and Elites (History), Constantinople, History of architecture, Ceremony, Ritual and Performance, Byzantine art, Palace, Liutprand of Cremona, Byzantine history and archaeology, and Ceremonial and Symbolic Representations of Sovereignty In Early Modern Europe
Ausgehend von den Entwürfen für das Hamburger Nationaltheater und in Auseinandersetzung mit Kurt W. Forster erörtert der Aufsatz die Kontroverse um das "Architektonische Lehrbuch" Schinkels. Entgegen der jüngeren Forschung versucht er... more
Ausgehend von den Entwürfen für das Hamburger Nationaltheater und in Auseinandersetzung mit Kurt W. Forster erörtert der Aufsatz die Kontroverse um das "Architektonische Lehrbuch" Schinkels. Entgegen der jüngeren Forschung versucht er nachzuweisen, dass ein solches Lehrbuch tatsächlich geplant war, allerdings lediglich als kommentiertes Tafelwerk, mit dem Schinkel eine neue historische Stillehre propagierte. Es war Teil der lebenslangen Versuche Schinkels, die durch Traditionskritik erschütterten Kategorien der Architekturgeschichte durch ein neues, epochenübergreifendes Normensystem zu ersetzen.
