Projects / Programmes
Italy's Artistic Exchange with Southeastern Central Europe 1400-1800
| Code |
Science |
Field |
Subfield |
| 6.09.00 |
Humanities |
Art history |
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| Code |
Science |
Field |
| H310 |
Humanities |
Art history |
history of art, (secular and sacred) art, Late Gothic, Early Modern Europe, Renaissance, Baroque, Classical tradition, architecture, sculpture, painting, graphic arts, stucco, pictorial sources, cultural heritage, cultural history, iconography, patrons and artists, churches, castles, palaces, mansions, mural painting, Slovenian art, Central-European art, Italian art, history of collecting
Researchers (11)
Organisations (3)
Abstract
Geographically and historically, Slovenia provides an ideal vantage point for studying the multi-faceted artistic exchange between the Serenissima and the Holy Roman Empire. Shifting the emphasis from the metropolis to minor urban centers, this project will seek to throw new light on fifteenth-century Venice's pivotal (albeit far from exclusive) role in the dissemination of Tuscan and Lombard Renaissance style not only in the architecture and sculpture of the Adriatic rim but also of its continental hinterland (e.g. Bartolomeo Buon, Janez Lipec). Concomitantly, particular emphasis will be placed on contacts of contemporary north Italian painters with their transalpine counterparts (e.g. Leonardo Thanner, Master of the Krainburg Altarpiece). With regard to the sixteenth-, seventeenth-, and eighteenth-century architecture, the research shall focus on the predominantly Lombard itinerant master builders (e.g. the Carlone family). Centering on the crucial decades before and after 1700, comparatively little known outputs of numerous Italian sculptors, who also worked outside Venice (e.g. Enrico Merengo, Baratta, Francesco Robba), will be assessed side by side with the careers of Italian-trained painters from central Europe (e.g. Franz Carl Remp) and Italian-born artists en vogue north of the Alps (e.g. Giulio Quaglio, Pietro Liberi, Michelangelo Ricciolini). Apart from interpretive studies of Renaissance and Baroque mythological imagery, the project will entail examination of drawings, prints and book illustrations bearing witness to the shifting modes of perception and reception of classical antiquity. Special attention will be, moreover, given to Seventeenth- and eighteenth-century art collections (e.g. in the County of Gorizia). And last but not least, comprehensive case studies will be dedicated to the patronage of the Prince-Bishops of Ljubljana (e. g. Otto Friedrich Buchheim, Joseph Rabatta, Sigismund Karl Herberstein) whose interests spanned from Rome and Perugia to Salzburg, Vienna, Passau and Regensburg.
