Projects / Programmes
Iconographic studies and including Slovenian art heritage into the ICONCLASS information system
| Code |
Science |
Field |
Subfield |
| 6.09.00 |
Humanities |
Art history |
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umetnostna zgodovina, kulturna zgodovina, ikonografija, ikonologija, ICONCLASS, informacijski sistemi, pomen in podoba, simbolika, krščanska ikonografija, profana ikonografija, portret, tihožitje, žanr
Researchers (9)
Organisations (1)
Abstract
The proposed applicative project is aimed to direct iconographic studies of Slovenian art to a joint work, being cerfully planned and proceeding from detailed theoretical guidelines, methodologically and terminologically upgraded and based on thematic documentation of Slovenian art heritage.
As to the contents it will be divided into two parts:
1) scholarly research
2) introduction of the ICONCLASS information system
Within the project the following selected themes will be studied: Christological themes (Arma Christi, Sunday Christ/Holy Sunday, Holy Saturday, etc.), Marian themes (the Immaculate, Mariahilf, etc.), saints (most popular medieval and Baroque saints, eg. Sts. George, Michael, Martin, John the Baptist, Antony of Padua, John Nepomuk, Francis Xavier, Notburga etc.; saints of religious orders, eg. Franciscan or Jesuit saints, etc.) and mythological themes, personifications, allegories as well as portrait, landscape, genre and still-life. Also more comprehensive iconographic programmes of Slovene medieval and Baroque churches, monasteries, castles and palaces will be studied.
The research will involve art monuments from all of Slovenian regions, from the Middle Ages to the beginning of the 20th century. On this groundwork it will be possible to assess the dissemination of individual themes over the entire Slovenian territory, the peculiarities of individual regions and periods, and the influences from a broader European cultural context. Special attention will be paid to creating Slovene terminology.
The project will provide the application of the uniform ICONCLASS information system to the study of all of Slovenian materials, which will lead to collaboration between research institutions, institutes for the protection of monuments and art museums and galleries, facilitate the accessibility of data, enable an overall survey of Slovene artistic patrimony and include it in world iconographic surveys.
Significance for science
Iconography with iconology is one of the main branches of art history; numerous themes which it encompasses and are of key importance for the understanding of art and man are the desideratum of the discipline. Scholarly research within the project has therefore systematically filled the deepest lacunae in the sphere of native art history, and with the new findings consequently contributed to European art history as well, which welcomed them positively and responded to them. The researches, devised on elaborated theoretical grounds, thus significantly expanded the hitherto knowledge and hence understanding of art works and art periods and they also upgraded methodological approaches and contributed to the development of Slovene technical terminology. They also introduced thematic documenting or classification of Slovene art heritage according to the generally accepted European ICONCLASS system. The findings of iconographic researches and iconographic material itself which is an essential source for the reconstruction of individual historical periods are relevant also for other humanities and social sciences.
Significance for the country
With the expanding of the knowledge of the contents of art works, the project results exert significant influence on the understanding of past periods and the integration of Slovenia in a wider European context and on its identity, cultural and social awareness and resultantly the evaluation and preservation of art heritage of the Republic of Slovenia. The ICONCLASS system opens possibilities of a wider inclusion of Slovene art patrimony into world iconographic surveys. The findings of the researches are incorporated in educational programmes, they support other humanities and social sciences (interested in iconographic materials and related scholarly findings are ethnologists, anthropologists, historians, culturologists, musicologists, sociologists, psychologists, etc. and in general all those who use art works as illustrative materials), and they are also useful for profitable business (tourism, publishing, etc.).
Most important scientific results
Annual report
2008,
final report,
complete report on dLib.si
Most important socioeconomically and culturally relevant results
Annual report
2008,
final report,
complete report on dLib.si
