Projects / Programmes
SLOVENIAN ARTISTIC IDENTITY IN EUROPEAN CONTEXT
January 1, 2009
- December 31, 2014
| Code |
Science |
Field |
Subfield |
| 6.09.00 |
Humanities |
Art history |
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| Code |
Science |
Field |
| H310 |
Humanities |
Art history |
| Code |
Science |
Field |
| 6.04 |
Humanities |
Arts (arts, history of arts, performing arts, music) |
art history, fine arts, architecture, sculpture, painting, monument preservation, aesthetics, culture, history, cultural history
Researchers (20)
Organisations (1)
Abstract
Several chapters in the historical survey of art in Slovenia still remain poorly known and insufficiently researched. To fill the void, basic researches of the programme group will manly concentrate on these issues, laying special emphasis on the time between the 17th and the 20th century. The focal point will be the Baroque period when, apart from the Gothic, art in our country was most prosperous. The art of the 17th and 18th centuries has contributed a particularly important share to Slovenian artistic identity, and the Baroque, as the last of the great European all-emcompassing styles, represented one of the firmest cultural bonds which tied Slovenia to other European countries. With regard to European integration processes, researches into Baroque art are among the priority tasks of Slovenian art history, since the unity of Europe is based on the difference between individual nations.
The investigation of Slovenian artistic identity, together with the placing of Slovenian artistic patrimony into European context, will be conducted simultaneously on several (regional and genre) levels, which is suited to the character of our heritage. At the focus of the research will be the art of Ljubljana and the so-called Ljubljana Baroque (architecture, sculpture, painting), and alongside with this the Ljubljana bishops and the ecclesiastical orders that left an essential imprint on the image of Slovenian capital will be studied. New scientific findings will be presented to a wider public on the occasion of the 300th anniversary of the consecration of Ljubljana cathedral. Subjects of a detailed research will be some central personalities of Carniola, such as the sculptors surnamed Vrbnik, the architects surnamed Maček, the painter Jelovšek, the polymath Johann Weichard Valvasor and his close connectedness with the artistic heritage of the 17th century and his zeal as an art collector. On the basis of a thorough study of the monuments in Carniola, Styria and the Littoral, it will be possible, on the one hand, to establish regional variants, investigate key monuments and significant artists and, on the other, to prepare an overall survey of art from the 17th to the 20th century on the Slovenian territory. The self-evident fact that Slovenian artistic past can no longer be studied in Slovenia alone, in isolation from the art of our European neioghbours, has not been sufficiently taken into account in "practical" research, although it is crucial in the establishing and recognizing of Slovenian identity. Therefore this will be the principal methodological approach of the researches. Because the knowledge about the formal characteristics of the monuments is not sufficient, but it is also necessary to comprehend and highlight their spiritual background and culturo-historical circumstances of their origin, an important share in the research work of the programme group will be the study of archival documents and literary sources and critical publication of sources for art history.
Significance for science
The researches contributed to the development of art history by further widening and deepening our knowledge about Slovenian artistic past, increasing the entire humanistic knowledge about European past, providing new methodological approaches, as well as by improving Slovenian art historical terminology and university study programmes (new university programme). This continues also in the new programme. The greatest contribution in the last few years was made in the following fields of research: patronage and collecting, iconography, the role of art in public space, art and memory, ideology and politics, topographical inventories of Slovenian territory, early modern architectural sculpture, Baroque, 19th century architecture, art of the first half of the 20th century. Research findings have been published in scientific journals (the research policy of the institute include publication of journal Acta historia artis Slovenica and cooperation in the International Association of Research Institutes in the History of Art, RIHA), in the monographs (among others also in the series Topographical Art Inventories and Opera Instituti Artis Historiae published by the Institute) and presented at the workshops and international conferences (co-)organised by the institute. Research findings were permanently integrated in the university curriculum and applied in training of new doctoral candidates.
Significance for the country
The results provide a scientific basis, crucial for a suitable protection, restoration, presentation and preservation of art monuments, i.e. for the cultural heritage of Slovenia (apart from this, the researchers also disseminate the results directly by participating in the commissions of the Institute for the Protection of Cultural Heritage, and by calling attention to the significance of monuments in the press and by organizing round tables and talks). The research results also help increase historical awareness and thus enforce the awareness of national identity. They support Slovenian cultural equality among other European nations. The findings of the programme team members influenced the protection of cultural heritage, university and secondary education, as well as exhibitions, publishing, cultural tourism and other related activities. The team cooperated closely with users and clients (municipalities, monument protection service, galleries, museums, archives, and other owners of art works and monuments such as monasteries, dioceses, castle owners). Based on researches, exhibitions, lectures, guided tours, thematic electronic virtual tours and round tables have been organised; a number of scientific and popular texts have been published, which enabled a higher awareness and popularisation of art among the wider public (i. e. the booklet series Art in the Pocket (Umetnine v žepu) and professional journal Art Chronicle (Umetnostna kronika). The systematically composed (photographic) database of art works, which is being established at the Institute, is also a fundamental inventory for monument protection. For cultural development, editorial work (monographs, journals, electronic databases) and compilation of contents for websites were especially important.
Audiovisual sources (1)
Most important scientific results
Annual report
2009,
2010,
2011,
2012,
2013,
final report,
complete report on dLib.si
Most important socioeconomically and culturally relevant results
Annual report
2009,
2010,
2011,
2012,
2013,
final report,
complete report on dLib.si
