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Visual Arts and Architecture in the Spatial Context of the City of Maribor

Research activity

Code Science Field Subfield
6.09.00  Humanities  Art history   

Code Science Field
H310  Humanities  Art history 

Code Science Field
6.04  Humanities  Arts (arts, history of arts, performing arts, music) 
Keywords
cultural heritage, history of art, visual arts, public monuments, urbanism, space, patronage, reception, Maribor
Evaluation (rules)
source: COBISS
Researchers (13)
no. Code Name and surname Research area Role Period No. of publicationsNo. of publications
1.  33885  Nejc Bernik    Technical associate  2011 - 2014  34 
2.  12585  PhD Marjeta Ciglenečki  Humanities  Researcher  2011 - 2014  1,027 
3.  33608  Mitja Gradišnik  Computer science and informatics  Researcher  2011 - 2014  33 
4.  11064  PhD Marjan Heričko  Computer science and informatics  Researcher  2011 - 2014  913 
5.  33218  PhD Renata Komić Marn  Art history  Technical associate  2011 - 2014  137 
6.  28435  PhD Tina Košak  Art history  Researcher  2011 - 2014  178 
7.  29697  Kristjan Košič  Computer science and informatics  Researcher  2011  45 
8.  02480  PhD Anica Lavrič  Art history  Researcher  2011 - 2014  273 
9.  29394  PhD Franci Lazarini  Art history  Researcher  2011 - 2014  269 
10.  15690  PhD Barbara Murovec  Art history  Head  2011 - 2014  371 
11.  32202  PhD Tina Potočnik  Architecture and Design  Junior researcher  2011 - 2013  102 
12.  05001  PhD Blaž Resman  Art history  Researcher  2011 - 2014  234 
13.  31715  PhD Polonca Vidmar  Art history  Researcher  2011 - 2014  409 
Organisations (3)
no. Code Research organisation City Registration number No. of publicationsNo. of publications
1.  0618  Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts  Ljubljana  5105498000  62,228 
2.  0796  University of Maribor, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science  Maribor  5089638003  28,012 
3.  2565  University of Maribor Faculty of Arts  Maribor  5089638050  32,540 
Abstract
The project involves applicable research of art-historical issues of Maribor, second-largest city of Slovenia and capital of Slovenian Styria. It is conceived so as to simultaneously present the findings to the broadest public via web portal, workshops and lectures. Cooperation with residents of Maribor, students and tourists will be established throughout the duration of the project. Its interrelation to the culture of the city will be particularly accentuated in 2012, when Maribor will be the European Capital of Culture, the results of the project, however, will aim at a permanent inclusion of the humanistic heritage in the development of the city. Using various approaches, bound to the evolution of the space through time, to topographic inventories, to public monuments or to art institutions and personalities who represent the artistic heritage of Maribor, the project will study the art in the city above all from the social-spatial aspect and from the viewpoints of patronage and reception. It will shed light on how the urbane image of Maribor, its art monuments and collections reflect the social-historical role of this space, with a special regard to the patronage structure, to the demands of the art market and to the present-day understanding of the visual arts in the city. The work on the project will include collecting, analysis and comparison of material, archival and field research, documentation of monuments, comparative research in art-history libraries, writing original scientific papers and expert texts, including a guide-book of Maribor, and preparation of a scientific meeting. Among the key monuments that the researchers of the project team will deal with are the Cathedral with the Slomšek Square, the Jesuit church of St. Aloysius, the Minorite monastery, the Plague column in the Main Square and the City hall. From the patronage point of view monastic orders that were or still are active in the city will be investigated. Special attention will be paid to Lavantine bishops (particularly to Mihael Napotnik (1889–1922) and to the portraits in the collection in the Maribor diocesan mansion at Betnava), to aristocratic and bourgeois patrons (e.g. to the collection of the Counts of Herbersetin, which was conceived in the second half of the 17th century and is held in the Maribor Regional Museum, and to the family Goedel-Lannoy). Among public monuments special attention will be devoted to the sculptures, created in the statuary symposia Forma viva, as well as to others, connected with historical personalities, such as the Emperor Franz Joseph and Rudolf Maister. In connection to the function of works of art, which is closely linked to the intentions of the patrons and has always been in the service of religion, representation resp. prestige and identity as well as of church- and civil politics, the question of art quality will be exposed. The monuments will be treated in a wider spatial context. More accurately the period of increased building activity in Maribor from the mid- 19th century onwards will be investigated (in the framework of sacral commissions and from the aspect of housing, public-administrative and town-planning issues) which is characterized by predomination of historic styles. The research into the 20th century will concentrate on the modern architecture and urbane regulation of Maribor with a special accent on the working-class architecture that in Maribor reached a high-quality level. In Maribor, which in the 20th century was an economic centre, visual arts and their protagonists had quite a different role than in the formal capitals like Graz and Ljubljana. The project will, on the one hand, deepen and widen the research and link together the relevant existing findings, on the other hand, it will set off research of themes that have so far not been dealt with, in order to fill lacunas and thus enable an integral insight of the character and social dynamics of art in the space of the city of Maribor.
Significance for science
Research into history of art, architecture and urban development of Maribor as the capital of Slovenian Styria had been highly disregarded in comparison with research of Ljubljana. This project enabled a decisive impulse for the comprehensive study of the town and its monuments. Systematic study of archival sources, field work, comparative analyses and other research methods resulted in a number of new findings on individual monuments, artworks, architectures and urban development of the town which were published as scientific articles. New findings and contributions presented at the 2014 conference will be published in 2015, when the project ends.
Significance for the country
The project contributed importantly to the development of university education in the field of art history in Maribor. It widened the understanding of visual art, architecture and urban planning in Maribor among students, citizens and all interested (in cultural) history and development of the town. It is important also for the protection and sustaining of heritage in Maribor. With the web portal www.mariborart.si, a database was made that contributes permanently to the development of culture and tourism in the town. Four expert monographs (Art in the pocket) enriched the offer of publications on Slovenian fine art and architecture.
Most important scientific results Annual report 2011, 2012, 2013, final report, complete report on dLib.si
Most important socioeconomically and culturally relevant results Annual report 2011, 2012, 2013, final report, complete report on dLib.si
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