forschungsbericht november 2008 – juli 2012 - Kunsthistorisches ...

106 | FORSCHUNGEN DES WISSENSCHAFTLICHEN NACHWUCHSES
L’esilio dantesco: dissonanze tra anagogia e politica
Elisa Brilli
Il progetto verte sull'esilio dantesco e offre una nuova comprensione della raffigurazione
della città di Firenze nell'opera di Dante Alighieri. Tre approcci diversi sono coniugati in
prospettiva interdisciplinare: l'analisi della riscrittura della storia cittadina a fronte delle
cronache pre-villaniane; quella dei modelli scritturali e teologici medievali sottesi alla modellizzazione
di Firenze; quella infine della costruzione dell'autorialità dantesca attraverso
l'esperienza dell'esilio. La monografia, Firenze e il profeta. Dante tra teologia e politica, è in
corso di stampa presso l'editore Carocci di Roma (uscita prevista: 11/2012).
Il post-doc rientra nel progetto della direzione Gerhard Wolf: Images and Words in Exile.
Avignon and Italy during the first half of the 14 th century, i cui risultati sono confluiti nell'omonimo
convegno del KHI in collaborazione con il Musée du Petit Palais d'Avignon et l'Université
d'Avignon (07.–11.04.2011). La pubblicazione degli atti presso l'editore SISMEL di
Firenze (insieme a Laura Fenelli e Gerhard Wolf) è prevista nel giugno 2013.
The Canon Under Threat. Objects Without Status and Processes of (De)canonisation
of Middle Eastern Archaeological Finds in 19 th Century Europe
Miriam Brusius
The project investigates the role of travelling objects between the Middle
East and Europe in the mid-19 th century in the context of historical processes
of decanonization and canonization. Taking the excavations of assyrian
and babylonian objects in ancient Mesopotamia as a background,
it looks at the transit of objects between two cultural spaces, that is, the
relationship between Antique objects found at the excavation site and
attempts to shift and incorporate them into European canonical traditions
in Berlin, Paris and London. The historiography of archaeology has
hitherto failed to help us understand how European canons and values
are the result of a complex transfer in which archaeological objects move
from one canonical space to another and due to their undefined and yet versatile potential
– face semantic difficulties during this process. Research on the excavations and their
reception in Europe has mostly drawn a picture of a well-organised, purposive and logical
enterprise in which finding objects and depicting them had a clear purpose. Little attention
has been paid to the fact that the excavated items were initially objects without a clear status,
even once they arrived in Europe. The goal of this project is to show how archaeological
objects came to gain meaning for knowledge production and the formation of canonical
traditions at European museums and universities.
Classifying the bricks from Babylon in
the colonnades of the Alte Nationalgalerie,
1927/1928 © Staatliche
Museen Berlin
The Adaptation of Oriental Shapes, Techniques and Ornamentations
on European Arms and Armour – With an Eye on Cellini and His Time
Filiz Çakır Phillip | Art, Space and Mobility
Despite an often hostile relationship, Europe admired
the arts of the Orient and often adapted its shapes,
techniques and ornaments. In modern scholarship,
these processes were often called ›orientalisation‹.
A figure that in particular fascinated sixteenth-century
Europeans was the Oriental warrior. His light armour
and effective weapons received much military praise,
and their manufacture was a subject of intensive examinations.
Via Venice, knowledge of the Islamic art
of inlay work passed to Tuscan as well as Milanese armourers,
who soon considered themselves superior to
Filippo and Francesco Negroli, Shield,
1541, Steel, gold, and silver, diam.
59,2 cm, Madrid, Real Armeria, Patrimonio
Nacional