forschungsbericht november 2008 – juli 2012 - Kunsthistorisches ...

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The Transformation of Neighboring Artistic Languages in the Miniature of the
Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia during the Last Decades of the 13 th Century
Satenik Chookaszian | Art, Space and Mobility
Second Canon table of Cilician Gospel,
13 th century, Yerevan (Armenia),
Matenadaran N. 9422
The richly illustrated Gospel No. 9422 of Matenadaran has
long been considered one of the best examples of royal
Cilician Armenian patronage of the late thirteenth century.
The project examines encounters between Eastern and
Western art in the analysis of the miniatures of the manuscript.
In particular, it focuses on the opening series of images
which accompany the Canon tables and gather a great
variety of imported motifs. The successful synthesis of extraneous
elements resulted in a unique graphic idiom. By
investigating the connections between Byzantine and Italian
painting in the Canon tables as well as considering parallel
developments in related Byzanto-Italian productions, for example in icons preserved
in the Monastery of St. Catherine at Mount Sinai, this study aims to highlight the network
of cross-cultural relations in which Armenian art participated.
Corpus of Images of the Prophet Muhammad in Manuscripts and Frescos,
c. 1100–1500
Heather Coffey | Crossing Boundaries, Creating Images: In Search of the Prophet Muhammad in
Literary and Visual Traditions
Master Vitae Imperatorum, Inferno
XVIII of the Divina Commedia, Lombard,
ca. 1440, Paris, B.N. it. 2017,
366r
After continuous scholarly neglect, newly-found representations
of the Prophet Muhammad continue to surface in public
archives, museums, and private collections, ensuring that the
known corpus of images of the Prophet is steadily expanding.
Over seventy surviving images of the Prophet in manuscripts
made in European scriptoria have been identified. These images
are interpolated into a range of texts, including biblical exegeses,
apocalyptic commentaries, universal chronicles, and polemical
biographies. Select pictorial examples also appear in stained
glass and large-scale fresco paintings. Research completed at the
Kunsthistorisches Institut between 2009 and 2011 facilitated the
authorship of a database of images of the Prophet produced in
Christian Europe, in conjunction with my doctoral dissertation (submitted to the School
of Graduate Studies at Indiana University in 2012). My dissertation, entitled Images of the
Prophet Muhammad in the Late Medieval West: From Joachim of Fiore to Dante Alighieri, examines
a pejorative rendering of the Prophet Muhammad, and of Islam, in a collection of painted
picto-diagrams produced in a monastic context in Calabria, Italy, c. 1220.
Alessandro Turchi 1578–1649
Davide Dossi | MaxNetAging
Im Zentrum des Dissertationsprojektes steht der aus Verona stammende Maler Alessandro
Turchi (Verona, 1578 – Rom, 1649). Zu seinem Werk, das erst seit kürzerer Zeit kunsthistorische
Beachtung findet, möchte es auf mehrfache Weise einen Forschungsbeitrag
leisten: zum einen hinsichtlich einer Rekonstruktion der italienischen Marktbedingungen
der damaligen Zeit sowie Turchis Beitrag zur Ästhetik der Barockmalerei, und zum anderen
zur Frage der Technik und der Materialien Turchis im Verhältnis zu seinem Alter
und den Städten, in denen er tätig war. Dementsprechend ist die Dissertation in drei Teile
gegliedert, wobei sich der erste dem Netz von Auftraggebern und Förderern von Turchi
widmet. Hierfür wurden zahlreiche Dokumente analysiert, anhand derer gezeigt werden