Migrating Art Historians on the Sacred Ways

FOLETTI, Ivan, Adrien PALLADINO, Katarína KRAVČÍKOVÁ and Sabina ROSENBERGOVÁ. Migrating Art Historians on the Sacred Ways. Řím: Viella, 2018, 468 pp. Convivia 2. ISBN 978-88-331-3105-4.

Basic information

• Original name: Migrating Art Historians on the Sacred Ways
• Authors: FOLETTI, Ivan (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution), Adrien PALLADINO (250 France, belonging to the institution), Katarína KRAVČÍKOVÁ (703 Slovakia, belonging to the institution) and Sabina ROSENBERGOVÁ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution).
• Edition: Řím, 468 pp. Convivia 2, 2018.
• Publisher: Viella

Other information

• Original language: English
• Type of outcome: Editorship of professional books
• Field of Study: 60401 Arts, Art history
• Country of publisher: Italy
• Confidentiality degree: is not subject to a state or trade secret
• Publication form: printed version "print"
• WWW: URL
• RIV identification code: RIV/00216224:14210/18:00104975
• Organization unit: Faculty of Arts
• ISBN: 978-88-331-3105-4
• Keywords in English: Migrating Art Historians; Medieval Pilgrimage; Embodied Experience; Pilgrimage Art; Medieval France; Iconic Presence; Spiritual Seeing; Art as Experience
• Tags: rivok

Abstract

Is it possible to reconstruct the feeling of a medieval pilgrim walking towards the sacred? No, it is not. And yet, the experimental project Migrating Art Historians sought to delve into this impossibility. Journeying by foot over more than 1500km, twelve modern pilgrims – students and scholars from Masaryk University – reached some of the most impressive artistic monuments of medieval France.One year later, this book presents their intellectual, human, and art historical theoretical know-how, transformed by the experience of their bodies. In this context, exhausted and activated bodies became instruments asking new questions to medieval artworks and sources. Structured as a walk along pilgrimage routes, this book presents firstly the landscape, followed by liminal zones, before leading the reader inside medieval churches and ultimately towards the sacred. Original scientific art historical research combines with personal engagement. What emerges is the subject confronted with the experience of medieval art.

Links

• MUNI/E/1326/2017, interní kód MU: Name: Migrating Art Historians on the Sacred Way (Acronym: MAH)

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