The Upper Waters in Christian Cosmology, Between Historiography
and Materiality Tribute to Andrej N. Grabar

p 2019

The Upper Waters in Christian Cosmology, Between Historiography and Materiality Tribute to Andrej N. Grabar

FOLETTI, Ivan a Adrien PALLADINO

Základní údaje

Originální název

The Upper Waters in Christian Cosmology, Between Historiography and Materiality Tribute to Andrej N. Grabar

Autoři

FOLETTI, Ivan (203 Česká republika, garant, domácí) a Adrien PALLADINO (250 Francie, domácí)

Vydání

Air and Heavens in the Hierotopy and Iconography of the Christian World, 11 – 13 September 2019, Moscow, 2019

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Vyžádané přednášky

Obor

60401 Arts, Art history

Stát vydavatele

Rusko

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Odkazy

URL

Kód RIV

RIV/00216224:14210/19:00107677

Organizační jednotka

Filozofická fakulta

Klíčová slova anglicky

Historiography; André Grabar; Upper Waters; Late Antique Mosaics; Santa Costanza; Liminality

Štítky

rivok

Změněno: 22. 5. 2024 11:00, Alžběta Filipová, M.A., Ph.D.

Anotace

V originále

In 1957, André Grabar dedicated a seminal paper (La mer céleste dans l’iconographie carolingienne et romane) to mosaic decorations in the early Middle Ages, from Santa Costanza (4th century) to Santa Maria Maggiore (13th century), through manuscript illumination. In the analyzed mosaic decorations are represented, in the lower part, large bodies of water. The latter are full of life: small fish, birds, fishermen, are represented in these waters. As Grabar noted, this apparently very pagan iconographies, reminding Roman nymphea, are often present under theophanic images or below representations of the Heavenly spheres. Grabar concluded from these remarks that while being so full of antique memory, the function of the lower waters was to represent a physical and metaphorical division between the human world and the divine sphere. This concept was a widespread belief in Christian cosmology. Starting from this paper, we would like to investigate on the one hand the methodology of Grabar and the reason why, at that very point of his biography, he dedicated his research to this topic. On the other hand, we intend to propose a more complex reflexion about visual, physical, and perfomative barriers created in order to permit the access to the Heavenly vision within the sacred space of hierotopy of Late Antiquity. As we will try to demonstrate, Grabar’s proposition has indeed to be enlarged in a more complex scheme. The final step of our paper will then be to understand the part of the historicity in elaborating intellectual and art historical patterns.

Návaznosti

GA18-20666S, projekt VaV

Název: Kondakovovo dědictví, Byzance a emigrace (André Grabar a Seminarium Kondakovianum) (Akronym: HNK)

Investor: Grantová agentura ČR, The Heritage of Nikodim P. Kondakov in the Experiences of André Grabar and the Seminarium Kondakovianum

Citovat

FOLETTI, Ivan a Adrien PALLADINO. The Upper Waters in Christian Cosmology, Between Historiography and Materiality Tribute to Andrej N. Grabar. In Air and Heavens in the Hierotopy and Iconography of the Christian World, 11 – 13 September 2019, Moscow. 2019.

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FOLETTI, Ivan a Adrien PALLADINO. The Upper Waters in Christian Cosmology, Between Historiography and Materiality Tribute to Andrej N. Grabar. In \textit{Air and Heavens in the Hierotopy and Iconography of the Christian World, 11 – 13 September 2019, Moscow}. 2019.

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