De-marginalizing Byzantium : Venice Dialogues

FOLETTI, Ivan and Bergmeier ARMIN. De-marginalizing Byzantium : Venice Dialogues. 2019.

Basic information

• Original name: De-marginalizing Byzantium : Venice Dialogues
• Authors: FOLETTI, Ivan (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution) and Bergmeier ARMIN.
• Edition: 2019.

Other information

• Original language: English
• Type of outcome: Organization of a workshop
• Field of Study: 60401 Arts, Art history
• Country of publisher: Italy
• Confidentiality degree: is not subject to a state or trade secret
• WWW: URL
• RIV identification code: RIV/00216224:14210/19:00107877
• Organization unit: Faculty of Arts
• Keywords in English: Byzantium; Historiography; Marginalization; Art History; History
• Tags: rivok

Abstract

The workshop will explore the question of why Byzantium was and keeps being marginalized within the western academic canon and to a lesser extent in the public discourse. Instead of resurrecting the 19 th and early 20 th century academic debate known as the “Byzantine question” (“Byzantinische Frage”), this workshop examines the historiographical mechanisms and turning points that resulted in the marginalization of Byzantium in art history and related fields. In an atempt to move past pinpointing single moments of “influence” from Byzantium to the West, the workshop asks why the one hundred-year search to answer the “Byzantine question” was unsuccessful, failing to secure a prominent place for the Eastern Roman Empire within art historical teaching and scholarship. Building on these insights, the workshop will delve into practical aspects, seeking possible places for Byzantium after the end of a linear, chronological art historical canon as described by Hans Belting (Das Ende der Kunstgeschichte: Eine Revision nach 10 Jahren) and others. The talks will focus on historiography and scholarly networks, on questions of collecting, artistic production, national and supranational political thought, and on Byzantium’s place within the boundaries of modern academic disciplines.

Links

• GA18-20666S, research and development project: Name: Kondakovovo dědictví, Byzance a emigrace (André Grabar a Seminarium Kondakovianum) (Acronym: HNK)

Investor: Czech Science Foundation