CAMPINI, Ruben. Art from the Borders? Wolfgang Fritz Volbach and the Localization of a Group of Early Christian Ivory Pyxides in the Caucasus. In Palladino, Adrien; Campini, Ruben; Moraschi, Annalisa; Foletti, Ivan. Re-Thinking Late Antique Armenia : Historiography, Material Culture, and Heritage. Turnhout: Brepols, 2023, p. 152-167. Convivium Supplementum, 11. ISBN 978-80-280-0306-7. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1484/M.CONVISUP-EB.5.135381.
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Original name Art from the Borders? Wolfgang Fritz Volbach and the Localization of a Group of Early Christian Ivory Pyxides in the Caucasus
Name in Czech Umění od hranic? Wolfgang Fritz Volbach a lokalizace skupiny pozdně antických slonovinových pyxid na Kavkaz
Authors CAMPINI, Ruben (380 Italy, guarantor, belonging to the institution).
Edition Turnhout, Re-Thinking Late Antique Armenia : Historiography, Material Culture, and Heritage, p. 152-167, 16 pp. Convivium Supplementum, 11, 2023.
Publisher Brepols
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Original language English
Type of outcome Chapter(s) of a specialized book
Field of Study 60401 Arts, Art history
Country of publisher Belgium
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
Publication form printed version "print"
WWW URL
RIV identification code RIV/00216224:14210/23:00130910
Organization unit Faculty of Arts
ISBN 978-80-280-0306-7
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1484/M.CONVISUP-EB.5.135381
UT WoS 001004775500009
Keywords in English Caucasus; Early Christian ivories; Ējmiatsin ivory diptych; Late Antiquity; Wolfgang Fritz Volbach
Tags rivok
Tags International impact, Reviewed
Changed by Changed by: Alžběta Filipová, M.A., Ph.D., učo 203468. Changed: 12/3/2024 10:19.
Abstract
What was the thinking behind Wolfgang Fritz Volbach's attribution of a small group of Early Christian ivory pyxides to carvers active in the Caucasus? And does his hypothesis still hold up in the context of recent scholarship? By revisiting Volbach's attribution and its framing into the more general discussions about the localization of the production of late antique ivories that emerged since the second half of the nineteenth century, the present contribution wishes to re-address the question of the potential presence of sites of ivory carving in the Caucasus during Late Antiquity. Without definitive evidence supporting Volbach's proposal, the study of portable objects such as pyxides remains fundamental to de-marginalizing the role of Armenia and the Caucasus in the late antique Mediterranean interactions. Indeed, the finding of pyxides, ampullae, and censers in this area attests at least to their circulation and use, showing that they were not marginal spaces on the periphery of the eastern Roman world but, on the contrary, were actively engaged in its exchanges.
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GF21-01706L, research and development projectName: Kulturní dialogy v Jihokavkazském regionu ve středověku: historiografická a historicko-umělecká perspektiva (Acronym: CIMS)
Investor: Czech Science Foundation, Partner Agency
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