Art from the Borders? Wolfgang Fritz Volbach and the
Localization of a Group of Early Christian Ivory Pyxides in the
Caucasus

C 2023

Art from the Borders? Wolfgang Fritz Volbach and the Localization of a Group of Early Christian Ivory Pyxides in the Caucasus

CAMPINI, Ruben

Basic information

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

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Kapitola resp. kapitoly v odborné knize

Field of Study

60401 Arts, Art history

Country of publisher

Belgium

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Publication form

printed version "print"

References:

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

Abstract

V originále

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.

Links

GF21-01706L, research and development project

Name: Kulturní dialogy v Jihokavkazském regionu ve středověku: historiografická a historicko-umělecká perspektiva (Acronym: CIMS)

Investor: Czech Science Foundation, Partner Agency (Switzerland)

Citovat

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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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. \textit{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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