Byzance à Conques? An Unrealized Dream of “Neo-Byzantine”
Architecture in Nineteenth-Century France

C 2023

Byzance à Conques? An Unrealized Dream of “Neo-Byzantine” Architecture in Nineteenth-Century France

PALLADINO, Adrien

Basic information

Original name

Byzance à Conques? An Unrealized Dream of “Neo-Byzantine” Architecture in Nineteenth-Century France

Authors

PALLADINO, Adrien (250 France, guarantor, belonging to the institution)

Edition

Turnhout, Contextualizing Conques : Imaginaries, Narratives and Geographies, p. 20-41, 22 pp. Convivium Supplementum, 13, 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:

page of the volume at Brepols

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14210/23:00132319

Organization unit

Faculty of Arts

ISBN

978-80-280-0425-5

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.1484/M.CONVISUP-EB.5.137359

UT WoS

001158126400005

Keywords in English

Byzantine; historicism in architecture; Neo-Byzantine; nineteenth-century; restorations; Romano- Byzantine; Romanesque; Second Empire; Third Republic

Abstract

V originále

Taking as starting point an unrealized project for Conques by Jean- Camille Formigé, the architect of the abbey-church’s restorations in the 1870s–1880s, this paper explores the broader theories and practices of historicist restoration and building projects between the 1840s and the end of the nineteenth century. By looking firstly at the theorical frame in which the concepts of “Byzantine”, “Neo-Byzantine”, “Romano- Byzantine” and “Romanesque” were fabricated, and by then examining some of the most important monuments of historicist architecture (such as Saint-Front in Périgueux, the Sacré-Coeur), I aim to uncover the impact of these terms and their role in the reinvention of medieval art as well as in the formulation of racist, colonial, and national myths in modern art history. In these crucial years for the development of the discipline of art history but also for the formation of a French national identity, the role of the “Romano-Byzantine”and “Byzantine”styles reveals a tension at the intersection of religious revival, orientalist art history, and trans-Mediterranean – and perhaps also colonial – desires.

Links

101007770, interní kód MU

Name: Conques in the Global World. Transferring Knowledge: from Material to Immaterial Heritage (Acronym: Conques)

Investor: European Union, MSCA Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (Excellent Science)

Citovat

PALLADINO, Adrien. Byzance à Conques? An Unrealized Dream of “Neo-Byzantine” Architecture in Nineteenth-Century France. In Foletti, Ivan; Hahn, Cynthia; Racaniello, Kris N.; Voyer, Cécile; Palladino, Adrien. Contextualizing Conques : Imaginaries, Narratives and Geographies. Turnhout: Brepols, 2023, p. 20-41. Convivium Supplementum, 13. ISBN 978-80-280-0425-5. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1484/M.CONVISUP-EB.5.137359.

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PALLADINO, Adrien. Byzance à Conques? An Unrealized Dream of “Neo-Byzantine” Architecture in Nineteenth-Century France. In Foletti, Ivan; Hahn, Cynthia; Racaniello, Kris N.; Voyer, Cécile; Palladino, Adrien. \textit{Contextualizing Conques : Imaginaries, Narratives and Geographies}. Turnhout: Brepols, 2023, p.~20-41. Convivium Supplementum, 13. ISBN~978-80-280-0425-5. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1484/M.CONVISUP-EB.5.137359.

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