C 2023

Fragmentation as a Visual Principle : From Cloisonné to Early Stained Glass

VIRDIS, Alberto

Basic information

Original name

Fragmentation as a Visual Principle : From Cloisonné to Early Stained Glass

Authors

VIRDIS, Alberto (380 Italy, guarantor, belonging to the institution)

Edition

1. vyd. Turnhout, A Radical Turn? Reappropriation, Fragmentation, and Variety in the Postclassical World (3rd-8th c.), p. 78-97, 20 pp. Convivium Supplementum, 10, 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:

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14210/23:00132684

Organization unit

Faculty of Arts

ISBN

978-80-280-0188-9

DOI

Keywords in English

cloisonné jewelry; early medieval aesthetics; early medieval art; exegesis; fragmentation; late antique art; late antique Latin literature; mosaic; opus sectile; stained glass; theology; transmediality

Tags

Tags

International impact, Reviewed
Změněno: 10/5/2024 11:00, Mgr. Kateřina Rajsová

Abstract

V originále

From archaeological and literary study, the origins of stained glass can be placed at a hitherto unspecified time between Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages. The absence of early medieval stained-glass windows in situ has recently been offset by a greater number of archaeological finds of stained-glass fragments dating, for the most part, to the seventh and eighth centuries ce. Precursors have often been identified in glass opus sectile compositions, imitating the marble sectilia widely seen in the Roman world. As an emerging medium, however – though possibly inspired by Mediterranean practices – stained glass surpassed its models. The new medium had to come up with a new aesthetic, one rooted in anticlassical traditions and expressed in artistic media such as enamels and cloisonné jewelry-making, that enhanced light and color. The article examines the emergence of stained glass in relation to the interactions of classical and anticlassical traditions, the diffusion of old and new media and techniques in a (no longer?) globalized late antique world. Parallels can also be drawn with literary writings by Sidonius Apollinaris, Gregory of Tours, and Venantius Fortunatus, as well as with the so-called Hisperic aesthetics and literature and early medieval theology and exegesis.

Links

CZ.02.2.69/0.0/0.0/20_079/0017045, interní kód MU
(CEP code: EF20_079/0017045)
Name: MSCAfellow4@MUNI
Investor: Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the CR, Priority axis 2: Development of universities and human resources for research and development
EF17_050/0008496, research and development project
Name: MSCAfellow@MUNI