A Battle for Roman Legacy: Teodore's Complex in Aquileia between Italian and Viennese scholarship (1858–1920)

DOLEŽALOVÁ, Klára. A Battle for Roman Legacy: Teodore's Complex in Aquileia between Italian and Viennese scholarship (1858–1920) (A Battle for Roman Legacy: Teodore's Complex in Aquileia between Italian and Viennese Scholarship (1858–1920)). 2023.

Basic information

• Original name: A Battle for Roman Legacy: Teodore's Complex in Aquileia between Italian and Viennese scholarship (1858–1920)
• Name in Czech: Bitva o římské dědictví: Teodorův komplex v Aquileji z pohledu italských a vídeňských badatelů (1858–1920)
• Authors: DOLEŽALOVÁ, Klára.
• Edition: 2023.

Other information

• Original language: English
• Type of outcome: Requested lectures
• Field of Study: 60401 Arts, Art history
• Country of publisher: Finland
• Confidentiality degree: is not subject to a state or trade secret
• Organization unit: Faculty of Arts
• Keywords (in Czech): Aquileia; Santa Maria Assunta; bazilika; Teodor; mozaiky; podlahové mozaiky; křesťanská archeologie; dějiny umění; nacionalismus; historiografie
• Keywords in English: Aquileia; Santa Maria Assunta; basilica; Teodore; mosaics; mosaic pavements; Christian archaeology; art history; nationalism; historiography
• Tags: International impact

Abstract

The lecture, which took place in the framework of the Medieval Seminar at the University of Helsinki, focused on the circumstances of the discovery of the floor mosaics of the so-called Theodore's Complex in Aquileia at the end of the nineteenth century and the events of the First World War, which resulted in a change of local administration in the city. The art-historical and archaeological studies published between 1858 and 1920 were thus seen in the context of this changing socio-political situation: first Aquileia was seen as one of the most important Roman monuments of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, later as a city rightfully returned to the Kingdom of Italy.