Researching a Fourth-Century Ivory Casket and Why it Matters: Research Questions and Methodological Approaches

PALLADINO, Adrien; Catharina BLÄNSDORF a Esther WIPFLER. Researching a Fourth-Century Ivory Casket and Why it Matters: Research Questions and Methodological Approaches. In Workshop – The Brescia Casket: An Exemplary Object Biography between Art History, Technical Art History, and Reception History, Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, Munich. 2025.

Základní údaje

Originální název

Researching a Fourth-Century Ivory Casket and Why it Matters: Research Questions and Methodological Approaches

Autoři

PALLADINO, Adrien; Catharina BLÄNSDORF a Esther WIPFLER

Vydání

Workshop – The Brescia Casket: An Exemplary Object Biography between Art History, Technical Art History, and Reception History, Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, Munich, 2025

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Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Prezentace na konferencích

Obor

60401 Arts, Art history

Stát vydavatele

Německo

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Odkazy

website of workshop

Označené pro přenos do RIV

Ne

Organizační jednotka

Filozofická fakulta

Klíčová slova anglicky

historiography; research questions; art history; ivory carving; iconography; exhibition history

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Anotace

V originále

This introduction to the workshop describes how the research project on the Brescia emerged from the convergence of several scholarly traditions—ranging from a more classical art historical perspective to approaches that emphasize historiography, materiality, and the technical history of construction. From the outset, the research team thus embraced a methodology that combines both art history and the history of artistic techniques which had yielded impressive results for the Boethius Diptych. There was no guarantee that such approach could be replicated on the Brescia casket. The interdisciplinary approach, however, quickly proved essential for moving beyond a research tradition shaped not only by the material history of the casket, but also by the ways in which it has been studied since the second half of the nineteenth century. For instance, from the very beginning of modern scholarship on the artifact, identifying the individual scenes and linking them to written texts took precedence—an approach that, until quite recently, largely eclipsed questions of the casket’s function and its material properties.