Published by Deutscher Kunstverlag (DKV)

Panofsky-Professur ... am Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte München

Edited by: Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte

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Seit 2016 besteht am Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte in München die internationale Panofsky-Professur. Mit dieser zeichnet das ZI alljährlich eine herausragende Vertreterin, einen herausragenden Vertreter des Faches Kunstgeschichte aus. Die Auszeichnung ist mit einem Aufenthalt am ZI und der Teilnahme am wissenschaftlichen Programm verbunden. In diesen Rahmen fügt sich auch die öffentliche Panofsky Lecture ein, durch die ein Einblick in die aktuelle Forschung der Inhaberin, des Inhabers der Panofsky-Professur gewährt wird. Die Lecture wird in einer zweisprachigen Ausgabe, deutsch und englisch, im Deutschen Kunstverlag publiziert.

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Book Print Only 2019

Piranesi und sein Museum / Piranesi and his Museum

Die Restaurierung der Antike und die Entstehung des Style Empire in einer sich globalisierenden Welt / The restoration of antiquity and the genesis of the empire style in a globalizing world

Caroline van Eck

Volume 2019 in this series

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The development or change of styles is usually considered as a process directed by persons: the artist, the patron, and sometimes intended audience or public. This book offers a different perspective on style formation, taking as a starting point the presence and agency of artefacts. Inspired by recent innovative concepts in archaeology, and psychology, it focuses on the decades around 1800, and reconstructs how the new object scapes that came into being in Rome and Paris, as a result of the massive migration of objects caused by the political upheavals of the period 1789-1815, shaped the formation of Neo-Classicism. The author offers explanations of style formation that go beyond traditional artistic or aesthetic considerations. The laboratory for this investigation is Piranesi's Museo, the artefacts that were created there, and their biographies.

ISBN:: 9783422900004
Subject:: Arts
Subject:: Art Theory
Subject:: Periods
Subject:: 18th Century
Publisher:: Deutscher Kunstverlag (DKV)

Book Print Only 2018

Der Palast von Sans-Souci in Milot, Haiti / The Palace of Sans-Souci in Milot, Haiti

Das vergessene Potsdam im Regenwald / The Untold Story of the Potsdam of the Rainforest

Gauvin Bailey, Ulrich Pfisterer

Volume 2018 in this series

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One of the most mysterious buildings in the Western hemisphere, King Henri Christophe’s lavish neoclassical palace in the rain forest, enthrones the small Haitian town of Milot. Begun less than a decade after the Haitian Revolution for independence (1804) by the first black African king in the Americas, this massive monument was built to showcase Haiti’s power and self-confidence.

Despite its status as UNESCO World Heritage and a tourist attraction, the unusual building has never before been the subject of a study. On the basis of unpublished archival sources and exact photographic documentation, this book is the first to publish detailed information about the genesis this extraordinary architecture and the story of its builder.

ISBN:: 9783422074668
Subject:: Arts
Subject:: Arts, general
Publisher:: Deutscher Kunstverlag (DKV)

Book Print Only 2016

Über einige telepathische Dispositive

Vittore Carpaccios Gemäldezyklus in der Scuola degli Schiavoni in Venedig

Victor Stoichita

Volume 2016 in this series

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Victor Stoichita offers a sensational reinterpretation of one of the most famous and at the same time one of the most enigmatic paintings of the Italian Renaissance – Vittore Carpaccio’s The Vision of St. Augustine. Carpaccio (c. 1465–1525) created the painting in the Scuola degli Schiavoni in Venice at the beginning of the 16th century, as part of an interior design cycle honoring St. Jerome.

Stoichita clarifies how Carpaccio was able to represent a telepathic miracle in the medium of painting, not only by bringing clarity to the complex iconography of the work, but also through a reanalysis of the textual sources and the thick fabric of interconnected ties between the written and painted story. His interpretation of the image also significantly changes the view of its program and the meaning of the painting cycle as a whole. The book was produced in the context of the Panofsky professorship at the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte in Munich, which Victor Stoichita held in 2016.

ISBN:: 9783422073944
Subject:: Arts
Subject:: Arts, general
Publisher:: Deutscher Kunstverlag (DKV)

Book Print Only 2022

Watteau – kolonial

Herrschaft, Handel und Galanterie im Frankreich des Régence

Charlotte Guichard, Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte

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What were the early visions of Empire in Regency France? The book offers a interpretation of Jean-Antoine Watteau’s Pilgrimage to the Isle of Cythera (1717) by framing it in the context of French colonial expansion in the years of the Regency. Born in Louis XIV’s reign, galant aesthetics contributed to frame the colonial encounter in French America. Fantasies of maritime departure, embarkation and/or debarkation, also expressed a longing for colonial travel and exploration. The imperial imagination fueled with codes of galanterie was very developed in the circles of Watteau’s amateurs. From Watteau’s Pilgrimage to the Isle of Cythera (1717) to its visual reenactment in 1763, the book argues that galanterie served as a visual and conceptual model of French commercial and colonial relations.

Quelles furent les premières visions de l’Empire dans la France de la Régence ? Cet ouvrage propose une interprétation nouvelle du Pèlerinage à l’île de Cythère (1717) de Jean-Antoine Watteau en le replaçant dans le contexte de l’expansion coloniale française des années de la Régence. Née sous le règne et l’imperium de Louis XIV, l’esthétique galante a contribué à donner une forme visuelle à la rencontre coloniale en Amérique française. Les motifs du débarquement, de l’embarquement et du voyage maritime, essentiels dans ce tableau, exprimaient également un désir de voyage et de conquête. L’imaginaire impérial, alimenté par les codes de la galanterie était très développé dans les cercles des commanditaires de Watteau, eux-mêmes proches des cercles des Modernes, qui défendaient de nouvelles formes esthétiques en art et en littérature. Du Pèlerinage à l’île de Cythère (1717) de Watteau à son remploi visuel en 1763 dans une vue d’optique, le livre soutient que la galanterie servit comme ressource formelle au développement de l’imaginaire colonial français.

ISBN:: 9783422990463
Subject:: Arts
Subject:: Arts, general
Subject:: Periods
Subject:: 18th Century
Publisher:: Deutscher Kunstverlag (DKV)