This thesis looks into the analysis of iconography of the northern lateral portal of the Church of Our Lady before Týn. For this purpose this thesis summarizes the most important historiographical, Artististic Science and source literature related to this relic. Based on researched iconographic analysis this thesis aids to propose all possible solutions iconographic programme which could have been intended for this thesis. Based on the evaluation of literature, sources and on the formal analysis principal the objective of this thesis is to specify significantly problematic dating range (approximately from mid. 13th century up to late 1450) to shorter period of possible origin of the artwork there are also evaluated all available restauration reports and construction historical surveys related to the inspected relic.

The work The Image of Jan Hus in the Early Modern Czech Literature tries to map different ways of description of this Czech preacher in selected literary texts from 15th to 18th century, to capture the changes which his image underwent. The chosen authors come from different countries and use different languages, represent different environments, social classes and opinion groups, they also have different education and religion. Individual literary works were assessedby means of comparing the key episodes that are either repeated in the texts, or the author intentionally did not use them. To understand the image of Jan Hus as a whole, also contemporary iconography was taken into account , which in some cases has been taken from other literary texts than those which were compared, so that the image of Hus whereas complete as possible. The comparison of the texts and iconography showed, how accurate the observation of the described scheme was and how the image of Jan Hus was gradually changing. The combination of written and iconographic material from specific time intervals allowed us to observe the gradual change of conceptions of the personality of Jan Hus and events connected with him, because the authors represent the opinion of their ethnic group and time. The image of Jan Hus is therefore very...

La sagesse politique est de faire vivre un gouvernement libre, et une puissance armée. Etude portant sur l'organisation de la force armée dans la pensée constitutionnelle, et son action dans la pensée politique depuis l'an III (1795) à 1962, sur une période de 167 ans, sa déclinaison dans l'iconographie politique, à l'aune de la politique, portant sur les dix régimes politiques- souverains et républicains - au travers des guerres et évènements sociétaux. La conclusion rappelle l'obéissance des armées au pouvoir civil pour la période considérée, une interaction du politique et des armées et ouvre une perspective nouvelle, dans la relation politique-armées, exposant un aperçu sur les grandes puissances économiques, dans leurs rapports politique-armées. / Political wisdom is to live a free government, and military power. Study on the organization of armed force in the constitutional thought, and action in political thought since the year III (1795) to 1962, over 167 years, its variation in the political iconography to yardstick of politics, on the ten-political sovereign and republican regimes - through wars and societal events. The conclusion reminds the obedience of armies of the civil power for the period, an interaction of political and armed and opens a new perspective in the political-military relationship, exposing an overview of the major economic powers in their relations policy-armies.

In recent years, research on the field of ancient Egyptian economy in its earliest historical forms has grown quickly. Despite previous efforts in the last decades, the nature of the ancient Egyptian economic system has not yet been satisfactorily defined. Ancient Egypt had, like the majority of preindustrial societies, a pre-eminently agrarian economy. Amongst the agricultural products acquired from the Egyptian land, cereals stood out due to their economic significance. Grain and cereal-based products, such as bread and beer, were used as a medium of exchange and a basis for wages. The aforementioned importance of cereals must have made their management and storage a matter of priority. The storage of food staples is always of utmost importance as it is a key component of food distribution, which is an important means of executing power and accomplishing the goals by specific actors in a system (Paulette 2013: 106). Despite the significance of grain storage for the understanding of socio-economic and power relations in a given society, no comprehensive macro-study on grain storage in ancient Egypt has been undertaken. Thus, the main goal of this work is to obtain a new multi-faceted picture of grain storage in ancient Egypt. More precisely, the study focuses on an extensive historical span...

Ausgehend von der Fragestellung, wie es möglich ist, dass der Körper durch bestimmte Erscheinungen und Handlungen zur Ressource visueller Kommunikation im Protest wird, leistet die vorliegende Dissertation zwei innovative Forschungsbeiträge: Zum einen wird die Rolle des Körpers in der Interaktionsordnung kollektiven Handelns theoretisch aufgearbeitet. Damit werden zwei miteinander verwobene Lücken im Bereich der Protest- und Bewegungsforschung adressiert: Die unzureichende Auseinandersetzung mit visuellen Aspekten der Aktivität sozialer Bewegungen und die, trotz einiger Aufmerksamkeit für soziale Inszenierung, weitgehende Ausblendung der Rolle des Körpers bei der Betrachtung von Bewegungshandeln. Zum anderen wird auf Grundlage der theoretischen Erkenntnisse eine Methodologie entwickelt, die sich besonders für die Erforschung von Körperlichkeit in Verbindung mit den Interaktionsdynamiken im Protest eignet. Den Körper operationalisiere ich als Visualisierungsmedium im Konzept des Bild-Körpers mit Anleihen bei der Bild- und Drama-Theorie. Die empirische Analyse von Videomaterial zu den Anti-Castor-Protesten in der Region Wendland (Deutschland) des Jahres 2008 zeigte, dass der Körper als Symbolträger in Mikrodramen - kurzen dramatischen Interaktionsfolgen - in Erscheinung tritt, über die der Protest selbst zum mobilisierenden Ereignis wird. Durch Mikrodramen werden die Akteure unmittelbar mit den Narrativen und Master-Frames des Protests verbunden. Der sonst rhetorische Konflikt zwischen Aktivisten und Protestadressaten wird physisch manifest in Zeit und Raum. Die Verkörperung normativ geladener Konstellationen von antagonistischen Charakteren ist dabei ein wesentliches Moment. Die notwendige Spannung wird durch die Kompositionen der Bild-Körper vor allem im Sinnbild der Grenzverletzung konstruiert, worin der Angriff und die Verteidigung des Körpers eine Verbindung zu den emotionalen Konstruktionen der Würde und des Anstands herstellen. / By asking how the human body becomes a crucial resource of visual communication in protest, this research advances scholarship in two main ways. First, I theorize the role of the body in terms of its appearances and actions, and in relation to collective action. Despite some scholarship attending to performative politics, this inquiry addresses several gaps in the theorizing about social movements such as the visual and embodied aspects of protest. Second, to anchor my theorization of the socially and physically situated body, I develop a methodology for researching corporality in association with protest interaction dynamics. I identify and conceptualize the body as a medium of visualization, which I call the pictorial body. Linking the pictorial body concept to the interface between scripts, narratives, and genres (SNG complex) lends the analyses to accounts of visual and dramaturgical theory. Empirically, I use original video data of the 2008 Anti-Castor protest campaign in Germany's Wendland. Findings show that the pictorial body is a primary carrier of symbolism in protest micro-dramas - short dramatic interaction episodes between challengers, targets, and third parties. As the most proximate medium, corporeal mobilizing experience - the call for action - can be treated as an outcome of protest action rather than only as a precondition. I argue that the embodied nature of micro-dramas during protest directly connects actors to movement narratives and master frames by making physically manifest in both space and time what is otherwise a rhetorical conflict. The embodiment of normatively framed constellations of antagonist characters is essential to this. More specifically, a conflictual relationship was crafted primarily by the composition of pictorial bodies in images of border violations, in which the attack and defense of the body connects to the emotionalizing constructs of dignity and decency.

À la charnière entre les XIXe et XXe siècles, alors que la question de l’identité nationale se pose avec acuité en Espagne, la guitare y est à maintes reprises évoquée comme « l’instrument national ». Ce lieu commun se révèle finalement être un symbole paradoxal d’une identité encore en débat. Tandis que le cliché caricature la réalité en la simplifiant, les pratiques de la guitare se diversifient au contraire pendant la Restauration, en raison des transformations techniques de l’instrument et de l’évolution de la musique populaire, classique et flamenca. La composition en 1920 par Manuel de Falla de la première pièce pour guitare soliste (Hommage à Debussy) et l’organisation du Premier Concours de Cante Jondo à Grenade en 1922 attestent la progressive reconnaissance de l’instrument. Pourtant, la multiplication des imprimés, favorisée par la loi de liberté de la presse (1883), donne lieu à de nombreuses représentations littéraires et plastiques de la guitare qui ne reflètent pas fidèlement ces mutations. Elles mettent surtout en lumière son caractère populaire, andalou, voire flamenco, et sa capacité à imprégner l’imaginaire. Publiées dans des périodiques andalous ou madrilènes, ces œuvres influencent la réception de l’instrument : celui-ci est à la fois apprécié par un public de plus en plus large, méconnu car il est absent des musées et des institutions, et rejeté selon des critères sociaux et moraux en raison de sa présence dans des lieux décriés. Pourtant, même lorsque le stéréotype est contesté, la guitare revêt une dimension symbolique originale, ancrée dans le quotidien, qui se manifeste à travers l’émotion qu’elle suscite. / During the transition from the nineteenth to the twentieth centuries, when the question of national identity is continuing to develop in Spain, the guitar is repeatedly mentioned as the “national instrument”. This platitude ultimately proves to be a paradoxical symbol of an identity that is still under debate during this period. While stereotypical descriptions caricature the reality by oversimplifying it, on the contrary, guitar practices diversify during the Restoration, because of technical changes in the instrument and the evolution of folk, classical and flamenco music. The composition in 1920 by Manuel de Falla of the first piece for solo guitar (Homenaje a Debussy) and the organization of the First Contest of the Cante Jondo in Granada in 1922 testify to the gradual recognition of the instrument. Yet the proliferation of printed matter, favored by the freedom of the press law (1883), gives rise to numerous literary and visual representations of the guitar that do not accurately reflect these changes. They mostly bring out its popular, Andalusian and even flamenco character, and its ability to impregnate the imagination. Published in periodicals in Madrid or Andalusia, these works influence the reception of the instrument: it is both appreciated by an increasingly wide audience, disregarded for being absent from museums and institutions, and rejected by social and moral standards because of its presence in decried places. Yet, even when this stereotype is disputed, the guitar takes on an original symbolic dimension, rooted in everyday life, which manifests itself through the emotions it provokes. / En la bisagra entre los siglos XIX y XX, cuando la cuestión de la identidad nacional se planteaba con intensidad en España, se aludió muchas veces a la guitarra como el “instrumento nacional”. Este lugar común aparece como un símbolo paradójico de una identidad todavía en debate. Mientras que el cliché caricaturiza la realidad simplificándola, las prácticas de la guitarra, por el contrario, se diversificaron durante la Restauración, debido a las transformaciones técnicas del instrumento y a la evolución de la música popular, clásica y flamenca. La composición en 1920 por Manuel de Falla de la primera obra para una guitarra solista (Homenaje a Debussy) y la organización del Primer Concurso de Cante Jondo en Granada en 1922 dan fe del progresivo reconocimiento del instrumento. Sin embargo, la multiplicación de los impresos, favorecida por la Ley de Policía de Imprenta (1883), dio lugar a numerosas representaciones literarias y plásticas de la guitarra que no reflejaban fielmente esas mutaciones, sino que destacaban, sobre todo, su carácter popular, andaluz e incluso flamenco, y su capacidad de impregnar todo el imaginario colectivo español. Publicadas en periódicos andaluces o madrileños, estas obras influyeron en la recepción del instrumento que, apreciado por un público cada vez más amplio, resultaba también desconocido, por su ausencia en museos e instituciones, al mismo tiempo que era rechazado según criterios sociales y morales por su presencia en lugares considerados deshonrosos. No obstante, incluso cuando se critica el estereotipo, la guitarra posee una dimensión simbólica, enraizada en lo cotidiano, que se manifiesta a través de la emoción que suscita.

Die vorliegende Arbeit stellt für die Bildwissenschaften eine methodische Grundlage dar, Kleidung im Bild als Konstruktion zu begreifen und zu interpretieren. Anhand der eindrucksvollen Patronageprojekte der Familie Tornabuoni – einer gerade emporgestiegenen Kaufmannsfamilie im Umkreis der Medici – werden die Möglichkeiten und Grenzen von symbolischer Kommunikation in der Florentiner Frühneuzeit untersucht. Unter anderem über Symbole wurde die Position im Gesellschaftsgefüge des unsicheren frühneuzeitlichen Regierungsklimas immer wieder neu hergestellt und von Neuem ausgehandelt. Die gewählte Bildgarderobe ist dafür ein hervorstechendes Beispiel. / The thesis presents an art historical methodology that assesses clothing and its pictorial representations in order to interpret how material culture relates to social construction. Using as an example an impressive patronage project of the Tornabuoni family – a newly rich family of merchants in the circle of the Medici – reveals the possibilities as well as the limitations of symbolic communication through dress in early modern Florence. In addition to outward style, these subtle symbols helped to establish and renegotiate their bearer’s position in the shifting hierarchy of an uncertain political climate. By closely examining Tornabuoni commissions, the thesis demonstrates how clothing is a critical means of understanding social motivations and aspirations.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-27T19:31:30Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 HIS - Rodolfo J Hessel.pdf: 20828599 bytes, checksum: 6934781ae98f359a38beedd3868d1b01 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006-11-10 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / The dissertation has as main proposal, to analyze as the iconography monçoeira was adapted by a political elite and learned inhabitant from São Paulo, a project idealize begun with the objective of executing São Paulo as the largest responsible for the formation of the Brazilian nation, creating for that the idealize pioneer in the end of the century XIX and beginning of the XX. The Monções interfere in that project, because they appear as one of the ideological supports for it implementation, mainly, for being a fluvial road that it was derived of a road used by the pioneers in the century XVIII, until becoming a commercial route that linked Porto Feliz to the gold mines of Cuiabá in a long and difficult trip. The largest implementation of that whole construction iconographic was it then director of the Museum From São Paulo Afonso de Taunay, that was used of a great visual apparatus as pedagogic instrument before the population, his writing and his contusing rhetoric served as support in that process, it was during his administration that several pictures were ordered and formed a room dedicated to the Monções. The image, of this sorts things out, it comes as source of inclusion multidiscipline that dialogues, above all, with a produced textual narrative. This way, it intends to interpret and to analyze the use of the images of the Monções, for an elite from São Paulo, with the support of the public patronage for the construction of a speech nationalism and ideologic. The research emphasizes the importance of a historical moment and it relationship with the history from São Paulo and the national, identifying the point of prominence of that expansionist movement and its connection with an elitist process, that it aimed at to put São Paulo instead of prominence before the remaining of the country / A dissertação tem como proposta principal, analisar como a iconografia monçoeira foi apropriada por uma elite política e letrada paulista, um projeto idealizador encetado com o objetivo de efetivar São Paulo como o maior responsável pela formação da nação brasileira, criando para isso o ideário bandeirante no final do século XIX e início do XX. As Monções inserem-se nesse projeto, pois surgem como um dos suportes ideológicos para sua implementação, principalmente, por ser um caminho fluvial que derivou-se de um caminho utilizado pelos bandeirantes no século XVIII, até se tornar uma rota comercial que ligava Porto Feliz às minas de ouro de Cuiabá em uma longa e difícil viagem. O maior implementador de toda essa construção iconográfica foi o então diretor do Museu Paulista Afonso de Taunay, que utilizou-se de um grande aparato visual como instrumento pedagógico perante a população, sua escrita e sua retórica contundente serviram de apoio nesse processo, foi durante sua gestão que diversos quadros foram encomendados e formada uma sala dedicada às Monções. A imagem, desta maneira, se apresenta como fonte de abrangência multidisciplinar que dialoga, sobretudo, com uma narrativa textual produzida. Deste modo, pretende-se interpretar e analisar a utilização das imagens das Monções, por uma elite paulista, com o apoio do mecenato público para a construção de um discurso ufanista e ideológico. A pesquisa ressalta a importância de um momento histórico e sua relação com a história paulista e a nacional, identificando o papel de destaque desse movimento expansionista e sua ligação com um processo elitista, que objetivava colocar São Paulo em lugar de destaque perante o restante do país

La thèse traite du catholicisme en Basse-Bretagne, du début du 19è siècle à nos jours, à travers l'étude des bannières de procession présentes dans les églises du diocèse de Quimper et Léon , soit le département du Finistère. Les quatre parties s'organisent autour de la production des bannières, de leur comptage à partir des différents types d'inventaires disponibles, des piétés qu'elles mettent en évidence, voire des évolutions sociales dont elles témoignent.L'approche est quantitative et qualitative. Cela implique une visite systématique des églises et la conservation de traces photographiques de toutes leurs bannières. Il est fait appel aux sources classiques que sont les rapports des visites canoniques et à d'autres qui le sont moins, comme les inventaires de 1906.L'étude de la vie de deux paroisses, un doyenné datant du concordat et une anciennne ville épiscopale, a permis de mettre en évidence les mobiles générateurs de l'acquisition de bannières. Si les bannières paroissiales sont de règle, les bannières de congrégations témoignent du dynamisme des groupes de piété et de leur évolution au fil des siècles.Des approches quantitatives permettent de proposer une hypothèse de riposte, par bannières interposées, à la politique des lois laïques, parallèlement aux évolutions sociales.Si l'iconographie montre une influence lointaine des arts, c'est surtout l'importance du négoce qui apparaît, laissant cependant des possibilités d'expression d'une créativité, voire d'une spiritualité différente. Le chapitre final est consacré aux bannières réalisées à l'occasion de la Mission 2012. / This thesis is about catholicism in Lower Brittany through the study of processional banners from the beginning of the 19th century to our days. These were found in tthe churches of the diocese of Quimper and Leon , in the french county of Finistere. The thesis is divided into four parts : the production of banners, their counting from the various types of available inventories, devotion which they highlight, even social evolution of which testify.The approach is quantitative and qualitative. It involves a systematic visit of churches and the conservation of a photographic record of all their banners. Classic sources are used such as the reportsof the canonical visits, and others vho are less so the inventories of 1906.The study of the life of two parishes, a deanship dating from the concordat and a former episcopal city, allowed to highlight the generative motives of the acquisition of banners. If parochial banners are the norm, the banners of congregations reflect the dynamism of the groups of devotion and their evolution in the course of the centuries.Quantitative approaches allow to propose a hypothesis of reponse to the policy of the Laic laws by interposed banners, in parallel to social evolutions. If the iconography shows a distant influence of the arts, it is especially the importance of trade that appears. However it leaves possibilities of expression for a different creativity and even for a different spirituality. The last chapters concerrn the revival starting from the seond third of the 20th century. The last chapter is dedicated to the banners made for the Mission 2012.

Cette étude a pour but d’analyser les représentations peintes – mais aussi, à chaque fois que cela était pertinent pour le propos, les dessins, les photographies et les sculptures – des campagnes d’Italie de 1800 et de 1859. L’approche comparative de ces deux événements met en parallèle les héritages et les innovations artistiques d’« un Napoléon à l’autre », en posant à chaque fois la question de la volonté de précision et des connaissances des artistes chargés d’immortaliser les grandes phases de ces conflits, de manière à apporter un regard principalement centré sur les aspects militaires de ces représentations, en recourant notamment à l’étude iconographique. S’il s’agit avant tout d’un travail d’histoire de l’art, s’appuyant sur l’analyse stylistique et sur la réception critique des œuvres, l’approche méthodologique proposée croise d’autres disciplines afin de détailler la conception et l’organisation des œuvres : topographie, stratégie, tactique et, plus largement, d’autres domaines plus spécifiquement liés au patrimoine militaire (uniformologie, emblématique, armement…). Les œuvres sont également confrontées aux objets conservés et à l’histoire militaire qu’elles représentent, afin de comprendre comment les artistes ont conçu leurs productions et sont parvenus à rendre les faits. L’organisation du propos est divisée en trois parties, étudiant successivement la représentation topographique (les artistes se sont-ils rendus sur les lieux, ont-ils cherché à être précis en rendant les paysages et les particularités géographiques ?), le rendu de la bataille (comment la traite-t-on au début et au milieu du siècle, trouve-t-on un véritable souci de faire figurer les bonnes unités aux bons endroits et de tenter de comprendre et / ou de recomposer les manœuvres tactiques ?) et la perception héroïque (comment met-on en valeur le héros d’une époque à l’autre et comment différencier une œuvre au rendu réaliste d’une autre vouée à la glorification ou à l’édification ?). / This work deals with a comparative analysis of military paintings representing the French Italian Campaigns (1800 and 1859), including drawings, photographs and sculptures when it is relevant. The parallel is established between artistic heritages and innovations from “a Napoleon to the other”, asking the artists’ willing of precision and military knowledge when they represented these events, so these works of art are studied in a different way focused on a military approach using iconography. Although the main work is in history of art, based on the analysis of formal handling and critical reception, the methodology resorts other sciences in order to examine the artworks composition and organisation in details: in that way, artworks are confronted to topography, strategy, tactic and also military heritage testimonies (uniforms, emblems, weapons…) and history they aimed to show. The work is divided in three parts, successively studying topographical representation (did the artists travelled to see the places and did they represented precise and recognizable geographical details?), the way of painting battles (how fights were figured at the beginning and in the middle of the 19th century, can regiments and tactical manoeuvres be identified correctly?) and heroic perception (how heroes were showed in 1800 and in 1859 and how artworks can be ranked, between glorification and realistic representations?).