Diss.--Fachbereich Historisch-philologische Wissenschaften--Göttingen--Georg-August-Universität, 1991.

This dissertation offers a wide-ranging examination of the half-length sacred figure over the door in medieval and early Renaissance Italian art. Drawing on a wealth of visual material that has attracted little attention among scholars, it argues that such images played a vital role in the religious lives of their beholders, transforming doorways into sites of devotional experience both within and beyond the church. Depicted incompletely, the holy body joined with the threshold below it to form a synthetic, composite image, one that invited the imaginative and corporeal participation of the viewer. This project employs various lenses to interpret the meaning and function of works about which scant written documentation comes down to us. In addition to considering scriptural metaphor and exegetical thought regarding the significance of doors, it explores the relationship of overdoor frescoes, mosaics, and reliefs to sacred icon panels, suggesting that the former might be recognized as wall icons, possessive of a heightened devotional appeal. It also uses overdoor images to illuminate broader spiritual and artistic concerns, including the nature of passage to the Christian afterlife, and the interaction between picture and frame, a topic central to Renaissance illusionism. Serving as an introduction to an important yet overlooked aspect of Italian visual culture, this text provides a conceptual framework for understanding a vast corpus of images that were essential to everyday piety, and that inflect our view of familiar art historical narratives.

This essay is a comparative study of two sculptures with the same motive and name, The Dance. Ellen Roosval created the freestanding sculpture The Dance in 1925 and the relief sculpture The Dance in 1933. The essay has two objectives, an analysis of these works of arts and a spotlight on the artist Ellen Roosval’s as an example of a female artist in the early 20th-century. Her reworking of the sculpture into the relief generates multiple transformations. When analyzing the works of art the aspects of the meaning and reception for the beholder has been crucial. The method theory originates from Wolfgang Kemp and was further developed by Jessica Sjöholm Skrubbe in her thesis. Sjöholm Skrubbe emphasizes on the beholders movements, the meaning of the term site-specific and the impact of the base. Now the questions in the current paper are: how the reception of the works relates to the viewer; how typology, site and material affects the design and expression; and how the works relates to the post-war aesthetics and dance. This also refers to how The Dance:s relates to the post-war aesthetic expressions and the motive. The study starts with a general background on the situation for female sculptors in the early 20th century, the artist Ellen Roosval, and dance. The dance section also introduces the dance company The Swedish Ballet (1920-25) that The Dance:s were tribute to. Then follows a contextualized presentation of the works analyzing formal elements and according to Sjöholm Skrubbe the different sites, the beholders movement and the base. Next, an analysis of typologies, materials and stylistic expressions. After that a deeper analysis focusing on the shaping of the human body, nudity and movements. Roosval’s The Dance 1933 is compared both with the relief The Dance by Antoine Bourdelle from 1912 and the Swedish Ballet performances. The analysis concludes with how site relates to choice of materials and how aesthetics and dance relates to the period 1920s. The results describes aspects of different transformations in relation to the beholders reception. The final discussion concludes on Roosval’s norm-breaker achievements, which inspired the title The Resistance of Time.

Originally presented as the author's Thesis (doctoral-- Universität Heidelberg, 1989). / Includes bibliographical references and index.

Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral-- Universität Heidelberg, 1989) / Includes index. Includes bibliographical references.

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This essay is a comparative study of two sculptures with the same motive and title, The Dance, by Ellen Roosval: a freestanding sculpture created in 1925 and a relief sculpture from 1933. The essay has two objectives: to analyse these works of art and to highlight the artist Ellen Roosval as an example of a female artist in the early 20th century. Roosval’s reworking of the free-standing sculpture into a relief generates multiple transformations. The research questions in the current study are: how the reception of the works relates to the viewer; how typology, site and material affect the design and expression; and how the two sculptures relate to the interwar period aesthetics, dance and the motive. In the analysis of both works aspects of their meaning in relation to the beholder’s experience have been crucial. The applied method of analysis originates from Wolfgang Kemp as developed by Jessica Sjöholm Skrubbe, with particular emphasis on the beholder’s movements, the meaning of the term site-specific and the impact of the base. The study begins with a general background on the situation for female sculptors in the early 20th century, the artist Ellen Roosval, and dance. The dance section also introduces the dance company The Swedish Ballet (1920-25) that the two versions of The Dance were a tribute to. Then follows a contextualized analysis of the works focusing on the formal elements, the different sites, bases and the beholder’s movements. Next follows an analysis of typologies, materials and stylistic expressions as well as the shaping of the human body, nudity and movements. Roosval’s The Dance 1933 is compared both to the relief The Dance by Antoine Bourdelle from 1912 and to the Swedish Ballet performances. The analysis concludes with a discussion of how the site relates to the choice of materials and how aesthetics and dance relate to the period 1920s. The results demonstrate aspects of various transformations in relation to the beholders experience. The final discussion concludes on Roosval’s norm-breaking achievements, which inspired the title of this essay: The Resistance of Time.

The archive as a site of ‘knowledge retrieval’* has long been the exemplary domain of astute historical inquiry. Following the recent ‘historic turn’* to address the politics of knowledge in the broader human and historical sciences, rather than its function as a site of ‘knowledge retrieval’*, I will reflect on the function of the archive as a site of ‘knowledge production’* in the writing of the histories of ancient Israel. Aligned within the conversations among historians and archivists and the new archival turn, the research will endeavour to offer a contribution to the debate on the topic of historical methodology of ancient Israel in the disciplines of Biblical Archaeology and History of ancient Israel. I will argue that an examination into the function of the archive as historical a priori in a study of the discourses on the Lachish reliefs in the disciplines discloses the practical and theoretical tenets that converge to construct knowledge on the Lachish reliefs and hence also knowledge on ancient Israel. The research will contend that a bounded formation of knowledge on the Lachish reliefs has evolved in the disciplines since the nineteenth century that is along the British imperial archival grain. * Terminology from Stoler, A L 2002. Colonial Archives and the Arts of Governance: On the Content in the Form, in Hamilton C, Harris, V, Taylor, J, Pickover, M, Reid, G & Saleh, R (eds) 2002. Refiguring the Archive. Cape Town: David Philip, 83-102. / Biblical and Ancient Studies / MA (Biblical Archaeology) / 1 online resource (xii, 194 leaves) ; illustrations (some color), maps

La domination romaine est une période « mal-aimée » de l’Egypte ancienne. Elle est néanmoins très intéressante et mériterait davantage d’études. <p>Réaliser une analyse du matériel de cette époque n’est donc pas chose aisée. Il faut comprendre, dès le départ, que la recherche sera confrontée à des préjugés, des problèmes de documentation et une certaine négligence de la part des scientifiques. Il convient de poser les buts de recherche, de se conformer à une méthodologie rigoureuse et de dégrossir une série de conclusions. <p>Il semble opportun d’étudier l’art d’époque Julio-Claudienne en Egypte. Cette thématique s’impose pour de multiples raisons.<p><p>Nous nous trouvons face à deux civilisations sortant d’un conflit récent (les guerres civiles romaines qui ont conduit à l’affrontement d’Octave-Auguste avec Antoine et Cléopâtre VII, dernière reine de la dynastie Lagide) où l’une a triomphé de l’autre. Ces tensions vont-elles être tangibles dans l’art ?Pour des raisons matérielles, il faut délimiter le sujet à aborder. L’étude de cet article sera donc consacrée majoritairement aux images de temple et aux stèles. <p><p>Ce ciblage s’explique non seulement pour des raisons matérielles mais aussi pour l’intérêt scientifique que ce sujet représente. Pendant longtemps, les reliefs égyptiens d’époque romaine ont été considérés comme un art altéré sans aucune autre fonction que de préserver une tradition vouée à son inéluctable disparition. Plusieurs questions se sont posées d’emblée :qui commanditait les monuments, qui les finançait, qui les réalisait, y-avait-il un suivi de la part du pouvoir central romain et qui en étaient les relais ?<p>L’image royale des temples d’époque romaine en Egypte est fortement tributaire des types iconographiques des époques pharaonique et ptolémaïque. Néanmoins, certains détails révèlent qu’il ne s’agît pas d’une copie servile. Les innovations d’époque romaine sont visibles dans le rendu du détail, des suggestions de volume ou l’utilisation d’un mode représentatif. L’étude de ces images permet de mieux comprendre les techniques de dessin en Egypte romaine et l’organisation du travail des artistes :isoler des « mains », supputer l’existence de « cahiers de modèles » et d’écoles de style ( parfois, plusieurs au sein d’un même temple ). Certaines scènes sont plus récurrentes dans certains endroits géographiques: leur analyse permet de comprendre les enjeux géographiques, politiques et religieux que la propagande voulait faire passer à travers elles.<p>Enfin, d'autres recherches (prosopographie.) pourraient permettre de mieux comprendre le microcosme où se sont élaborées ces images. / Doctorat en Histoire, art et archéologie / info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished