Art History ****************************************************************************************** * ****************************************************************************************** *========================================================================================= * Čestmír Cimler *========================================================================================= Title of Contribution: How can the concept of commandery, which was not used in the Midde Ages, be correctly inte University / Faculty / Department / Institute: Charles Univeristy / Catholic Theological Faculty / Institute of Christian Art History Abstract of the contribution: The objects of knightly, crusading or purely hospital orders created in the Middle Ages ar was not used/unknown. It can represent both complexes of buildings that are similar in cha church/chapel (Bubikon, Pičín, Hostěradice), or a simple parish center (Marchegg, Krnov, P which was focused only on Knights Hospitallers objects located in the territory of South M link between the objects of outstanding diversity are, for example, their floor plan layou contribution, we will also focus on the historical and methodological development of the u Return to Main Programme [ URL "https://www.ktf.cuni.cz/KTFENG-277.html"] *========================================================================================= * Filip Facincani *========================================================================================= Title of Contribution: Charles Univeristy / Faculty of Arts University / Faculty / Department / Institute: Charles Univeristy / Catholic Theological Faculty Abstract of the contribution: The main aim of this contribution is to present one typological variation of medieval Maso letters. The main question of this contribution is: Could these compound alphabetical mark were used simply as a specific form of a personal mark? If the first assumption is correct of the processes from the quarrying, dressing or delivery of the stone blocks. Return to Main Programme [ URL "https://www.ktf.cuni.cz/KTFENG-277.html"] *========================================================================================= * Garaiová Jana *========================================================================================= Title of Contribution: Stove tiles with Saint Margaret as a Part of Knightly Iconography University / Faculty / Department / Institute: Comenius University Bratislava / Faculty of Arts Abstract of the contribution: This contribution offers an interpretation of Knightly Iconography with Saint Margaret as interiors, but also a very important representational role. Design of the tile stove was r decoration can be found in the representative spaces of castles, burgher houses, town hall owner (or customer). It is assumed that the tile stoves were built from individual pieces according to the choice of the owner of the house, castle, manor house. Saint often repres themes; secular, sacral and decorative in one stove. However, in the modern reconstruction Margaret (Margaret of Antioch) represents a great example of the connection between sacral connects St. Margaret with a knightly culture. There is a possible interpretation that the Return to Main Programme [ URL "https://www.ktf.cuni.cz/KTFENG-277.html"] *========================================================================================= * Patrný Michal *========================================================================================= Title of Contribution: Dutch responses to the work of the Prague Cathedral Workshop University / Faculty / Department / Institute: Charles Univeristy / Catholic Theological Faculty / Institute of Christian Art History Abstract of the contribution: In this paper I would like to focus on the personality of the builder Rutger van Kampen (i - like the Parliers - from Cologne. His father, Michael von Savoyen, is listed as one of t later married Peter Parléř's sister. The earliest mention of Rutger dates back to about 1361, when we find him already in the D a contract with him concerning the restoration (but rather the completion) of the local ch It is very noteworthy that Rutger is documented as a stonemason on the construction of Pra until 1384, marrying the daughter of Peter Parléř. The work in the Prague building works u It is documented in sources that in 1391 Rutger concluded a contract for the completion of (Nieuwe Kerk, after 1408) and the church of St. Mary in Harderwijk. Return to Main Programme [ URL "https://www.ktf.cuni.cz/KTFENG-277.html"] *========================================================================================= * Petra Šebelová Hnilicová *========================================================================================= Title of Contribution: The Madonna Del Latte from Bruntál. Imagination, Inspiration and Interpretation in the Bar University / Faculty / Department / Institute: Masaryk University Abstract of the contribution: This case study about The Madonna Del Latte or “The Nursing Madonna” from Bruntál will und the terms of imagination, inspiration and interpretation, and in the context of Baroque cu Return to Main Programme [ URL "https://www.ktf.cuni.cz/KTFENG-277.html"] *========================================================================================= * Ondřej Šindlář *========================================================================================= Title of Contribution: Painting workshop around 1500 as an interpretive challenge: Notes on the Budňany Altarpiec University / Faculty / Department / Institute: Charles Univeristy / Catholic Theological Faculty / Institute of Christian Art History Abstract of the contribution: A specific problem of research on the painters' workshops in Bohemia is the huge lack of w the study of painters' workshops is therefore often randomly preserved anonymous works. Mo technological affinity of the surviving works. The second problem with research on late Gothic panel painting in Bohemia is that the exte of nationalism, and an authoritative canon of essential paintings and fictional painters h The updating of the subject has taken place significantly, but still only partially, since If one examines painting of Bohemian provenance in understanding the work as the result of seemingly insignificant workshops come to the fore. One of these is the workshop of the so the fund of panel painting in Bohemia around 1500 as well as some other "famous" workshops possibilities and relationships. Return to Main Programme [ URL "https://www.ktf.cuni.cz/KTFENG-277.html"] *========================================================================================= * Clara Cheung *========================================================================================= Title of Contribution: How does the recent artistic turn to nature in Hong Kong help unearth Hongkongers’ cultural identity? University / Faculty / Department / Institute: University of York / History of Art Abstract of the contribution: Natural landscapes and environmental sustainability has become prominent subject matters f reviewing the socio-political context in Hong Kong. Since 2008 (10 years after Hong Kong b have been different waves of protests to protect the rural villages and farmlands from the Kong has long been kept as a natural border between Hong Kong and China. The movement agai cultural practitioners and artists participating in the movement, artworks in the nature a exhibition on the Northeastern New Territories,’ in 2014 invited Hongkongers to reflect upon their cultural artworks situated in Northern Hong Kong exhibit the border of Hong Kong vividly and unavoi this paper argues that ‘Environmental Art’ developed in the past two decades in Hong Kong identity which is neither British nor Chinese. Return to Main Programme [ URL "https://www.ktf.cuni.cz/KTFENG-277.html"] *========================================================================================= * Ota Halama *========================================================================================= Title of Contribution: Illustrations of the book Genesis by Jan Konůpek University / Faculty / Department / Institute: Charles Univeristy / Catholic Theological Faculty / Institute of Christian Art History Abstract of the contribution: The contribution will present Konůpek´s (1883–1950) illustrations for the biblical book Ge these illustrations in an artistic, literary and theological context. Return to Main Programme [ URL "https://www.ktf.cuni.cz/KTFENG-277.html"] *========================================================================================= * Bernadette Ščasná *========================================================================================= Title of Contribution: Artistic Narratives of the Holocaust: The Public’s Interpretation of the Film The Auschwit University / Faculty / Department / Institute: Tallinn University / School of Humanities Abstract of the contribution: The efforts to create new representations of the Holocaust through various art forms such an image of the past events. The case study that caught my interest is the recently releas Germany and it was screened not only in Europe but also reached the viewers all over the w the viewers understand the story and the characters’ feelings through many interesting art present my research of the film’s interpretation and reception. I focus on these two aspec into the reception it will be more clear what are some of the film’s attributes that are m coined by Alison Landsberg) of a great and dark chapter of humanity’s history, the Holocau Return to Main Programme [ URL "https://www.ktf.cuni.cz/KTFENG-277.html"] *========================================================================================= * Kateřina Vajdáková *========================================================================================= Title of Contribution: A secretly locked Treasure Chest: Art Collections of Arnold Skutezky University / Faculty / Department / Institute: Masaryk University / Seminar of Art History Abstract of the contribution: The Jewish industrialist and collector Arnold Skutezky (1850-1936), who belonged to a grou collecting in his time. He represented a kind of ideal example of a collector who takes a During more than forty years of collecting activity, he created several collections as a c they fulfil, and where are these art objects today? Thanks to the reconstruction of indivi interests and desires of their owner, who invested in them not only his material resources determination, a way of representing social status or capital to be used in times of need. private collections and their owners. Return to Main Programme [ URL "https://www.ktf.cuni.cz/KTFENG-277.html"] *========================================================================================= * Barbora Zelenková *========================================================================================= Title of Contribution: The Interpretation of Literary Region in Ivan Landsmann's prose University / Faculty / Department / Institute: University of Pardubice / Faculty of Arts and Philosophy Abstract of the contribution: The literary region is a set of symbolic elements of human space, which is presented by a of the author (leaving aside the theory The Author is Dead from Rolland Barthes) - more pr of the book. The literary region is the author's space of his region, where he returns to home region, where the writer spends some time in her/his life. It has to do with memory a studies such as the theories of Aleida Assmann, Maurice Halbwachs or Pierre Nora. Related to this is the idea of returning home, as mentioned by Svatava Urbanová and Iva Má tendency of returning to the home region/hometown, which the writer considers home and a s As I have already mentioned, the image of the writer's region is a literary story. This im much is the image of the described region that writers create the real space of the region This concept of presenting the region is found, for example, in Ivan Landsmann´s prose, wh Landsmann was a miner in the mines of Havířov and Ostrava, where he gained experience of h to the places of his childhood and home. This is reflected in his books and creates the Os Return to Main Programme [ URL "https://www.ktf.cuni.cz/KTFENG-277.html"] *========================================================================================= * Tomáš Zmeškal *========================================================================================= Title of Contribution: Reality of Randomness – Zdeněk Sýkora’s Line Paintings University / Faculty / Department / Institute: Palacký University Olomouc / Department of Art History Czech Academy of Sciences Abstract of the contribution: Line Paintings of Zdeněk Sýkora, which he created from 1973 until his death in 2010, remai of the late 20th and early 21st centuries Czech abstraction, the interpretation of their “ of abstract works of art is by definition never clear-cut. Although Sýkora himself did not want to publicly interpret his own works, there are some h plans, which to certain extent can help to clarify what he tried to do and in which direct throughout his life. Although using random processes in art was established in Europe and own system of composition, he relinquished to a degree authorial control over his work (in which he randomly constructed are deeply rooted in his philosophy of creativity as extensi side and aesthetics of human perception on the other. However, Line Paintings are not as s Return to Main Programme [ URL "https://www.ktf.cuni.cz/KTFENG-277.html"] *========================================================================================= * Pavla Minarovičová *========================================================================================= Title of Contribution: Beauty and ugliness in portrayal of crucification University / Faculty / Department / Institute: University of Trnava Abstract of the contribution: The subject of this contribution is inspired by an article by Sara Lipton and reflection f imagery in the late Middle Ages and nature of Christian perceptions of beauty and ugliness portrayal of suffering with the passage of time. Earlier images depict Christ on the cross seems to find beauty in them. This contribution will present the paradox in the perception Return to Main Programme [ URL "https://www.ktf.cuni.cz/KTFENG-277.html"]