Project description
Reconstructing art in early modern domestic spaces
Art has always been a key element in shaping cultural identities. While artworks are prominently displayed in museums, little is known about the private, domestic settings where they were once enjoyed. The interiors and objects surrounding these artworks remain largely unexplored. This limits our ability to grasp the social and cultural implications of art display in early modern life. Supported by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions programme, the SPADArt project will study artworks in their original domestic settings. Focusing on early modern Antwerp, SPADArt combines probate inventories and digital historical maps to create 3D models of historical homes. The overall aim is to uncover the role of class, gender, and religion in art display.
Objective
The SPADArt project addresses a significant gap in our understanding of early modern European art by reconstructing the private domestic settings in which artworks were originally displayed and enjoyed. Despite the prominence of these artworks in museums today, little is known about their original spatial and material contexts such as the interiors and objects that surrounded them. This gap in our knowledge makes it impossible to fully understand the cultural and social implications of art display in historical daily lives and it hinders effective communication of these insights to the public in museums.
To bridge this gap, SPADArt develops a holistic spatial methodology that adds a critical spatial dimension to study artworks within their original contexts at home. Focusing on early modern Antwerp, the project leverages underexplored sources from the host institute, including extensive databases of probate inventories and digital historical maps, in combination with the researcher’s expertise in art history and digital methods. Drawing on these areas of expertise, SPADArt will mine large inventory databases and collect architectural evidence to develop typologies of premodern Antwerp houses in schematic 3D models and identify object ensembles around artworks and their spatial positions in houses across social strata. These outcomes will be integrated into a novel spatial methodology, which will be applied across case studies analyzing class-based and gender-specific art display as well as the role of art in religious practices at home.
SPADArt will add the critical yet missing expertise in material culture to the researcher’s skillset, providing a crucial foundation for future research and an independent research career. SPADArt's spatial methodology will offer new perspectives for historical research in social history, gender and religious studies while assisting museums worldwide in better contextualizing their collections, thereby enhancing public engagement.
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HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
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2000 Antwerpen
Belgium
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