Description du projet
Définir la signification esthétique et sociopolitique des reliques russes
RICONTRANS, financé par l’UE, explore les milliers d’icônes et autres objets d’art religieux russes, importés de Russie dans les Balkans entre les XVIe et XXe siècles, et conservés dans des monastères, des églises et des collections de musées de la région. Le projet cartographie le processus historique de transfert et de diffusion ainsi que la réception de l’art religieux de Russie et examine son impact multidimensionnel (politique, idéologique, esthétique) sur les Balkans et la Méditerranée orientale. Il soulève des questions concernant les interrelations entre la forme artistique, la culture visuelle, la piété personnelle, la propagande politique et ecclésiastique et l’idéologie, mettant ainsi en lumière le transfert d’objets d’art en tant que nouveau domaine d’étude dans la recherche scientifique contemporaine du Sud‑Est européen.
Objectif
The Russian religious artefacts (icons and ecclesiastical furnishings) held in museums, church or monastery collections in the Balkans and Eastern Mediterranean constitute a body of valuable monuments hitherto largely neglected by historians and historians of art. These objects acquire various interrelated religious/ideological, political and aesthetic meanings, value and uses. Their transfer and reception is a significant component of the larger process of transformation of the artistic language and visual culture in the region and its transition from medieval to modern idioms. It is at the same time a process reflecting the changing cultural and political relations between Russia and the Orthodox communities in the Ottoman Empire and its successor states in the Balkans over a long period of time (16th-20th century). In this dynamic transfer, piety, propaganda and visual culture appear intertwined in historically unexplored and theoretically provoking ways.
The aim of RICONTRANS is to investigate, for the first time in a systematic and interdisciplinary way, this transnational phenomenon of artefact transfer and reception. Applying the cultural transfer approach in combination with the recent challenging openings of art history to visual studies, this project aims to: map the phenomenon in its long history by identifying preserved objects in the region; follow the paths and identify the mediums of this transfer; analyse the dynamics and the moving factors (religious, political, ideological) of this process during its various historical phases; study and classify these objects according to their iconographic and artistic particularities; inquire into the aesthetic, ideological, political, and social factors which shaped the context of the reception of Russian religious art objects in various social, cultural and religious environments; investigate the influence of these transferred artefacts on the visual culture of the host societies.
Champ scientifique
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Régime de financement
ERC-COG - Consolidator GrantInstitution d’accueil
70013 Irakleio
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