Descrizione del progetto
Definire il significato estetico e socio-politico delle reliquie russe
Il progetto RICONTRANS, finanziato dall’UE, esplora le migliaia di icone e altri oggetti d’arte religiosa russi, portati dalla Russia nei Balcani dal XVI al XX secolo, conservati in monasteri, chiese e collezioni museali della regione. Il progetto traccia il processo storico di trasferimento e diffusione, così come la ricezione dell’arte religiosa dalla Russia, esaminandone l’impatto multidimensionale (politico, ideologico, estetico) nei Balcani e nel Mediterraneo orientale. Esso solleva inoltre questioni relative alle interrelazioni tra forma artistica, cultura visiva, pietà personale, propaganda politica ed ecclesiastica e ideologia, portando il trasferimento di oggetti d’arte alla ribalta come un nuovo campo di studio nella ricerca scientifica contemporanea del sud-est europeo.
Obiettivo
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.
Campo scientifico
Programma(i)
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Meccanismo di finanziamento
ERC-COG - Consolidator GrantIstituzione ospitante
70013 Irakleio
Grecia