IMC 2023: Sessions
Session 629: Linking Medieval Bronze Doors: Making, Sensing, Documentation
Tuesday 4 July 2023, 11.15-12.45
| Organiser: | Marianne Mödlinger, Institut für Realienkunde des Mittelalters und der frühen Neuzeit, Paris-Lodron-Universität Salzburg / Dipartimento di Chimica e Chimica Industriale, Università degli Studi di Genova, Italy |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Judith Utz, Institut für Realienkunde des Mittelalters und der frühen Neuzeit, Paris-Lodron-Universität Salzburg |
| Paper 629-a | The Iconology of Technique and Material in Medieval Bronze Doors (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Art History - Sculpture, Religious Life |
| Paper 629-b | Image-based Metric and Semantic Modelling of Medieval Bronze Doors (Language: English) Index terms: Architecture - Religious, Byzantine Studies, Science, Technology |
| Paper 629-c | Artistic Creativity and Cultural Emulation: The Medieval Church Doors of Svaneti, Georgia (Language: English) Index terms: Architecture - Religious, Art History - Sculpture |
| Abstract | Technical and iconographic similarities point to a very close connection between the 27 today still-preserved bronze doors from the 11th-12th century in Europe. Within the international project 'Tore zum Paradies' funded by Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung (P 34477-G), we aim to trace these networks through interdisciplinary approaches, comprising material analyses, art history, archaeology, and visualise them through high-resolution documentation of all doors. We will not only reveal connections between doors, workshops, artists and the materials used but also entanglements between the object and the viewer and/or believer: doors were closely integrated into the performance of the liminal space through their localisation at the portal. |