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The present study is a half-shortened version of the Album, perhaps sufficient to outline the problem and reasoning. It forms a chapter in the dissertation, the topic of which is German painting ’80 and ’90 years (predecessors, opposition, followers). Unfortunately, or fortunately, it was necessary for such an extensive treatment of the emergence of meaning from the movement of the view of the image,...
The paper focuses on some fundamental issues of landscape representation systems in connection with new technologies and scope regimes. It is based mainly on environmental aesthetics and ecology criteria, which present it as a summary and complex space with certain specific natural, social, economic and political relationships. In this sense, it also follows the basic theses of the Anthropocene philosophy...
This paper is composed of two parts. The first one deals with the question of modes of depiction (notations, diagrams, algorithms, sketches) related to the scientific and artistic study of natural and cultural systemic phenomena, dynamic systems and open systems, including extra-systemic phenomena, singularity, and a chance. The question is how system-related scientific and artistic modes of depiction...
This article deals with the issues of immanentism and contextualism concerning the literary and critical work of Marcel Proust. First, it compares several authors’ works and notes Proust’s methods in interpreting works of art. Then, based on Proust’s thought, it problematizes the temporality of art, the relation of art to social reality, and the author’s biography. From this position, I believe I...
The presented text considers a floor plan of the medieval church, among other things, from the point of view of semiotics, as developed by C. S. Peirce. Based on his second trichotomy, the text identifies the floor plan as an icon and ascribes to it the properties of a pictogram. The text then deals with an example of using the floor plan of a medieval Christian church in contemporary art, specifically...
There are two stones with engraved symbols on the south facade of the chapel of St. Margaret of Antioch in Kopčany (Slovakia). On one of the stones, the signs X, X in a rectangular frame and a schematically depicted face surmounted by three crosses are engraved. On the second stone, only the signs X and some simple lines are carved very indistinctly. Only the signs on the first stone are the subject...
The article addresses the topic of the significance of the law of the frame in academic discussion, the classification of artworks, and the pursuit to understand the formal aspects of artistic objects. It has been demonstrated how frequently and to what extent the law of the frame is included in cross-sectional publications on the history of art. The analysis has confirmed considerable importance...
After the battle of Mohács, the new king Ferdinand of Habsburg had the relics of the Saint John the Merciful (Almsgiver) placed in the St. Martin‘s Cathedral in Bratislava. The city became the capital of the Kingdom of Hungary and, between 1563 and 1830, the place where members of the Habsburg dynasty were crowned Hungarian kings. The relics served not only for religious purposes but also for the...
Imrich Esterházi is one of the most important patrons of the 18th century yet his patronage in present-day Slovakia, Hungary and Croatia has not been analysed. Detailed iconological research on his commissions is lacking as well. The aim of this study is to summarize and briefly analyse his extensive, but still not comprehensively processed, historiography. The latter constitutes the basis for further...
This study offers a discussion about the way how artworks act as communicators of identity of their patrons. It reflects upon the potential interpretations of Donatello’s bronze statue of the David and the ways how it mirrors the religious and civic aspects of the identity of its patrons, the Medici family, in light of the Quattrocento Florentine society. On the example of this statue’s replacement...
The evaluations of the Dominican church in Košice in the specialist literature have been controversial. It has been dated between the last third of the 13th century and the last third of the 14th century. Its style might have stemmed from Silesian and Polish, Danubian or Parlerian architecture. Links to the Danubian style and the date of the establishment in the first quarter or third of the 14th...
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