Dynamics of Re-Gothicization in 19th-Century Central Europe. The Church of St James in Brno: Local Preoccupations and Global Trends

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Dynamics of Re-Gothicization in 19th-Century Central Europe. The Church of St James in Brno: Local Preoccupations and Global Trends

Original language description

In the 19th century, historicist restoration projects very often had high stakes and meaning for cities, official figures, and theoreticians alike. The re-Gothicization project of the Church of St James the Great in Brno is no different: as a matter of fact, the sources and writings describing the church’s transformation between circa the 1860s and 1880s provide us with a rich array of materials which allow us to understand both the historiography of the building, and the intertwining of local and global practices in a central European town. With the historian Christian d’Elvert’s text on the restoration as a guideline, and making use of numerous unpublished archival documents, what emerges is a dive into the history of mentalities of a restoration project involving an entire society – from citizens and local authorities to the German master-builder Josef Arnold, and to the famous Viennese architect Heinrich Ferstel. In such a way, the essay follows – in three steps – all the major stages of the restoration, from its intellectual conception as a project to “purify” the appearance of the church to practical issues, such as the involvement of votive donations in its financing, and to the global dynamics involved in the idea of neo- Gothic restoration in the second half of the long 19th century.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

C - Chapter in a specialist book

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60401 - Arts, Art history

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name

Central Europe as a Meeting Point of Visual Cultures : Circulation of Persons, Artifacts, and Ideas

ISBN

9788833138459

Number of pages of the result

25

Pages from-to

165-189

Number of pages of the book

248

Publisher name

Viella

Place of publication

Roma

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