Byzance à Conques? An Unrealized Dream of “Neo-Byzantine” Architecture in Nineteenth-Century France

Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="https://www.brepols.net/products/IS-9788028004255-1" target="_blank" >https://www.brepols.net/products/IS-9788028004255-1</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1484/M.CONVISUP-EB.5.137359" target="_blank" >10.1484/M.CONVISUP-EB.5.137359</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Byzance à Conques? An Unrealized Dream of “Neo-Byzantine” Architecture in Nineteenth-Century France
Original language description
Taking as starting point an unrealized project for Conques by Jean- Camille Formigé, the architect of the abbey-church’s restorations in the 1870s–1880s, this paper explores the broader theories and practices of historicist restoration and building projects between the 1840s and the end of the nineteenth century. By looking firstly at the theorical frame in which the concepts of “Byzantine”, “Neo-Byzantine”, “Romano- Byzantine” and “Romanesque” were fabricated, and by then examining some of the most important monuments of historicist architecture (such as Saint-Front in Périgueux, the Sacré-Coeur), I aim to uncover the impact of these terms and their role in the reinvention of medieval art as well as in the formulation of racist, colonial, and national myths in modern art history. In these crucial years for the development of the discipline of art history but also for the formation of a French national identity, the role of the “Romano-Byzantine”and “Byzantine”styles reveals a tension at the intersection of religious revival, orientalist art history, and trans-Mediterranean – and perhaps also colonial – desires.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Publication year
2023
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name
Contextualizing Conques : Imaginaries, Narratives and Geographies
ISBN
9788028004255
Number of pages of the result
22
Pages from-to
20-41
Number of pages of the book
173
Publisher name
Brepols
Place of publication
Turnhout
UT code for WoS chapter
001158126400005

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