Revealing the Origins: An Interdisciplinary Study Into the Provenance of Sacral Microarchitecture–The Unique Case of the Church Model From Žatec in Bohemia

Result code in IS VaVaI
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Alternative codes found
RIV/00216208:11210/25:10504747 RIV/00216208:11310/25:10504747
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/opar-2025-0059/html" target="_blank" >https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/opar-2025-0059/html</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/opar-2025-0059" target="_blank" >10.1515/opar-2025-0059</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Revealing the Origins: An Interdisciplinary Study Into the Provenance of Sacral Microarchitecture–The Unique Case of the Church Model From Žatec in Bohemia
Original language description
The present study explores the iconographic and cultural significance of a unique case of microarchitecture from Bohemia in the wider context of ecclesiastical donation imagery in late antique, Byzantine, and early medieval art. It focuses on a stone model of a Romanesque church from the city of Žatec. Dating back to the first half of the twelfth century, this small microarchitecture, depicting a single-nave church with a semicircular apse, is the only surviving example of its kind from the early medieval period in Bohemia. The Žatec model provides a rare material instance of this phenomenon, bridging the symbolic and the architectural modus operandi. To further assess its material provenance, the model was investigated using X-ray powder diffraction, which highlights its role as an artefact of both artistic and archaeological significance. While the model’s original function remains uncertain, its iconographic parallels, most notably with the obverse of the denarius of Svatopluk (1107–1109), suggest strong ties to contemporary visual, ecclesiastical, and political culture. There are extremely few analogies to the Žatec model north of the Alps, and only a few in the eastern regions.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60102 - Archaeology

Project
<a href="/en/project/GA23-06403S" target="_blank" >GA23-06403S: Provenance of Marble from Northern Italy and Istria as Evidence of Interconnections between the East and West in Late Antiquity</a><br>
Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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