Prof. Christian erforscht die Kulturgeschichte der Frühen Neuzeit mit Fokus auf die Wiederaneignung antiker Kunstwerke und Wissensbestände in Europa vom 15. bis 17. Jahrhundert. Aktuell untersucht sie, wie räumliche Orientierungsmuster und die Positionierung des Betrachters in frühneuzeitlichen Kunsttexten beschrieben wurden (DFG-Projekt 2026–2029). Ihre Arbeit verbindet Kunstgeschichte, Literaturwissenschaft und Archivforschung, um zu zeigen, wie lokale Gemeinschaften, Päpste, Kardinäle und Künstler die klassische Antike je nach ihren gegenwärtigen Bedürfnissen deuteten und neu nutzten. Dies ist relevant für Museen, Ausstellungshäuser und Kulturinstitutionen, die ihre Sammlungsgeschichte und Provenienz verstehen möchten, sowie für die Geschichtswissenschaft und Kunsthistoriographie.
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Prof. Dr. Kathleen Christian
HU-FIS-Profil ↗Edmond J. Safra-Gastprofessur
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Förderer: DFG Eigene Stelle (Sachbeihilfe) Zeitraum: 03/2026 - 02/2029 Projektleitung: Prof. Dr. Kathleen Christian, Stefano de Bosio
Förderer: Sonstige internationale Geldgeber Zeitraum: 10/2026 - 03/2027 Projektleitung: Prof. Dr. Kathleen Christian
This interdisciplinary collection of essays, presented at the Warburg Institute in 2009, considers the identity of the Muses in Antiquity and through centuries of their afterlife, tracing their religious, educational and philosophical meaning in classical Greece and their subsequent transformation and re-interpretation in a range of post-classical contexts. Individual contributors consider the invocation of the Muses in different places and at different times by those in search of inspiration, immortality and fame. The volume addresses the concept of the Muses from the perspective of philology, philosophy, art history, antiquarianism and musicology, from Antiquity to the Middle Ages and Early Modern period. It concludes with a discussion of the place of the Muses in Aby Warburg’s cultural theory.
This collection investigates the wide array of local antiquarian practices that developed across Europe in the early modern era. Breaking new ground, it explores local concepts of antiquity in a period that has been defined as a uniform 'Renaissance'. Contributors take a novel approach to the revival of the antique in different parts of Italy, as well as examining other, less widely studied antiquarian traditions in France, the Netherlands, Spain, Portugal, Britain and Poland. They consider how real or fictive ruins, inscriptions and literary works were used to demonstrate a particular idea of local origins, to rewrite history or to vaunt civic pride. In doing so, they tackle such varied subjects as municipal antiquities collections in Southern Italy and France, the antiquarian response to the pagan, Christian and Islamic past on the Iberian Peninsula, and Netherlandish interest in megalithic ruins thought to be traces of a prehistoric race of Giants.
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It will consider different antiquarian strategies in Rome adopted during a window of time (from the second half of the fifteenth century into the early sixteenth) when antiquity was open and available, to Romans and non Romans, to the lay nobility, to new men, to Cardinals and <italic>literati</italic>. A glimpse into the patronage of art, literature, architecture and festival décor by Cardinal Pietro Riario, Cardinal Raffaele Riario, Lorenzo Manlio, and as will be discussed in most detail, the Maffei family from Verona, will emphasize the variety and diversity of approaches to the antique, each re-using the past to establish a new beginning or a moment of the re-foundation of antique glory. Diverse strategies heralded the refoundation of Rome, in a way which vaunted the rise to prominence of a particular patron or family. This is seen by comparing the antiquarian strategies of foreigners and locals, of men of different ranks and with different social roles: those of Cardinals (the Riario), a native Roman (Manlio), and a family of non-native Veronese (the Maffei).