Triumf obnovujícího se dne Umění a duchovní aristokracie na Moravě v 18. století
| Title in English | The triumph of the day renewing itself. Art and the clerical aristocracy in eighteenth-century Moravia |
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| Year of publication | 2013 |
| Type | Monograph |
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| Description | The ambition of the book is to show, taking the example of one important social class in the Baroque period, that art was not, and is not, simply the object of aesthetic perception, but also a means for shaping society, its historical memory, common cultural values and various political ideas, and that it has stimulated in its audience a whole range of widely differing reactions, expectations, and interpretations. In the book, the author tries to understand the distinctive language of Baroque portraits, the ostentatious magnificence of ceremonial carriages, and the contemporary ways of creating posthumous memorials on tombstones and monuments. He presents the remarkable figures of patrons of the arts, who were motivated in their cultural and artistic initiatives not only by their public role and membership of the clerical estate, but also by family ties and an awareness of the solidarity of their estate with the aristocratic elite. He guides the reader through aristocratic palaces and residences and shows which social rituals and ceremonials took place in them in the Baroque era, and what role was played in these events by the artistic furnishings and decoration. Last but not least, he reflects on the ways in which images were perceived at that time in sacred and profane settings, and on the changes that occurred in the way art was regarded in a period when, instead of the day of the Baroque era constantly renewing itself, the light of the Enlightenment was starting to shine through the clouds and shadows. |