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Rotter, Malena: Unsichtbares sichtbar machen: Strategien zur Darstellung des überirdischen Raumes in der italienischen Malerei im 14. und 15. Jahrhundert, Heidelberg: arthistoricum.net, 2022. https://doi.org/10.11588/arthistoricum.942

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ISBN 978-3-98501-048-6 (PDF)
ISBN 978-3-98501-049-3 (Hardcover)

Published

03/16/2022

Authors

Malena Rotter

Unsichtbares sichtbar machen

Strategien zur Darstellung des überirdischen Raumes in der italienischen Malerei im 14. und 15. Jahrhundert

The divine heaven is a complicated, albeit ubiquitous pictorial object whose theologically justified 'non-representability' places special demands on visualisation. Although none of the painters knew their subject matter, recurring principles can be discerned with which approaches to solving the problem of depicting the 'invisible' were formulated and the viewer could thus be brought closer to the beyond. Modes of images abstracted from the analysis enable a systematic recording of the celestial images. Here, traditional designs and new conventions are juxtaposed, which need to be evaluated and contextualised in this framework.

Malena Rotter studied art history, sociology and ethnology in Frankfurt / Main and Milan. As part of her doctorate, she was a fellow at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florence and the German Academic Exchange Service. Since January 2021 she is curatorial assistant at the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister in Kassel.

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Table of Contents
Pages
PDF
Titelei
a-4
Inhalt
5-6
Vorwort
7
Einleitung
9-33
Der überirdische Himmel – ideengeschichtliche Grundlagen
35-75
Der Himmel in der Wand- und Tafelmalerei im 14. und 15. Jahrhundert
77-287
Strategien der Bildgestaltung
289-302
Ausblick
303-314
Bibliographie
Anhang
317-345
Abbildungsverzeichnis
Anhang
347-354

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