Eine Plattform für die Wissenschaft: Bauingenieurwesen, Architektur und Urbanistik
Eine Plattform für die Wissenschaft: Bauingenieurwesen, Architektur und Urbanistik
The Concept of Spolia
As a label, spolia is both metaphorical and anachronistic. A Latin word meaning “spoils” or anything “stripped” from someone or something, “spolia” was coined as a term for reused antiquities by artist‐antiquarians active in Rome around 1500. Spolia are not an exclusively medieval topic; on the contrary, reuse is a universal response to limitations of technology or resources. Rather than a coherent category, spolia might better be considered a theme of categories like architecture and sculpture, a theme that tends to be brought up in conjunction with other themes like the survival of Classical Antiquity or renovatio. Spolia also resonate with prominent themes of post‐modern cultural criticism, such as appropriation, bricolage, historicism, the fragment, and ruin. An ever widening spectrum of interpretive methodologies is brought to bear on these assemblages.
The Concept of Spolia
As a label, spolia is both metaphorical and anachronistic. A Latin word meaning “spoils” or anything “stripped” from someone or something, “spolia” was coined as a term for reused antiquities by artist‐antiquarians active in Rome around 1500. Spolia are not an exclusively medieval topic; on the contrary, reuse is a universal response to limitations of technology or resources. Rather than a coherent category, spolia might better be considered a theme of categories like architecture and sculpture, a theme that tends to be brought up in conjunction with other themes like the survival of Classical Antiquity or renovatio. Spolia also resonate with prominent themes of post‐modern cultural criticism, such as appropriation, bricolage, historicism, the fragment, and ruin. An ever widening spectrum of interpretive methodologies is brought to bear on these assemblages.
The Concept of Spolia
Rudolph, Conrad (Herausgeber:in) / Kinney, Dale (Autor:in)
A Companion to Medieval Art ; 331-356
15.04.2019
26 pages
Aufsatz/Kapitel (Buch)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
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