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Gripsholmstavlorna och den svenska renässansen. Om Lucretia, Paris’ dom, Actaeon och Diana och andra populära motiv vid vasahovet
No full textTitle The 16th-century paintings from Gripsholm Castle and the Swedish RenaissanceIn the early 18th century, several large Renaissance narrative paintings were discovered at the royal castle of Gripsholm, Sweden. Since they were in a poor state of preservation and erroneously believed to depict scenes from Swedish history they were reproduced in five watercolours. The original paintings were soon lost. They probably date from the 1540s or 1550s and were used as wall hangings. Swedish art-historians have generally argued that the decorations were intended for the Hall of state at Gripsholm Castle, although this seems rather dubious. The iconography has also been subject to some debate. According to the most widespread interpretation, the scenes illustrate the story of Verginia from the Ab urbe condita by the Roman author Livy (+ AD 17) but also hint at Gustav Vasa’s heroic war of independence against his predecessor, King Kristian II of Denmark. With reference to the inventories drawn up in the 1540s and 1550s, however, it is not unlikely that the paintings depicted the legend of Lucretia, which was very popular and widespread in Northern Europe during the early Renaissance. This fits in well with Gustav Vasa’s ambition to create representative interiors decorated with moralizing and entertaining narrative scenes from the Bible and classical authors like Livy and Ovid
Det 26. Nordiska Ikonografiska Symposiet
Get PDFRapport från det 26. Nordiska Ikonografiska Symposiet som avhölls i Trondheim och Stiklestad, Norge, den 30 augusti–2 september 2018. Temat för symposiet var ”Bilder i Norden ca 900–1700”. Innehåller en lista med föredrag och föredragshållare. De nordiska ikonografiska symposierna arrangeras sedan 1968 vartannat år i de nordiska länderna enligt ett rullande schema
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Get PDFRomanesque Movements in Time and Place. Some examples from Churches on Gotland
The reliefs on walls, portals and baptismal fonts on and in the Mediaeval Gotlandic stone churches offer important information about the time and the society in which they were created. Details in certain images are difficult to interpret as illustrating only biblical texts and should probably be considered as having a double meaning involving not only religious themes but also various references to contemporary historical events. These images may be related to the Cistercian abbey in Roma and the powerful social groups in Gotland society engaged in warfare and church politics. This article deals with the visualization of Mediaeval travel and movement, especially pilgrimage, and links between different times and places, from the Adoration of the Magi to contemporary pilgrimage and crusades
The Protection of the Dignity of Laboratory Animals in Switzerland
Get PDFThe article discusses the question whether Swiss law offers an equal level of protection for animals being used in research projects and those being genetically modified and bred for these projects. To answer this question the article argues, first, that animal dignity has a sacrosanct core content which prohibits highly cruel treatments or killing methods, denial of an animal’s essential natural needs as well as exclusive instrumentalization. However, a use that does not infringe the sacrosanct core can be justified by prevailing interests, as is the case within authorisation procedures of animal experimentation. During the approval procedure, the competent authority conducts a harm–benefit assessment to define, rate and evaluate the conflicting interests. Next, the article examines the issue of the breeding of genetically modified laboratory animals being subject to laxer requirements than other animal experiments. The projects are subject to a simplified procedure that does not include a “traditional” harm–benefit assessment. The article argues that the harm–benefit assessment is the key to a sufficient protection of laboratory animals and their dignity. Due to the purely “trailed” assessment as well as potential negligence in regard to reporting obligations regarding strains suffered by the animal, the application of the simplified procedure raises certain doubts as to whether it provides a sufficient protection of animal dignity. Moreover, it is argued that the breeding of genetically modified animals exclusively for test purposes constitutes an excessive instrumentalization of these animals. The article, therefore, weighs the instrumentalization against (human) interests, but holds that even if some prevailing interests are conceivable, the severe infringement of animal dignity cannot be justified
Läsvärt: Performance og Ikonografi. Foredrag fra det 23. nordiske ikonografiske symposium, Sæby 27.–30. august 2012. Red. Carsten Bach-Nielsen, Martin Wangsgaard Jürgensen & Jens Vellev. Forlaget Hikuin, Højbjerg 2017.
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Get PDFTitle: From Heretic to Saint. The Iconography of Giordano Bruno through Four Centuries
One of the most contested and discussed figures in a number of disciplines, such as Philosophy, Theology, History, Cosmology and a number of others, is the Renaissance philosopher Giordano Bruno, burnt at the stake in Rome in 1600. This article tries to sort out his complicated iconography by following the series of portraits through the centuries, identifying their relevant contexts and the functions they were meant to fulfil, and also attempting to throw some light on the way mental conceptions and visual representations interact in the process of construction and re-construction of images in different historical and ideological contexts. Nearly all these images were produced during the nineteenth century, i.e., in the century when scholars first started to form more precise ideas of Bruno as a historic figure, when a demand for his visual image was created, and a number of iconographic conventions came into existence. Apart from a few exceptional cases, the material falls into three fairly distinct groups that correspond to three different views, or mental images, of Bruno, each one produced in a special context and dominating for a certain period of time
Petra Gröminger: Bladmannens ansikten. The Green Man som konsthistoriskt motiv och nutida fenomen, Halmstad 2017
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Get PDFTitle: Who kicks the cockerel? Body language and narrativity in 12th century art
This article examines a series of 12th century stone reliefs attributed to the so-called Skara-Forshem master who was active in the Swedish province of Västergötland. Dating from the 1130s and 1140s, these reliefs are among the earliest extant examples of Romanesque stone carving in medieval Sweden. Scholars have pointed out the importance and the vivid expressiveness of this work. The aim of the present study is to demonstrate how the Skara-Forshem master also makes use of feudal body language and continental fashion in order to create vivid narrative scenes