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Presentations by Pavla Tichá
The project Migrating Art Historians has risen from the students and teachers’ experiences at the... more The project Migrating Art Historians has risen from the students and teachers’ experiences at the Department of Art History, Masaryk University, that they have been gathering on French medieval pilgrimage paths for the past five years. What they came to realize is that observing artwork while traveling on foot considerably changes the ability to understand it and makes one study the artwork as an actual event. Of course, behind the process of image creation, there is primarily the intention of a patron and the ability of the artisans. However, it is the pilgrim who – in a particular moment and at a particular place – apprehends and thus possesses the image. Because of this immediate personal contact, the immobile images gain the capacity to enlarge their own visual impact and to retroactively grasp a part of the movement dynamism. That is why a group of twelve students decided to widen their experience as well as to put it into a specific scientific framework and – with the help of modern technology – to transmit it to the wider public.
Teaching Documents by Pavla Tichá
The short documentary movies produced within the project Migrating Art Historians deal with vario... more The short documentary movies produced within the project Migrating Art Historians deal with various topics linked to the phenomenon of pilgrimage in the Middle Ages and today. The films 2 to 5 speak about the different perceptions and intellectual constructions about the Medieval art; about the importance of light in the life of a pilgrim and in the life of an artifact; about the perception of time during the pilgrimage and about the alimentation of a medieval and contemporary pilgrim.
This first documentary movie from the cycle produced within the experimental scientific project "... more This first documentary movie from the cycle produced within the experimental scientific project "Migrating Art Historians". It deals with pilgrimage in different religious traditions, with the sacral and secular aspects of pilgrimage and with the common points and the differences between the medieval and contemporary pilgrimage. For more information about the project: http://www.migratingarthistorians.com/
Books by Pavla Tichá
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Is it possible to reconstruct the feeling of a medieval pilgrim walking towards the sacred? No, i... more Is it possible to reconstruct the feeling of a medieval pilgrim walking towards the sacred? No, it is not. And yet, the experimental project Migrating Art Historians sought to delve into this impossibility. Journeying by foot over more than 1500km, twelve modern pilgrims – students and scholars from Masaryk University – reached some of the most impressive artistic monuments of medieval France.
One year later, this book presents their intellectual, human, and art historical theoretical know-how, transformed by the experience of their bodies. In this context, exhausted and activated bodies became instruments asking new questions to medieval artworks and sources. Structured as a walk along pilgrimage routes, this book presents firstly the landscape, followed by liminal zones, before leading the reader inside medieval churches and ultimately towards the sacred. Original scientific art historical research combines with personal engagement. What emerges is the subject confronted with the experience of medieval art.
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Conferences by Pavla Tichá
Communities of various common denominators participated throughout ages in the conception and per... more Communities of various common denominators participated throughout ages in the conception and perception of artworks as authors, sponsors, and audiences. Fine arts play a pivotal role as a means of expression, transmission, and reinforcement of the values shared by the whole community or some of its members/adherents. The authorship itself can be thought of as a collective creative state. Through community engagement in fine arts, individuals can find common ground, celebrate a diversity, and contribute to the enrichment and cohesion of society, but they can also reinforce exclusivity leading to the community’s isolation. The conference’s aim is to reflect on the circumstances that condition the creation of an artwork as a result of broader interactions and complex relationships, and conversely on the contributions of the artwork to the formation of societies.
Papers by Pavla Tichá
Klára Doležalová et al. (eds), The Role of Material and Visual Cultures in the Christianization of the Latin West (= Convivium Supplementum III, 2021), 2021
Throughout the fourth century, two religious communities co-existed and conducted their mysteries... more Throughout the fourth century, two religious communities co-existed and conducted their mysteries on the Vatican Hill. Phrygianum hosted the cult of Cybele, the Great Mother
of Gods, while St Peter’s Basilica, with its hypothetical baptistery, belonged to the Christian community. Combining the study of material remnants with analysis of literary sources, this article aims to improve understanding of the function and perception of these two ritual spaces and the environment of the Vatican, from modern theories of lived space (H. Lefebvre) and embodied memory (É. Durkheim and R. Rappaport). The materials provide evidence of the perceived space of the Metroac shrine and baptistery, and the conceived space of both taurobolium and baptism. What emerges is how one and the same perceived topographical space on the Vatican differed dramatically in the ways it was conceived and lived in the experience of the followers of Cybele and of Christians.
Iconographica XX, 2021
On the outskirts of Rome are the remains of a 4th-century semi-underground Hypogeum on the Via Li... more On the outskirts of Rome are the remains of a 4th-century semi-underground Hypogeum on the Via Livenza. The interior, dominated by a water basin, was covered with high-quality syncretic frescoes and mosaics. Their surviving parts mainly depict Diana's hunt and the miraculum fontis. This study focuses on the purpose of the building. After rejecting previous hypotheses (baptistery, nymphaeum, sanctuary), it places the iconography that thematises resurgence and refreshment in the funerary context of the extra muros area where the building is located. This contextualization implies that the hypogeum was part of a funerary complex used by a syncretic group of individuals such as a collegium or family.
The project Migrating Art Historians has risen from the students and teachers’ experiences at the... more The project Migrating Art Historians has risen from the students and teachers’ experiences at the Department of Art History, Masaryk University, that they have been gathering on French medieval pilgrimage paths for the past five years. What they came to realize is that observing artwork while traveling on foot considerably changes the ability to understand it and makes one study the artwork as an actual event. Of course, behind the process of image creation, there is primarily the intention of a patron and the ability of the artisans. However, it is the pilgrim who – in a particular moment and at a particular place – apprehends and thus possesses the image. Because of this immediate personal contact, the immobile images gain the capacity to enlarge their own visual impact and to retroactively grasp a part of the movement dynamism. That is why a group of twelve students decided to widen their experience as well as to put it into a specific scientific framework and – with the help of modern technology – to transmit it to the wider public.
The short documentary movies produced within the project Migrating Art Historians deal with vario... more The short documentary movies produced within the project Migrating Art Historians deal with various topics linked to the phenomenon of pilgrimage in the Middle Ages and today. The films 2 to 5 speak about the different perceptions and intellectual constructions about the Medieval art; about the importance of light in the life of a pilgrim and in the life of an artifact; about the perception of time during the pilgrimage and about the alimentation of a medieval and contemporary pilgrim.
This first documentary movie from the cycle produced within the experimental scientific project "... more This first documentary movie from the cycle produced within the experimental scientific project "Migrating Art Historians". It deals with pilgrimage in different religious traditions, with the sacral and secular aspects of pilgrimage and with the common points and the differences between the medieval and contemporary pilgrimage. For more information about the project: http://www.migratingarthistorians.com/
Become member https://www.earlymedievalstudies.com/EN/membership.html and receive this Convivium
Is it possible to reconstruct the feeling of a medieval pilgrim walking towards the sacred? No, i... more Is it possible to reconstruct the feeling of a medieval pilgrim walking towards the sacred? No, it is not. And yet, the experimental project Migrating Art Historians sought to delve into this impossibility. Journeying by foot over more than 1500km, twelve modern pilgrims – students and scholars from Masaryk University – reached some of the most impressive artistic monuments of medieval France.
One year later, this book presents their intellectual, human, and art historical theoretical know-how, transformed by the experience of their bodies. In this context, exhausted and activated bodies became instruments asking new questions to medieval artworks and sources. Structured as a walk along pilgrimage routes, this book presents firstly the landscape, followed by liminal zones, before leading the reader inside medieval churches and ultimately towards the sacred. Original scientific art historical research combines with personal engagement. What emerges is the subject confronted with the experience of medieval art.
Communities of various common denominators participated throughout ages in the conception and per... more Communities of various common denominators participated throughout ages in the conception and perception of artworks as authors, sponsors, and audiences. Fine arts play a pivotal role as a means of expression, transmission, and reinforcement of the values shared by the whole community or some of its members/adherents. The authorship itself can be thought of as a collective creative state. Through community engagement in fine arts, individuals can find common ground, celebrate a diversity, and contribute to the enrichment and cohesion of society, but they can also reinforce exclusivity leading to the community’s isolation. The conference’s aim is to reflect on the circumstances that condition the creation of an artwork as a result of broader interactions and complex relationships, and conversely on the contributions of the artwork to the formation of societies.
Klára Doležalová et al. (eds), The Role of Material and Visual Cultures in the Christianization of the Latin West (= Convivium Supplementum III, 2021), 2021
Throughout the fourth century, two religious communities co-existed and conducted their mysteries... more Throughout the fourth century, two religious communities co-existed and conducted their mysteries on the Vatican Hill. Phrygianum hosted the cult of Cybele, the Great Mother
of Gods, while St Peter’s Basilica, with its hypothetical baptistery, belonged to the Christian community. Combining the study of material remnants with analysis of literary sources, this article aims to improve understanding of the function and perception of these two ritual spaces and the environment of the Vatican, from modern theories of lived space (H. Lefebvre) and embodied memory (É. Durkheim and R. Rappaport). The materials provide evidence of the perceived space of the Metroac shrine and baptistery, and the conceived space of both taurobolium and baptism. What emerges is how one and the same perceived topographical space on the Vatican differed dramatically in the ways it was conceived and lived in the experience of the followers of Cybele and of Christians.
Iconographica XX, 2021
On the outskirts of Rome are the remains of a 4th-century semi-underground Hypogeum on the Via Li... more On the outskirts of Rome are the remains of a 4th-century semi-underground Hypogeum on the Via Livenza. The interior, dominated by a water basin, was covered with high-quality syncretic frescoes and mosaics. Their surviving parts mainly depict Diana's hunt and the miraculum fontis. This study focuses on the purpose of the building. After rejecting previous hypotheses (baptistery, nymphaeum, sanctuary), it places the iconography that thematises resurgence and refreshment in the funerary context of the extra muros area where the building is located. This contextualization implies that the hypogeum was part of a funerary complex used by a syncretic group of individuals such as a collegium or family.