Mittelalterbilder der Moderne: Kirchen zwischen Steinsichtigkeit und Farbe

Verena Ummenhofer

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Mittelalterbilder der Moderne

Kirchen zwischen Steinsichtigkeit und Farbe

Verena Ummenhofer

Overview

About this book

This volume examines periodic changes in color design in medieval churches during the 19th and 20th century. What thus catches the eye is the alternation of phases that brought forth sacred spaces with reduced color and even visible stone and such spaces that strove for colorfulness. The ideologies that stand behind this process are analyzed by considering exemplary restoration measures in individual church buildings against the backdrop of the respective self-conception of monument maintenance, but also more general societal notions. It is shown how much artistic design is inherent in the practice of preserving.

Were the Middle Ages colorful? New perspectives on the history of monument maintenance
Consideration, for instance, of the Bremen Cathedral, St. Jacobi in Göttingen, and St. Patrokli in Soest

Author / Editor information

Verena Ummenhofer, art historian, monument conservator; Office for the Protection of Monuments and Sites of Lower Saxony.

Topics

(Deutsch)

Language: German
Publisher: Deutscher Kunstverlag (DKV)
Audience: scholars in Art History, Heritage Conservation, Architecture
Pages
- Main content: 240
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 35
- Coloured Illustrations: 34
Keywords: history of architecture; historic preservation; conservation and restoration and its history; 19th century; 20th century; Bremen cathedral; Bamberg cathedral; Great St Martin Church Cologne; St Georg's church; Cologne; Basilica of St Severin; Cologne; Basilica of the Holy Apostles; Cologne; St Jacobi church; Göttingen; church of St Quirin; Neuss; St Patrokli church; Soest

Paperback

Published: November 21, 2022
ISBN: 9783422986947