Baroque Parish Churches and Their Decoration: A New Field of Research

Call for Papers

Baroque Parish Churches and Their Decoration: A New Field of Research / Die barocken Pfarrkirchen und ihre Dekoration: Ein neues Feld der Forschung

International Conference
Vienna, 23–25 October, 2017

Program of the Conference Baroque Parish Churches, Vienna 2017

Poster of the Conference Baroque Parish Churches, Vienna 2017

CFP Parish Churches Vienna 2017

Baroque Parish Churches and Their Decoration: A New Field of Research

The Research Group for Baroque Ceiling Painting in Central Europe (BCPCE), the Institute for History of Art and Musicology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Art History of the Czech Academy of Sciences, the Region of Hradec Králové, and the Omnium Association will jointly host a symposium on the painterly decoration of parish churches of Catholic and Lutheran denominations in Vienna from the 23rd to the 25th of October, 2017. The event thus tackles a topic that has been treated rather negatively in the history of art history up until now, compared to the extensive research into the decorative programs of monasteries or pilgrimage churches. In this case, the analysis of the wall and ceiling painting – the core business of the BCPCE – only makes sense in the context of a broad historical contextualization. The general historical and churchhistorical framework must be discussed as well as theological and liturgical aspects of these churches. The period covered in this conference (1500–1800) was bracketed by confessionalism in the sixteenth century, and by the Josephine reforms in the late eighteenth century; the conference focuses on the geographic space with Central Europe largely governed by the Hapsburgs, as well as with Central Germany – that is, the essential parts of the old Holy Roman Empire.

Kilian Ignaz Dientzenhofer, Church of Saint Margaret, Šonov / Schönau (East Bohemia), 1727-1730

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The Role of Religious Confraternities

The Role of Religious Confraternities
in Medieval and Early Modern Art

International Conference
Ljubljana, France Stele Institute of Art History ZRC SAZU,
May 10–12, 2017

Call for Papers, deadline March 10, 2017

PDF CFP Confraternitates Ljubljana 2017

Program “Religious Confraternitie”, Ljubljana 2017

Researching religious confraternities is a great challenge not only in the fields of general and church history but also in art history, as the activities of confraternities reflect strongly in fine arts. Confraternities connected European religious, cultural and artistic space in a way similar to monastic orders. Therefore, only a comprehensive understanding of their activities and role in fine arts can yield complex findings and new evaluation of these themes in a wider context.

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