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10.4000/perspective.2708

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10.4000/perspective.2708

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Chronology, periodicity, polychrony: times in the history of medieval art

Abstract

Establishing the chronology of works of art is one of the first objectives of art history. For the Middle Ages in general, the dearth of written documents means that the work itself is an important source, providing researchers with stylistic, archaeological, and textual information (inscriptions, coats of arms, epigraphy, etc.). This area of art history, long left unexplored, owes its originality to the passions it aroused, between nationalism and romanticism, and its use of scientific practices, particularly archaeology. This unusual situation, leading to a privileged relationship between objects and researchers, has drastically modified the perception of temporalities. Working hic and nunc with works from the Middle Ages amounts to a palpable and measurable confrontation with the history of art. It also reveals the hermeneutics of art known in Germanic scholarship as Kunstwissenschaft.

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