The book deals comprehensively with all known and preserved pieces of monastic architectural sculpture of the 12th and 13th centuries in Slovenia. It is a work of great significance, because the topmost achievements in Romanesque and Early Gothic art in the Slovene lands were produced exactly for monasteries as the linking agents in the art world of the time. For this reason the surviving materials are of considerable importance for a wider European space. In spite of this fact, architectural sculpture of this period was only rarely the topic of discussion in earlier scholarly literature.
COBISS.SI-ID: 244411136
Presented in detail are patron saints of the city and the diocese of Ljubljana and the Province of Carniola; the history of their worship and patronage are discussed and their visual image or iconography. The selected patron saints represent the entire Carniola, which then reached also to the Karst and deep into Istria. Clearly topical were the saints related to the ancient Aemona, since the Roman city was then identified with Ljubljana. Ljubljana, as the capital of Carniola, proves to be a centre of artistic influence, both in terms of formal questions and contents, for a wider territory.
COBISS.SI-ID: 30842925
Highlighted is the aspect of Jože Plečnik's architecture that has often been neglected, because the master gave priority to formal questions. At stake are purely technical problems of his solutions, which show great engineering skill and excellent knowledge of building materials. Plečnik was among the pioneers in using reinforced iron in Austria; he employed it in the business part of Zacherl House (1903–05) and even in the church of the Holy Spirit (1910–13) in Vienna. Among his most daring ideas is the unrealized project of the Slovene parliament (1947), with a dome on slanted columns.
COBISS.SI-ID: 30845997
Johann Andreas Strauss was one of the leading Baroque painters in Styria. The discovery of his signed and dated (1782) painting of the Crucified Christ in Bistřica pod Hostýnem, Moravia, significantly contributes to the understanding of the connections between countries and the migration of images and artists in the 18th century.
COBISS.SI-ID: 30846509
The paper in detail discusses the state of research in the field of photography in Slovenia. This field still remains poorly investigated; the studies of earlier date are focused mainly on technical questions, but in general, with their presentations and critical writings photographers themselves have until recently outdone art historians. At the side of a number of outstanding presentations of photography in Slovenia, a big task for the discipline is to prepare the basic register and evaluation of photographic oeuvres.
COBISS.SI-ID: 30056493