Decline – Metamorphosis – Rebirth International Conference for PhD Students Ljubljana, 18th – 19th September 2014 With analysis of Slavko Pengov's fresco in Vila Bled (1948) as the starting point, the presentation focused on examining the transformation of Christian iconography in Slovenian socialist realist painting. It examined the image of Saint Christopher, which was modified into a personification of the new socialist Yugoslavia for the purpose of artistic decoration of one of Josip Broz Tito's residences. Thus far, case studies of similar ways of introducing typically Christian subjects into entirely profane contexts have not received sufficient scholarly attention; not only did the study present an example of such practice, but it did so by analysing it within the oeuvre of an artist, who focused almost exclusively on church commissions in his early career, only to become the leading painter of state commissioned frescoes in the post-WW2 period. Summary: http://issuu.com/znanstvenazalozbaff/docs/international_conference_for_phd_st
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COBISS.SI-ID: 37728813International conference, Ljubljana, Ursuline Church, 29. 11. 2014 In their contribution authors presented the view of the art historian on the organs in the Ursuline church of Holy Trinity in Ljubljana. The focus of the presentation was on the organ case and its decoration. In this context different examples of organ cases, mainly from baroque period, with its rich decoration (painting and sculptures) were presented, iconographical analysis of the above mentioned examples was made and the question of art patrons was taken into consideration. The authors especially pointed out the organs/organ cases, commissioned by aristocratic patrons, the important examples of representation of the profane patrons in the sacred space. In the last part of presentation Janez Vurnik Jr., the designer of the organ case in the Ursuline church and his enormous contribution to the church furnishing's design in the various Slovenian churches was presented.
B.03 Paper at an international scientific conference