In the paper, presented at the international conference organised by the Collecting and Display Seminar Group London and the Centre André Chastel, INHA, Paris, the author discussed international art dealers, their role in the emerging art market in Inner Austria (especially its Styrian capital Graz) in the second half of the 17th century and ther influence on the demand of Inner Austrian collectors. The presentation focused mostly on the role of Vienna-based Flemish art dealers Forchondt and their contacts with their Styrian clientele, who were mostly members of higher Styrian aristocracy. The first findings were presented based on the study of archival fonds in Antwerp (Felixarchief) and Graz (Steiermarkisches Landesarchiv), which testify that the Styrian clientele was relatively inexperienced with but willing to commission artworks and precious items. Due to relatively high demand, Forchondts started to deliever the parcels directly to Graz. Several items purchased from them can be identified in the archival records in addition to some surviving artworks.
B.03 Paper at an international scientific conference
COBISS.SI-ID: 40528685The monograph by three authors was published within the framework of the well received exhibition with the same title in Brežice Castle. It is dedicated to Ignaz Maria I. Count of Attems, one of the most important art commissioners, builders and patrons of the arts in modern age Styria. In the publication and at the exhibition, B. Murovec presented ceiling paintings in Attems' town and country residences and put them in context of crucial contemporary artworks in Rome and Paris as well as in the context of their commissioners. In the great hall of Brežice castle the commissioner presented himself to his guests with generosity; the personifications were partly painted after graphic series Le Cabinet des Beaux Arts by Charles Perrault (Paris, 1690). The paintings of Brežice great hall were also put in context of Attems' construction of family iconography. After he presented himself as great patron of the arts in Štatenberk, Brežice and partly in the Graz town palace, in the second phase he emphasized Hercules' and his own journey to Olympus in his town palace in Graz, Slovenska Bistrica and Gösting.
F.28 Organising an exhibition
COBISS.SI-ID: 86606849At summer-school for art history students of the universities Maribor and Graz, B. Murovec explained the role of Ignaz Maria Count of Attems for many still preserved Baroque frescoes in Styria. She also prepared a guided tour for the participants of the exhibition in Slovenska Bistrica castle. Based on her research the role of Ignaz Maria Attems as the creator of the social status of the Attems family in Styria was demonstrated. Attems was shown as an ambitious art commissioner who created the iconography of the frescoes in his residences together with his painters Remb, Waginger and Flurer. B. Murovec placed Attems' frescoes in secular and sacral spaces into a wider european context, based on influences of the most important artworks and art commissioners in Rome and Paris. The portraits of Attems with his sons as well as of his wife and her children were placed in the context of contemporary european family portraits.
F.18 Transfer of new know-how to direct users (seminars, fora, conferences)
COBISS.SI-ID: 42174509Member of the project group F. Lazarini was one of the editors of the scientific monograph about Betnava Manor, issued as the first book of the new series Castellologica Slovenica, published by the Milko Kos Historical Institute and France Stele Institute of Art History at the Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts. Twelve historians, art historians and archeologists researched thoroughly the history, architecture and furnishings of the Betnava Manor. Among former owners of the manor were Auerspergs, Herbersteins, Khisls and Brandis, who built and furnished the manor as a representative aristocratic countryside residence in the time of Renaissance and Baroque. Beside the editorial work of F. Lazarinija, two members of the project group, T. Košak and P. Vidmar, were involved as authors in the preparation of the monograph.
C.02 Editorial board of a national monograph
COBISS.SI-ID: 294341888In the presentation held at the international scientific conference, the author focused on the painted genealogies of the Styrian nobility around 1700, above all on the genealogies of the counts of Leslie, Herberstein and Dietriechstein. She put them in the context of other contemporary central european genealogies, particularly focusing on the earls of Esterhazy and Auersperg. In accordance with the genealogical point of view of the early modern nobility, after which everything political was considered as personal and everything historical as genealogical, the painted and engraved genealogies were one of the most effective visual media of the representation of the nobility. The scientific conference was organized within the framework of the project and in cooperation with the University of Graz. Beside project members the conference was attended by many austrian, german and czech researchers dealing with the representation of the nobility. The papers stimulated lively discussions giving evidence of the actuality and significance of the project topic.
B.03 Paper at an international scientific conference
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