{"title":"DIE ATTRIBUTE DER REVALER KAUFLEUTE – EIN BLICK AUF DAS RETABEL DES MARIENALTARES DER BRUDERSCHAFT DER SCHWARZENHÄUPTER","authors":"Kerttu Palginõmm","doi":"10.12697/bjah.2019.18.04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12697/bjah.2019.18.04","url":null,"abstract":"The article focuses on the Tallinn (Reval) altarpiece of St. Mary's altar ofthe Brotherhood of the Blackheads, attributed to the Bruges Master ofthe Legend of St. Lucy, which arrived in the late medieval city in 1493.The altarpiece is noteworthy for its very dense network of luxuriousdetails like silk, velvet and gold cloth from Italy, ceramics from Spain,tapestries from Netherlands and an oriental carpet from Anatolia. Early \u0000Netherlandish painting is notable for the very detailed, texture andlight-sensitive rendering of everyday and luxury objects, from whichthe works of Jan van Eyck are the best examples.","PeriodicalId":52089,"journal":{"name":"Baltic Journal of Art History","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2019-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42263295","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"THE BALTIC PORTRAIT AND STILL LIFE PAINTER ALEXANDRA VON BERCKHOLTZ (1821–1899)","authors":"Natalie Gutgesell","doi":"10.12697/bjah.2019.18.08","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12697/bjah.2019.18.08","url":null,"abstract":"The Baltic artist Alexandra von Berckholtz was among the mostimportant portrait painters of her time. However, her works haddisappeared from art-historical memory because, after her death, theywere sold and spread all over the world. An international researchproject started in 2014 was able to rediscover her works and her lifestory.Von Berckholtz was given her first art lessons in 1841 by the courtpainter Louis Wagner in Karlsruhe, Germany. From 1847 until 1854she studied in Paris at the studio of the history painter Joseph-NicolasRobert-Fleury, who had considerable influence on her pictorialstyle which combined realism and idealism. Another significantinfluence was Richard Lauchert, a former student and close friendof Franz Xaver Winterhalter. Von Berckholtz’s numerous travels,e.g. to Switzerland, France, and the Czech Republic, were also arich source of inspiration. She changed the conventions of nobilityportrait and concentrated on still lifes in her later work, in whichshe reflected the Dutch style of the Baroque period. Alexandra vonBerckholtz associated with important personalities from the fieldsof art, music, politics, and technology, and was socially active.","PeriodicalId":52089,"journal":{"name":"Baltic Journal of Art History","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2019-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42040687","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"WOOD SPECIES AND THE QUESTION OF ORIGIN: REASSESSING THE SCULPTURE PRODUCTION IN THE DIOCESE OF TURKU (ÅBO) DURING THE 14TH CENTURY","authors":"Katri Vuola","doi":"10.12697/bjah.2019.18.02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12697/bjah.2019.18.02","url":null,"abstract":"It was oak that was preferred abroad, sometimes limewood, for such carvings. In the Nordic countries birch and other of our common wood species were used for this, yet, in the old account books one can also find remarks on the imports of wood during the 15th and 16th centuries, possibly for the material of the artworks, for the most part possibly mainly for the chairs and chests in the castles as well as bishops’ seats and choir screens, e.g. for the needs of the churches.1","PeriodicalId":52089,"journal":{"name":"Baltic Journal of Art History","volume":"18 1","pages":"75-104"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2019-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43791335","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"DEVELOPMENTS IN APPROACHES TO HERITAGE IN ESTONIA: MONUMENTS, VALUES, AND PEOPLE","authors":"Kurmo Konsa","doi":"10.12697/bjah.2019.18.05","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12697/bjah.2019.18.05","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this article is to look at the ways in which heritage isapproached, based on the conceptual framework of critical inheritanceresearch. In case of approaches to inheritance, I distinguish betweenobject-based, value-based, and people-centered approaches –depending on which aspects of the heritage are at the heart of theinheritance management process. I use different case studies fromthe Estonian context as examples. I am particularly interested in thechanges in heritage management in the time frame of the 1970s and1980s to the present day.In order to describe object-based heritage management, I willuse Kalvi Aluve’s book “The story about architectural monuments”(1983). It is a popular work targeted for the general public, which iswhy many of the views and concepts that are obviously used on adaily basis by those involved in the matter and have often becomean invisible part of the work culture, are explained in detail anddefined. Value-based inheritance management sets at the heart ofheritage the values attributed to heritage by the various stakeholdersin society. While in object-based heritage management people act asgroups against the backdrop of monuments, this approach shifts thevalues that people attach to heritage objects and heritage phenomenato the forefront.","PeriodicalId":52089,"journal":{"name":"Baltic Journal of Art History","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2019-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47853372","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"CARL JULIUS SENFF (1804–1832) ALS ARCHITEKT UND GRAFIKER. ERGÄNZUNGEN ZUR BAUGESCHICHTE DER UNIVERSITÄT ZU TARTU (DORPAT)","authors":"Anu Ormisson-Lahe, Kristiina Tiideberg","doi":"10.12697/bjah.2019.18.07","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12697/bjah.2019.18.07","url":null,"abstract":"Carl Julius Senff (1804–1832) as an Architect and Graphic Arti st. Additionsto the Building Hi story of the University of Tartu Ensemble.","PeriodicalId":52089,"journal":{"name":"Baltic Journal of Art History","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2019-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48155308","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Buildings, Portraits and Trees. The University Landscape of Greifswald in Pomerania Caspar","authors":"K. Heck","doi":"10.12697/bjah.2018.16.01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12697/bjah.2018.16.01","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52089,"journal":{"name":"Baltic Journal of Art History","volume":"16 1","pages":"5-14"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2019-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.12697/bjah.2018.16.01","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43344717","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"THE UNKNOWN PROJECTS OF PIETRO ANTONIO TREZZINI. ON THE TYPOLOGY OF CENTRALLY PLANNED CHURCHES IN RUSSIAN AND EUROPEAN BAROQUE ARCHITECTURE","authors":"G. Smirnov","doi":"10.12697/bjah.2019.17.03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12697/bjah.2019.17.03","url":null,"abstract":"The article deals with two unknown projects made by the Swiss-Italian architect Pietro Antonio Trezzini, who was active in Russiabetween 1726 and 1751. According to the Commission of the Senate,in 1747 Trezzini designed a five-domed cathedral in Stavropol, forwhich he provided two design options. One of these projects, whichwas approved by Empress Elizaveta Petrovna, was realized between1750 and 1757. In both projects, Trezzini presented the cathedralas a monumental five-domed centrally planned church, which isan integral part of Trezzini’s designs. All but one of the Orthodoxchurches designed by the architect had five domes (we know of13 such designs, including all the alternative versions). AlthoughTrezzini was not a initiator of this new type of five-domed centrallyplanned church, his work displays the most mature and diversedevelopment of this approach in Russian Baroque architecture. The article describes the general features of Trezziniʼs churches andcertain individual ones as well.Trezzini’s projects for five-domed churches were directly relatedto the revival of a traditional type of Orthodox church proclaimedby the Empress Elizaveta Petrovna. This idea was widely reflected inRussian church architecture of the time, but its concrete realisationwas rather varied. An attempt is made in article to characterise thissituation by briefly focusing on a comparison of Trezzini’s designsand the five-domed centrally planned churches designed by otherarchitects.The five-domed churches, which were revived in mid-18th centuryRussia and persistently promoted as a national and Orthodox solution,actually had nothing in common with local medieval tradition.Typologically, the five-domed Russian churches of the mid-18thcentury were rooted in European architecture, namely in ItalianRenaissance and Central European Baroque architecture. The mostimportant European sources of inspiration were probably St Peter’sCathedral in Rome (a project by Michelangelo), the Church of StCatherine in Stockholm and the Frauenkirche in Dresden, which theleading mid-18th century architects in Russia were undoubtedlyfamiliar with European, primarily Italian, churches with twosymmetrically placed towers on the western facade and a domeover the intersection, for example, Sant’Agnese in Agone in Rome,should also be taken into consideration.","PeriodicalId":52089,"journal":{"name":"Baltic Journal of Art History","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2019-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42977746","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"RETURNING TO LUIGI RUSCA’S PROJECT FOR ST NICHOLAS CHURCH IN TALLINN","authors":"G. Smirnov","doi":"10.12697/bjah.2019.17.04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12697/bjah.2019.17.04","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52089,"journal":{"name":"Baltic Journal of Art History","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2019-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48510161","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"THE CONCEPT OF RUSSIAN ARCHITECTURE IN THE BALTIC PROVINCES BETWEEN THE GREAT NORTHERN WAR AND THE COSMOPOLITANISM OF THE 19TH CENTURY","authors":"Juhan Maiste","doi":"10.12697/bjah.2019.17.05","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12697/bjah.2019.17.05","url":null,"abstract":"The goal of this article is to examine the role of the new Russian rulingpower as it related to cultural policy in the Baltic provinces betweenthe Great Northern War (1700–1721) and the Russian Revolution (1917),in order to engender a discussion about the Russian influence inEstonia’s architectural history – its content and meaning – based onprimary sources in the archives of Estonia, St Petersburg and Moscow.The historiography of this topic dates back nearly a century; as aneighbouring country and an important centre of political power andculture, the influence of St Petersburg as the main Russian metropolishas been always been taken into consideration and studied in thehistory of Estonian art history. The articles by Sergey Androsovand Georgy Smirnov that appear in this volume have provided theinspiration to try and re-examine the entire spectrum of Estonia’sposition between East and West, and to point out the main subjectsin this new context and the relationship to the new geography ofarchitecture in the Age of Enlightenment and the stylistic changesof the 19th century.","PeriodicalId":52089,"journal":{"name":"Baltic Journal of Art History","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2019-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48324948","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"TOD! – GRAB! – VERWESUNG! VISUALISIERUNG VON TOD UND STERBEN IN DEN ESTNISCHEN FREMDSPRACHIGEN FUNERALDRUCKEN DES 17. UND 18. JAHRHUNDERTS","authors":"Tiiu Reimo","doi":"10.12697/bjah.2019.17.01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12697/bjah.2019.17.01","url":null,"abstract":"The materials in the Retrospective National Bibliography of foreignlanguagepublications printed in Estonia before 1830 provide variousopportunities for analysing the production of local print shops.The article focuses on the illustrative elements in printed funeralsermons and works of poetry, which cast a light on the memorialand commemorative customs in the early modern period.Visual decorative elements like headpieces and vignettes had ageneral symbolic meaning and were used to illustrate funeral textsirrespective of the age, vocation or position of the deceased. Oneobjective was to remind the viewers of their own mortality. Skulls andcoffins were among the main vignette motifs used to depict Death,and less often, Death was depicted as a skeleton or the Grim Reaper.Inscriptions added to the vignettes emphasised relevant passagesfrom the Bible to strengthen one’s faith. The fact that the same orsimilar vignettes were simultaneously used in different countries isnoteworthy. The motifs for visualising Death and mourning used inthe foreign-language funeral publications in Estonia are very similarto those used in Sweden and Finland during the same period.","PeriodicalId":52089,"journal":{"name":"Baltic Journal of Art History","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2019-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44898289","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}