Performance of images and serial analysis of Romanesque capitals: new theorical and methodological approaches

• Grant number: 17/07234-8
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Doctorate
• Effective date (Start): September 01, 2017
• Effective date (End): August 31, 2018
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - History - Ancient and Medieval History
• Principal Investigator: Maria Cristina Correia Leandro Pereira
• Grantee: Aline Benvegnú dos Santos
• Supervisor: Pierre-Olivier Dittmar
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Research place: École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), France
• Associated to the scholarship: 15/12256-5 - Between form and content of images: on circulation and model in Romanesque Catalonia, BP.DR

Abstract

From the critique of medieval images uses as a source of a Traditional Art History, we will seek, on this work, to approach a possibility, singularity and it's issues to a practical Historical-social work through images. It requires analyzing a corpus of sculptures from the cloister of three Catalan monasteries from new concepts, aiming at a construction of theoretical and methodological tools coherent with local historical questions. Initially, we are interested in the notion of images "performance" to approach the active elements and the dynamics of the participants on the place where they're found and not just preconceived according to stylistic categories. In a second moment, we will start from the notion of "agency" to highlight images relations in each column's capital of the buildings, trying to perceive the connection between them. Finally, we will relate as previous issues following a "serial analysis" approach between images of monasteries, constituting comparative groups in order to try the structural scent of the images in that region at that moment.