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Original scientific paper

Monuments of Art as Historical Documents

Vladimir Peter Goss ; Department of History of Art, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Rijeka, Rijeka, Croatia


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Abstract

Using examples from his scholarly practice, the author deals with the issue of the documentary value of monuments of fine art, and the role of the art historian in the research process. He criticizes an over-reliance on historical sources, and pleads for a return to a serious study of the language of art. Only after having completed his analysis should an art historian test his/her conclusions in cooperation with other historical and humanist disciplines. The only true professional interdisciplinary approach is teamwork, an appropriate conclusion for a text dedicated to a person who has done so much to promote teamwork among humanist disciplines in Croatian scholarship.

Keywords

Medieval studies; Documents; Monuments; Eastern Slavonia; Rural Romanesque; Saxon diaspora

Hrčak ID:

25866

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/25866

Publication date:

9.7.2008.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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