Wiener Jahrbuch für Kunstgeschichte, Band LIV

The 54th volume of the Wiener Jahrbuch für Kunstgeschichte contains seven contributions of renowned art historians, dedicated to questions of reconstructions on the basis of historic sources and iconography. Christine M. Boeckl (USA) analyzes the iconographic traditions of S. Luke as a painter in Eastern and Western European art; she shows their origins, parallels, and characteristics on the basis of iconologie investigations of frescoes, paintings, and manuscripts. According to the authoress, a separation of east and west became concise only in the 15th century, probably because of the increasing power of the guilds and academics of arts. The newest theories refer to similar developments within the palaeologic filed. Norbert Wibiral (A) deals with the question of the original location of the altars inside the Carolingian Marienkirche of Aachen. He evaluates historic sources from the 9th century as well as results of architectural investigations and thus adds new reconstruction suggestions to the scientific discussion. Michael Grünwalds (A) contribution is dedicated to the special iconography of the Evengeliary of S. Peter (New York, Pierpont Morgan Library, M. 781), which reflects the reform of the monasteries of the realm that have also been transferred to S. Emmeram in Regensburg. The scriptorium of the archabbey as well as the reformed monasteries in the whole Salzburg region used this evangeliary as an iconographic source throughout the 12th century. Frithjof Schwartz (D) dedicated his study to Giottos croce dipinto from S. Maria Novella, which - after having been restored from 1987 to 2000 - was placed underneath the fourth belt in the nave, according to the so far assumed historical hanging. However, the cross of S. Maria Novella was no more in situ since the Quattrocento, and, up to now, it was not possible to determine the original position. F. Schwartz therefore analyzed different sources in order to find out the former position of the cross. A further contribution was written by Karin Gludovatz (A/D), who put her profound knowledge on painting in late gothic art into this article on self conciousness of the artist being reflected by the signitures of Jan van Eyck. The study of Hanns-Paul Ties (I) concerns itself with a rarely considered painting by Albrecht Altdorfer - Lot and his daughters - in a larger context. The essay represents the first study, which deals with questions of interpretation of contents as well as function and historical perception of the picture. The character of the painting as a "work of art" according to the author points at a use, which included both the benefit of pictorial as well as inventive qualities and, above this, the joy in picanterie, to which the painting referred. Last but not least, Christian Hechts (D) atricle allowes to take a look behind the all of the Mala Strana cemetery in Prague, in which many personalities of Pragues spiritual life were burried. Special attention is given to the monument of the last Passau Archibishop Leopold Leonhard Count of Thun and Hohenstein, who deceased in Prague in 1826.