Ivan Foletti
Biographic Data
| ID | 400767 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ivan Foletti |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ivan |
| FAMILY NAME | Foletti |
| SIGNATURE | FOLETTI I |
| AFFILIATIONS | Masaryk University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3080-7177 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Nature, Culture, and War in the Writings of Step’annos Orbelian
This article reflects on how the transformation of natural sites into cultural spaces was perceived in medieval Armenia, as analysed in The History of the State of Sisakan, written by the bishop and historian Stepanos Orbelian (c. 1250–1304). Orbelian's text opens with the familiar theme of a natural environment being transformed from a desert into a paradise, and describes how monastic colonisation turned a wild landscape into a prosperous cultu…
Sacralizing the Environment
Before the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, "eco-anxiety" had surged to the forefront of public, political, and academic consciousness. 1 The "Fridays for Future" movement, propelled by Greta Thunberg, transformed ecological urgency into a generational rallying cry and intensified debates on the Anthropocene. 2This momentum resonated across academia, where ecocritical scholarship flourished, 3 and into policy, driving ambitious initiati…
Alexei Lidov. A Search for Freedom
A Case for Historiography. No “Medieval” Art Without It
This essay concludes the European project Conques in the Global World , devoted to the longue durée of one of medieval Europe’s most emblematic sites. It contends that no study of the Middle Ages, or of any historical period, can be complete without historiography as its foundation. The case of Conques demonstrates that the “medieval” is not a stable historical entity but a construct continually reshaped by the intellectual, political, and ideolo…
Le mythe de l’« icône »
Le terme « icône », couramment utilisé aujourd’hui pour désigner une image sacrée, en particulier dans le contexte de l’art dit « byzantin », dissimule une construction historiographique récente, bien éloignée de ses significations et usages médiévaux. Cet essai retrace l’histoire de cette construction sémantique, depuis la redécouverte des peintures sur bois dans la Russie impériale du xixe siècle jusqu’à leur réinterprétation par les avant-gard…
Ten Years of Convivium
How to write about images from the medieval world
This article investigates how one of the most eminent Byzantinists of the twentieth century, André Grabar (1896–1990), constructed his own methodology in a balanced dialogue between texts and images. At the very core of this study is his monograph L’empereur dans l’art byzantin (1936), which can be seen as emblematic of Grabar’s approach. However, this article investigates not only Grabar’s methodology but also his personal cultural background. I…
Spaces for Miracles. Constructing Sacred Space through the Body, from Conques to the Mediterranean, and Beyond
Reconstruction of the basilica that preceded the present abbey church at Conques lends itself to exploring the notion of “sacred space”. Like its successor, the original basilica, probably built around 900, was dedicated to St Foy and held her remains. Textual evidence, augmented with (albeit scarce) archeological data, enables a reconstruction of what emerges as an unusual building containing a “physical” sacred space clearly conceived as a plac…
Premodern Popular Culture
Leader article of Pre-Modern “Pop Cultures”? Images and Objects Around the Mediterranean (350-1918 CE). The aim of this monography is to analyze, from the most significant images and objects, to the traditions that have accompanied us to this day
A Convivium with Herbert L. Kessler. Sharing Objects, Sensory Experiences, and Medieval Art History
On the base of two examples - a late antique gold glass and a late medieval venetian painted glass - this introduction wishes to discuss how art was permitting, in pre modern cultures, to go beyond the senses
“Romanesque” Conques as a Neo-Carolingian Project
Begun in 2021, the first team encounter of the project “Conques in the Global World” generated an innovative reinterpretation of the site. Departing from the nineteenth- and twentieth-century explication of Conques as the ideal image of the Romanesque Middle Ages, the site is here envisaged as a space of memorialization of the past for the present. This memorialization, we argue, began in fact at the church’s conception, with the founders’ decisi…
Roundtable. Medieval Art Today, Why
Exchanges and Interactions in a Time of Pandemic
Francesca Dell’Acqua, Iconophilia. Politics, Religion, Preaching, and the Use of Images in Rome, c. 680–880 , London / New York
The Movement and the Experience of "Iconic Presence". An Introduction
This introduction to the special issue "La vrai image. Croire aux images?" in the journal Convivium explores the concept of "iconic presence" and its relationship to movement and experience. The authors argue that the experience of presence is not solely inherent in the image itself, but is generated through a dynamic interplay between the image, the viewer, and the context. They introduce the various contributions to the issue, which examine thi…
De la liminalité à la présence. Les coupoles milanaises, leurs décorations et la naissance du Moyen Âge
Le cas des coupoles milanaises permet de comprendre comment la tradition romaine est transfigurée par le Ve siècle. Si Saint-Aquilin était partie intégrante de cette tradition, à Saint-Victor-en-Ciel-d’or tout est différent. Les décorations et les jeux d’illusions sont remplacés par une austérité efficace qui veut, par des instruments formels inédits, permettre la rencontre intime entre le fidèle et le saint représenté. Concourent à cette mutatio…
The Medieval South Caucasus. Artistic Cultures of Albania, Armenia and Georgia
The medieval South Caucasus
The volume serves as an introduction to what its editors have chosen to call the "artistic cultures" prevalent during the Middle Ages in the region of the South Caucasus. Although far from comprehensive in terms of material, chronology and geography, the volume intends to raise awareness of a region whose artistic wealth and cultural diversity has remained relatively unknown to most medievalists. Stretching from Eastern Anatolia and the Black Sea…
Synthèses et nouveautés autour du « premier art chrétien »
Située entre l’Antiquité romaine et le Moyen Âge, la période à laquelle les textes ici recensés sont dédiés a longtemps été considérée comme une sorte de no man’s land. La notion de « premier art chrétien » qui a fini par définir la production de cette époque, canonisée dans son usage francophone par André Grabar, est en réalité aussi complexe qu’ambiguë. L’historiographie ancienne tend en effet à embrasser une vaste période qui va du iiie siècle…
The Movement and the Experience of "Iconic Presence". An Introduction
This introduction to the special issue "La vrai image. Croire aux images?" in the journal Convivium explores the concept of "iconic presence" and its relationship to movement and experience. The authors argue that the experience of presence is not solely inherent in the image itself, but is generated through a dynamic interplay between the image, the viewer, and the context. They introduce the various contributions to the issue, which examine thi…
Synthèses et nouveautés autour du « premier art chrétien »
Située entre l’Antiquité romaine et le Moyen Âge, la période à laquelle les textes ici recensés sont dédiés a longtemps été considérée comme une sorte de no man’s land. La notion de « premier art chrétien » qui a fini par définir la production de cette époque, canonisée dans son usage francophone par André Grabar, est en réalité aussi complexe qu’ambiguë. L’historiographie ancienne tend en effet à embrasser une vaste période qui va du iiie siècle…
The Medieval South Caucasus. Artistic Cultures of Albania, Armenia and Georgia
The medieval South Caucasus
The volume serves as an introduction to what its editors have chosen to call the "artistic cultures" prevalent during the Middle Ages in the region of the South Caucasus. Although far from comprehensive in terms of material, chronology and geography, the volume intends to raise awareness of a region whose artistic wealth and cultural diversity has remained relatively unknown to most medievalists. Stretching from Eastern Anatolia and the Black Sea…
De la liminalité à la présence. Les coupoles milanaises, leurs décorations et la naissance du Moyen Âge
Le cas des coupoles milanaises permet de comprendre comment la tradition romaine est transfigurée par le Ve siècle. Si Saint-Aquilin était partie intégrante de cette tradition, à Saint-Victor-en-Ciel-d’or tout est différent. Les décorations et les jeux d’illusions sont remplacés par une austérité efficace qui veut, par des instruments formels inédits, permettre la rencontre intime entre le fidèle et le saint représenté. Concourent à cette mutatio…
The Movement and the Experience of "Iconic Presence". An Introduction
This introduction to the special issue "La vrai image. Croire aux images?" in the journal Convivium explores the concept of "iconic presence" and its relationship to movement and experience. The authors argue that the experience of presence is not solely inherent in the image itself, but is generated through a dynamic interplay between the image, the viewer, and the context. They introduce the various contributions to the issue, which examine thi…
Roundtable. Medieval Art Today, Why
Exchanges and Interactions in a Time of Pandemic
Francesca Dell’Acqua, Iconophilia. Politics, Religion, Preaching, and the Use of Images in Rome, c. 680–880 , London / New York
A Convivium with Herbert L. Kessler. Sharing Objects, Sensory Experiences, and Medieval Art History
On the base of two examples - a late antique gold glass and a late medieval venetian painted glass - this introduction wishes to discuss how art was permitting, in pre modern cultures, to go beyond the senses
“Romanesque” Conques as a Neo-Carolingian Project
Begun in 2021, the first team encounter of the project “Conques in the Global World” generated an innovative reinterpretation of the site. Departing from the nineteenth- and twentieth-century explication of Conques as the ideal image of the Romanesque Middle Ages, the site is here envisaged as a space of memorialization of the past for the present. This memorialization, we argue, began in fact at the church’s conception, with the founders’ decisi…
Spaces for Miracles. Constructing Sacred Space through the Body, from Conques to the Mediterranean, and Beyond
Reconstruction of the basilica that preceded the present abbey church at Conques lends itself to exploring the notion of “sacred space”. Like its successor, the original basilica, probably built around 900, was dedicated to St Foy and held her remains. Textual evidence, augmented with (albeit scarce) archeological data, enables a reconstruction of what emerges as an unusual building containing a “physical” sacred space clearly conceived as a plac…
Premodern Popular Culture
Leader article of Pre-Modern “Pop Cultures”? Images and Objects Around the Mediterranean (350-1918 CE). The aim of this monography is to analyze, from the most significant images and objects, to the traditions that have accompanied us to this day
Ten Years of Convivium
How to write about images from the medieval world
This article investigates how one of the most eminent Byzantinists of the twentieth century, André Grabar (1896–1990), constructed his own methodology in a balanced dialogue between texts and images. At the very core of this study is his monograph L’empereur dans l’art byzantin (1936), which can be seen as emblematic of Grabar’s approach. However, this article investigates not only Grabar’s methodology but also his personal cultural background. I…
Alexei Lidov. A Search for Freedom
A Case for Historiography. No “Medieval” Art Without It
This essay concludes the European project Conques in the Global World , devoted to the longue durée of one of medieval Europe’s most emblematic sites. It contends that no study of the Middle Ages, or of any historical period, can be complete without historiography as its foundation. The case of Conques demonstrates that the “medieval” is not a stable historical entity but a construct continually reshaped by the intellectual, political, and ideolo…
Le mythe de l’« icône »
Le terme « icône », couramment utilisé aujourd’hui pour désigner une image sacrée, en particulier dans le contexte de l’art dit « byzantin », dissimule une construction historiographique récente, bien éloignée de ses significations et usages médiévaux. Cet essai retrace l’histoire de cette construction sémantique, depuis la redécouverte des peintures sur bois dans la Russie impériale du xixe siècle jusqu’à leur réinterprétation par les avant-gard…
Nature, Culture, and War in the Writings of Step’annos Orbelian
This article reflects on how the transformation of natural sites into cultural spaces was perceived in medieval Armenia, as analysed in The History of the State of Sisakan, written by the bishop and historian Stepanos Orbelian (c. 1250–1304). Orbelian's text opens with the familiar theme of a natural environment being transformed from a desert into a paradise, and describes how monastic colonisation turned a wild landscape into a prosperous cultu…
Sacralizing the Environment
Before the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, "eco-anxiety" had surged to the forefront of public, political, and academic consciousness. 1 The "Fridays for Future" movement, propelled by Greta Thunberg, transformed ecological urgency into a generational rallying cry and intensified debates on the Anthropocene. 2This momentum resonated across academia, where ecocritical scholarship flourished, 3 and into policy, driving ambitious initiati…
Art (11 works) · History (7 works) · Byzantine Studies and History (6 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Archaeology (4 works) · Historical and Religious Studies of Rome (4 works) · Humanities (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Political science (4 works)