진학프로석·박사 채용 접수 플랫폼

How would you dress a saint in art? Working within a historically unparalleled amalgam of an interconnected world and regional religious- and legal reforms, Netherlandish artists active at the dawn of the ʻfirst globalisationʼ were among the first to create consummate solutions to this question. Re-conceptualizing hermeneutical geographies they ordered anew the ever-expanding ʻworld of thingsʼ into their religious scenes. The recently funded project "Dressing the Saints: Gendering and Othering in Netherlandish Art at the Dawn of a Globalized World" (DRESS) provides a novel research agenda for art history and material culture studies, working from the hypothesis that before the conception of non-European lands as an ʻagreeable exotic worldʼ, all textiles enrobing bodies of the heavenly hosts harboured dynamic and flexible ontologies.

Applying a multidisciplinary approach that cross-fertilizes art history, Kleiderkunde (visual anthropology), archival studies, careful interpretation of data from recent advances in art technology and re-created historical artistic practices on art works, DRESS breaks new methodological ground by (1) highlighting the agency of the artist, as painter, sculptor and poet; and by (2) probing the interpretive potential from the unheeded descriptions of costumes worn by the saintsʼ ʻavatarsʼ in religious plays. The project is divided in three inter-connected work packages: "Beyond Allure: Dressing the Saints in Netherlandish Altarpieces, 1480-1530" (WP1), "Dressing the Other: The Black Magus in Netherlandish Art, 1480-1530" (WP2), "The Material Magdalene in the Early Modern Parish" (WP3), and a coda, "ʼAll that Arachneʼs Art Produces Fullyʼ: Netherlandish Poet-Painters on Textile Metaphors" (WP4).

For more information and how to apply: https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/284618/postdoctoral-position-associated-with-the-project-dressing-the-saints