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Oleg Voskoboynikov, Tre sguardi sull’arte medievale: a proposito dell'immagine in saggi di Olivier Boulnois, Jean Wirth e Jérôme Baschet
Three gazes on medieval art: on the image in essays by Olivier Boulnois, Jean Wirth and Jérôme Baschet
This review is dedicated to three books on medieval art, published in France in the beginning of 2008. They were written not by pure "art historians", but by a philosopher, Olivier Boulnois, a medievalist-anthopologist from the school of Le Goff, Jean Wirth, and an art historian formed at the Ecole des Chartes, Jérôme Baschet. These books are syntheses, different in style and subject matter, but all symptomatic of today's situation in interdisciplinary studies on medieval world of images, all interesting for scholars of Middle Ages. We are not dealing with a "history" in chronological sense of the word, not with a sequence of facts on the argument. Each book represents a methodological endeavour, fortunately based on description and analysis of empirical monuments, texts and doctrines, but always aiming a reflection on our profession, and always with that patent pathos of renewal, so characteristic of french human sciences of last decades. The author tries to give a critical vision of the books, discovers their methodological advantages and disadvantages.
Key words: Olivier Boulnois, Jean Wirth, Jérôme Baschet, medieval Art, image.
Oleg Voskoboynikov, PhD, is now associate professor at the social history department of the Higher School of Economics, Moscow. He studied medieval history at the Medieval history departement of Moscow State Lomonossov University until his graduation in 2002. He was also student of Jean-Claude Schmitt at EHESS Paris from 1999 to 2006, when he graduated on the subject “Arts, savoirs et visions de la nature à la cour de Frédéric II”. Member of the Officina di studi medievali since 2005. He’s now working on the critical edition of “Liber particularis” by Michael Scot, and prepairs the publication of his thesis in the series of the Officina di studi medievali.