Milena Ulcar
University of Belgrade, Art History, Department Member
- Cultural History, Art history and critical theory, Relics and Relic Veneration, Antropology of Images, Word and Image Studies, Venice and the Veneto, and 42 moreCult of Saints, Iconology, Ceremony, Ritual and Performance, Relics (Religion), Catholic Church History, Cultural Intermediaries In The Early Modern Mediterranean, Venetian art and architectural history, Dalmatian history, Venezia E Terraferma Veneta (XV-XVIII), Magic Amulets Christian Magic, Apotropaic Objects, Aesthetics, Iconography, Simulacra, Mimesis, Art History, Philosophy of Art, Cultural Criticism, Methexis, German romanticism and idealism, Portraiture and the Problematic of Representation, Theory of Sublime, Art and Nature, Philosopical and Cultural Conceptions of Ageing, Venetian possessions in the Eastern Mediterranean, Early Modern Italy, Early Modern Body, Cultural geography of forms, memories and identities, Saints' Cults, Early Modern Sermons, Material culture of religion, Venetian Stato da mar, Early Modern Material Culture, Early Modern Catholic Studies, Early modern venice, History of Medicine in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, Bodies and Culture, History of Medicine and the Body, "New" senses in art: touch, smell, taste, History of the Senses, 16th century Venice, and Animismedit
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The aim of this paper is to examine the exchange of practices that developed when treating the bodies of ordinary laymen and those of saints. Body parts that had been obtained in unorthodox ways were used in private households in a manner... more
The aim of this paper is to examine the exchange of practices that developed when treating the bodies of ordinary laymen and those of saints. Body parts that had been obtained in unorthodox ways were used in private households in a manner strongly resembling the official methods of relic veneration. Conversely, the church authorities carried out repairs to damaged reliquaries by adopting an approach that mirrored the ways in which common people were healed in their homes (the application of holy images, use of votive gifts, etc.).
Research Interests: Religion, Visual Studies, Art History, Early Modern History, Anthropology of the Body, and 15 moreCult of Saints, Early Modern Europe, Venetian art and architectural history, Venetian History, Body Image, Domestic Space, History of Medicine and the Body, Religions, History of the Body, Relics and Relic Veneration, Mediaeval Cult of Relics and Saints, Saints Cults, Relics and Reliquaries, Body Part Reliquaries, and Bocche di Cattaro
This paper suggests complexity of the perception of the body in Post-Tridentine Catholic sphere through the comparative study of reliquaries from St. Tryphon's cathedral in Kotor. The focus will be placed on the examples created... more
This paper suggests complexity of the perception of the body in Post-Tridentine Catholic sphere through the comparative study of reliquaries from St. Tryphon's cathedral in Kotor. The focus will be placed on the examples created between fifteenth and seventeenth century. The change that occurred in the particular elements of the silver body-part reliquaries suggests that the image of the sacred body acquire a different appearance. Purified of precious stones, decorative ribbons, and knigthly armors, it began to resemble, to a much greater degree, the body of the observer. This new visibility may rather seductively suggest liberation or at least a different kind of intimacy between Heaven and Earth. On the other hand, it was the years after the Reformation that were labeled as an age of articulation and regulation of this relationship.
Research Interests: Art, Early Modern History, History of the Senses, Cult of Saints, Early Modern Body, and 15 moreBody Image, Early Modern Italy, Naturalism, Baroque art and architecture, Italian Baroque art, Early Modern Art and Visual Culture, Relics and Relic Veneration, Religious Naturalism, Mediaeval Cult of Relics and Saints, Early modern venice, Caroline Walker Bynum, Saints Cults, Cult of Relics, Early Modern Cult of Relics and Saints, and Cultural History of the Body
The aim of this paper is to examine the exchange of practices that developed when treating the bodies of ordinary laymen and those of saints. Body parts that had been obtained in unorthodox ways were used in private households in a manner... more
The aim of this paper is to examine the exchange of practices that developed when treating the bodies of ordinary laymen and those of saints. Body parts that had been obtained in unorthodox ways were used in private households in a manner strongly resembling the official methods of relic veneration. Conversely, the church authorities carried out repairs to damaged reliquaries by adopting an approach that mirrored the ways in which common people were healed in their homes (the application of holy images, use of votive gifts, etc.).
Research Interests: Religion, Visual Studies, Art History, Early Modern History, Anthropology of the Body, and 15 moreCult of Saints, Saints' Cults, Early Modern Europe, Venetian art and architectural history, Venetian History, Body Image, Domestic Space, History of Medicine and the Body, Medieval Art, Pilgrimage, Reliquaries, History of the Body, Relics and Relic Veneration, Mediaeval Cult of Relics and Saints, Relics and Reliquaries, Body Part Reliquaries, and Bocche di Cattaro
During the 17 th and 18 th centuries in the Bay of Kotor a vast number of artefacts was altered in order to correspond more conveniently to the orthodox norms of the post-Tridentine Catholic church. In this paper, we want to suggest the... more
During the 17 th and 18 th centuries in the Bay of Kotor a vast number of artefacts was altered in order to correspond more conveniently to the orthodox norms of the post-Tridentine Catholic church. In this paper, we want to suggest the subtlety of this transformation by using the examples of various 'additions' to the most precious holy objects. During these two centuries , the two most important icons and reliquaries in the Bay were altered by using silver covers, iron grids or silver plates as instruments of their representation. These adjustments can rather eloquently suggest the problematic nature of labeling each of these practices as either iconoclastic or iconophilic in nature. It is more fruitful, instead, to examine whether this blockage of the believers' gaze could act as a trigger for a kind of perception that exceeds only repressive impulses imposed by institutional authorities. Regulation of images and discipline of believers' bodies, hence, could be used as heuristic tools, open to the analysis that implies a different vocabulary used for communication between subject and object in the post-Reformation era.
Research Interests: Religion, Iconography, Art History, Material Culture Studies, History of the Senses, and 13 moreIconoclasm, Tridentine Catholicism, Saints' Cults, Venetian History, Baroque art and architecture, Iconoclastic Controversy and Iconophilia, History of Medicine and the Body, Venetian possessions in the Eastern Mediterranean, Social Control, Icons, History of the Body, Relics and Relic Veneration, and The Virgin Mary Iconography
Research Interests: Early Modern History, History of Religion, Material Culture Studies, Balkan Studies, History of the Senses, and 15 morePerformativity, Cult of Saints, Saints' Cults, Early Modern Europe, Early Modern Body, Venetian History, Relics (Religion), Anthropology of the Senses, Baroque art and architecture, Venetian possessions in the Eastern Mediterranean, History of the Body, Relics and Relic Veneration, Mediaeval Cult of Relics and Saints, Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque goldsmith's, and Relics and Reliquaries
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This paper suggests complexity of the perception of the body in Post-Tridentine Catholic sphere through the comparative study of reliquaries from St. Tryphon’s cathedral in Kotor. The focus will be placed on the examples created between... more
This paper suggests complexity of the perception of the body in Post-Tridentine Catholic sphere through the comparative study of reliquaries from St. Tryphon’s cathedral in Kotor. The focus will be placed on the examples created between fifteenth and seventeenth century. The change that occurred in the particular elements of the silver body-part reliquaries suggests that the image of the sacred body acquired a different appearance. Purified of precious stones, decorative ribbons, and knightly armors, it began to resemble, to a much greater degree, the body of the observer. This new visibility may rather seductively suggest liberation or at least a different kind of intimacy between Heaven and Earth. On the other hand, it was the years after the Reformation that were labeled as an age of articulation and regulation of this relationship.
Research Interests: Early Modern History, History of the Senses, Cult of Saints, Saints' Cults, Early Modern Body, and 19 moreVenetian art and architectural history, Venetian History, Body Image, Early Modern Italy, Naturalism, Relics (Religion), Baroque art and architecture, Italian Baroque art, Venetian possessions in the Eastern Mediterranean, Early Modern Art and Visual Culture, Venetian Stato da mar, Relics and Relic Veneration, Religious Naturalism, Mediaeval Cult of Relics and Saints, Early modern venice, Caroline Walker Bynum, Cult of Relics, Early Modern Cult of Relics and Saints, and Cultural History of the Body
Research Interests: Eighteenth Century History, Cult of Saints, Early Modern Europe, Early Modern Body, Venetian art and architectural history, and 9 moreEarly Modern Italy, Venetian possessions in the Eastern Mediterranean, Relics, Venetian Stato da mar, Relics and Relic Veneration, Arma Christi, Silversmithing/histoy of art, Reliquary-crosses, and Cult of Relics
Research Interests: Ritual, Performativity, Cult of Saints, Saints' Cults, Early Modern Europe, and 18 moreEarly Modern Body, Venetian art and architectural history, Venetian History, Body Image, Church History, Early Modern Italy, Relics (Religion), Body in Performance, Baroque art and architecture, Venetian possessions in the Eastern Mediterranean, Ritual and Religion, Silver, Venice and the Veneto, Early Modern Art and Visual Culture, Relics and Relic Veneration, Reliques, Relics and Reliquaries, and Boka Kotorska
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Research Interests: Material Culture Studies, Saints' Cults, Early Modern Body, Venetian art and architectural history, The Sacred Body, and 9 moreRelics (Religion), Materiality of Art, Early Modern Sermons, Venetian possessions in the Eastern Mediterranean, Popular religion, Silversmithing, Relics and Relic Veneration, Relics and Reliquaries, and Boka Kotorska
Research Interests: Cult of Saints, Saints' Cults, Early Modern Europe, Early Modern Body, Venetian art and architectural history, and 12 moreVenetian History, Relics (Religion), Baroque art and architecture, Venetian possessions in the Eastern Mediterranean, Venice and the Veneto, Venetian Stato da mar, Relics and Relic Veneration, Mediaeval Cult of Relics and Saints, Relics and Reliquaries, Cult of Relics, Body Part Reliquaries, and Boka Kotorska
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Research Interests: Semiotics, Psychoanalysis, German Studies, Aesthetics, Art History, and 17 moreRomanticism, Nineteenth Century Studies, German Romanticism, Irony (German Studies), Comics, Graphic Novels, 19th-century German philosophy, Art and Nature, Caspar David Friedrich, German romanticism and idealism, German literature of the Goethezeit, Imitation and Expressivity, Sequential Narratives, The Hero Figure, Portraiture and the Problematic of Representation, Theory of Sublime, and Philosopical and Cultural Conceptions of Ageing
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Друга годишња конференција Центра за визуелну културу Балкана и Друштва историчара уметности и визуелне културе новог века, децембар 2018.
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Research Interests: History, Cultural History, Cultural Studies, Hebrew Literature, Visual Studies, and 32 moreArt History, Jewish Studies, Architecture, Medieval History, Early Modern History, Literature, Visual Culture, Balkan Studies, History and Memory, Modern Art, Jewish History, Literary Theory, Serbian history, Memory Studies, Cultural Memory, History of Belgrade, Collective Memory, Public Memory, Ladino Language, Medieval Hebrew Literature, Sephardic Studies, Museology, Sephardic Literature, New Museology, Memories, Memories and Experiences of War, Judeo-Spanish (Ladino) language, modern Hebrew literature, The politics of memory and the memories of politics, Ladino (Judeo-Spanish) Language and Literature, Sephardic Jews, and Sephardic Literature and Culture
ABSTRACT: The aim of this paper is to present two icons of the Virgin from the Bay of Kotor: their iconography, style, but above all the legends about them, the miracles they performed and, in particular, the ways in which these wonders... more
ABSTRACT: The aim of this paper is to present two icons of the Virgin from the Bay of Kotor: their iconography, style, but above all the legends about them, the miracles they performed and, in particular, the ways in which these wonders were used in the process of constituting the legitimacy of the communes and the region. At the root of the myth of Our Lady of the Reef was the political aspiration of the citizens of Perast to consolidate their domination over the broader territory. The similar aspiration had the citizens of Prčanj. But, while the creation of the cult of Our Lady of the Reef was officially based and rested on the heroic and masculine principle, the establishment of the cult of Our Lady of Prčanj went the opposite direction: from the private and women’s domain. Therefore, the creation of the Virgin cults in early modern Bay performed a variety of cultural roles. The two icons followed meticulously designed Post-Tridentine model of linking sacral and political power and both served as mirrors of social hierarchy. However, the dynamic nature of their cultural impact, which involved more than subtle differences in ways in which the two Virgins were produced and consumed, resulted in justification of local cults. Similarities and variations which followed their fashioning should be perceived as two sides of the same coin, complementary and interdependent, rather than mutually exclusive phenomena.