The medieval revival and historical topographic representations in The Byzantine monuments of Serbia

Abstract

The work of Felix Kanitz titled Serbiens byzantinische Monumente. Gezeichnet und beschrieben von F. Kanitz [The Byzantine Monuments of Serbia. Drawn and Described by F. Kanitz] published in German and Serbian in 1862 has never been subjected to more detailed analysis from the perspective of art history. The need for the contextualization of illustrated books and their relation to the European culture of historicism, to nature and landscape, as well as their relationship with various artistic phenomena of the mid-nineteenth century, demands the placement of Kanitz’s book into the wider cultural framework of the epoch. [Project of the Serbian Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development, Grant no. 177001: Predstave identiteta u verbalno-vizuelnoj kulturi novog doba]

Keywords

• felix kanitz
• medieval revival
• the culture of historicism
• serbiens byzantinische monumente/the byzantine monuments of serbia
• illustrated books
• heritage