Insculpta imago. The seal as paradigm of a medieval and early modern concept of the image

该项目关注的是一个迄今为止在很大程度上没有引起学术关注的图像概念，尽管它牢牢地扎根于从古代到近代早期的不同类型的文本中：insculpta imago。作为三维浮雕图像的雕刻意象，以印章作为视觉媒介为例进行了研究，这只是最近才成为艺术史研究的焦点。印章作为两者，即作为印章矩阵的深度雕刻图像，分别作为印章印记的凸起，浮雕状意象，出现在近代早期关于艺术理论的著作中，在神学，哲学，文学和历史著作中，以及在文本中，直到现在大多被艺术历史学家忽视，如罗马法和教会法，法律的评论，公证文件或早期的签名术。该项目旨在建立一个示范性文本语料库，分析分配给雕塑形象的质量和能力，突出中心美学类别，如美，物质性，真实性，感官和格式。第二步，对这些文字的分析结果被引用到宝石和印章上，这些宝石和印章在文本中被提及、描述和解释，并保存在档案馆和博物馆中。该项目旨在展示印章在中世纪和早期现代论述中的典范作用，即作为三维图像的雕刻家形象及其与其他塑料媒介的复杂关系。

The project focuses on an image concept that hitherto largely escaped scholarly attention, although it is firmly anchored in different genres of texts from the Antiquity up to early modern times: the insculpta imago. The insculpta imago as three dimensional, relief-carved image is examined with the example of the seal as a visual medium, that only recently became a focus of art historical research. The seal as both, i.e. as in depth carved image of the seal matrix respectively as raised, relief-like imago of the seal impression, appears in writings of the early modern times on art theory, in theological, philosophical, literary and historical writings, as well as in texts, mostly ignored until now by art historians, like Roman and canon Law, legal commentaries, notarial documents or the very early works on sigillography. The project aims at a Corpus of exemplary texts, with an analysis of the qualities and competences assigned to the sculptural image, highlighting central aesthetic categories like beauty, materiality, authenticity, senses and format. In a second step the results of the analysis of these writings are referred back to gems and seals, which are mentioned, described and interpreted in the texts and conserved in archives and museums. The project wants to evince the paradigmatic role of the seal in medieval and early modern discourses on the insculpta imago as three dimensional image and its complex relationship to other plastic media.