ARCHITRAVE - Art and Architecture in German Travel Accounts to Paris and Versailles in the Baroque Era

该项目旨在仔细研究1685年至1723年期间的六份德国旅行记录的内容，这是迄今为止唯一已知的巴洛克时期对法国艺术和建筑做出深刻而理性的判断和意见的记录。这些手稿和印刷文件从德国公共收藏部分未出版，从来没有被调查作为一个整体。该项目将使他们在一个丰富的评论和舒适的（重新）搜索数字门户网站，旨在文本和图像资源的多层次链接。德法研究小组的目标是双重的：将法国专家对路易十四统治下的巴黎和凡尔赛宫的了解与他们的德国同事对选定来源的了解相结合，并展示基于计算机的文本处理能力，为学术界和非学术界公众提供创新和可靠的质疑和探索方法。该项目的核心目标是促进更好地理解巴洛克时期对外来文化的欣赏模式。即使是出于好奇的仰慕，德国旅行者在启蒙运动的高峰期之前就对法国艺术和文化表现出了批判性的距离。与法国文化的接触在多大程度上促进了这种独立判断能力的发展，稳定了德国内部的理解机制，这一点尚未得到充分的研究。在这里首次比较的这些文献中，普遍存在的怀疑态度似乎为世纪之交新美学范式的发展提供了肥沃的土壤：1700年左右，对个人成就和创造性天才的欣赏占了上风。我们必须研究德国旅法者在这一颠覆和解放过程中所起的作用。此外，就其文学品质和语言特点而言，这些文本似乎属于一个过渡时期。即使在世纪后期，传统的描述模式仍然盛行，旨在对所看到的艺术作品进行客观和完整的描述，人们已经观察到旅行者越来越有能力关注他们个人兴趣的单一方面，并表达他们的情感。 旅行记录是珍贵的事实来源。它们将有助于了解许多建筑物的外观及其随时间变化或破坏的内部装饰，以及它们的当代用途和功能。在科学调查的同时，将通过开放获取制作一个丰富的和可交互搜索的六个来源的双语数字版。研究门户网站还将在凡尔赛宫网站上为广大公众提供一个网络空间。

The project aims at scrutinizing the content of six substantial German travel accounts dating from 1685 to 1723, the only hitherto known from the baroque era in which profound and reasoned judgements and opinions on French art and architecture have been rendered. These manuscripts and printed documents from German public collections are partly unpublished and have never been investigated as a whole. The project will make them available in a richly commented and comfortably (re-)searchable digital portal, aiming at a multi-layered linkage of textual and iconographical ressources. The ambitions of the German-French research group are twofold: To merge the knowledge of French specialists on Paris and Versailles under Louis XIV with the acquaintance of their German colleagues with the chosen sources, and to demonstrate the capacities of a computer-based treatment of the texts to generate, for an academic as well as a non-academic public, innovative and reliable ways of questioning and exploring them. The core objective of the project is to contribute to a better understanding of the modes of appreciation of an alien culture in the baroque era. Even if drawn by an inquisitive admiration, German travellers have shown long before the height of the Enlightenment a critical distance towards French art and culture. It has not yet been investigated enough to what extent the contact with French culture contributed to the development of such a faculty of independent judgement, stabilizing inner German schemes of apprehension. The sceptical attitude commonly discernible in these documents compared here for the first time seems to have been a fertile soil for the development of a new aesthetic paradigm at the turn of the century: Around 1700, an appreciation of individual achievements and creative genius prevailed. The part German travellers to France played in this subversive and emancipatory process will have to be investigated.Also in regard to their literary qualities and linguistic specificities, the texts seem to belong to a transitory period. Even if in the late 17th century the traditional descriptive mode still prevailed, aiming at an allegedly objective and integral account of the art works seen, one already observes a growing ability of the travellers to focus on single aspects following their individual interests, and to express their emotions. The travel accounts constitute precious factual sources. They will help to understand the appearance of numerous buildings and their interior decorations modified or destroyed by time, as well as their contemporary uses and functions. In conjunction with the scientific investigation, an enriched and interactively searchable bilingual digital edition of the six sources will be produced via open access. The research portal will be accompanied by a web space for the wider public on the website of the Palace of Versailles.