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Institute of Art History at the Freie Universität Berlin
DFG Emmy Noether Junior Research Group
Kosmos/Ornatus.
Ornament in Persia and France c. 1400 in Comparison
The Emmy Noether Junior Research Group has the goal of comparing the possible functions of ornament in one Islamic and one Christian culture, specifically Persia and France. The hypothesis follows that a simple concept of decoration is inadequate in both contexts; rather, ornament can be considered against the background of the Greek concept of “kosmos” as a representation of order. As such, it can function in monotheistic contexts as a mode of signifying a divine ordering authority, without depicting this authority.
A comparison of two lines of reception of this concept in the two largest monotheistic religions allows for determining the similarities and religion- and culture-specific differences in the function of ornament as a form of cognition of the world and of God.
The Junior Research Group is associated with the Collaborative Research Center Aesthetic Experience and the Dissolution of Artistic Limits, Freie Universität Berlin and the NCCR Iconic Criticism - The Power and Meaning of images, University of Basel.
