MEGHV

INVITATION
BEAT WYSS ELADSA
LECTURE OF BEAT WYSS


Az Etvs Lornd Tudomnyegyetem Mvszettrtneti
Intzete tisztelettel meghvja nt

a Flep Lajos teremben (1088 Budapest, Mzeum krt. 6
8, Fplet, I. em., 112.)

2014. jnius 18-n, szerdn 16 rakor

Prof. Beat Wyss
(Staatliche Hochschule fr Gestaltung, Karlsruhe)

angol nyelv eladsra, melynek cme:

The Chimaera of cultural identity





Etvs Lornd University, Budapest Institute of Art
History cordially invites you to the public lecture of

Prof. Beat Wyss
(Staatliche Hochschule fr Gestaltung, Karlsruhe)

The Chimaera of cultural identity


4 pm on Wednesday, 18 June 2014


Etvs Lornd University Flep Lajos Lecture Hall
(1088 Budapest, Mzeum krt. 68, Main building,
First floor, #112)



Az elads absztraktja: Abstract:




Recently, la Lupa Capitolina has been redated as a medieval artifact. The original Etruscan bronze attended as both, a
palladium and a looted artwork, the stations of the Roman Empire in decay. By the pillage of Byzantium the Venetian
crusaders coined the statue to coppers. Nevertheless, the legend of the Lupa survives any historical fact.

As a cultural signifier, the figure of the lactating Roman She Wolf is in use since 2 millennia; by every translation, the
previous meaning has been closed. Our comprehension of la Lupa is not older than in late ottocento when the founding
myth of Rome became politically instrumentalized by Italy as a nation state. Mussolinis bronze copy donations testified a
Latin Pact among Italy with France, Hungary, Portugal, Romania, Spain and the Vatican. As the example of Timisoara makes
evident, the She Wolfe icon, submitted in 1926, wasnt unanimously welcome in the multiethnic Banat society.

The symbolic downgrade of the famous bronze gives way to a reflexion about the agency of historiography in the
fabrication of cultural identity. Every generation has the pictures it deserves.


Beat Wyss