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Of Angels, Puppets and Syphilis. Archiater goes to Augsburg
Augsburg, 22.11.2024 Amidst sunshine and snowfall, the Archiater team went on an excursion to Augsburg to trace the history of former hospitals. The first stop was the Heilig-Geist-Kapelle (Holy Spirit Chapel) near the Rotes Tor (Red Gate) . Construction of the chapel began at the end of the 14th century and it was expanded…
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Augsburg
The Visual Culture of Early Modern Hospitals in Munich Miriam Siebert is researching hospitals in Augsburg in Early Modern Times. The city held a special position as an imperial city that was home to both Lutheranism and Catholicism. You can look at the Kilianplan and all its hospitals in detail here. Miriam Siebert chose a geographic approach…
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WikiProject Spital
The WikiProject Spital was initiated by ERC ARCHIATER on Wikidata. In the process of mapping, Maximilian Kristen made a first inventory of the data on hospitals already fed into Wikidata. Firstly, the item of interest – hospital (Q180370) – was identified and categorized in four types: hospital, poorhouse, almshouse, and Heilig-Geist-Spital. As a visualization, queries were…
ARCHIATER is a five-year Advanced Grant Project (2024-2029) funded by the European Research Council and bases at the LMU, Munich. The Archiater team studies the significance and role of art and architecture in hospitals prior to 1750. The project will examine hospital visual cultures, the agencies involved, and the imaginations at play in European cities by analysing the spaces, forms, themes, and designs, and reconstruct the transitions and changing values associated with hospital materiality.