The project implemented by the team of young researchers (Petra Trnková, Martin Krummholz, Tereza Cermanová, Kateřina Doležalová, Markéta Berdychová, Petr Šámal, Jan Ivanega) examines several aspects of the theme of the Buquoy residences: 1. The development and functional transformation of the family’s network of residences in different generations. 2. Changes in localities, buildings, and interiors. 3. A reconstruction of the artistic and social context of building and landscape activities and their documentation. 4. The Buquoys as amateur and professional artists. 5. The nobility as patrons and collectors of art. 6. Cooperation between the aristocracy and photographers: the status and role of photography in the cultural interests of the 19th-century aristocracy. 7. Technology and the restoration of paper and photographs.
- Issues relating to the depiction of aristocratic residences, their interiors and surroundings; their function and transformation; taking into account the role of the media used for depiction and changes in the media and in technology (watercolour, gouache, photography, etc.).
- The status and role of photography in the cultural interests of the 19th-century aristocracy and its role in constructing a social image of the nobility.
- Cooperation between the aristocracy and photographers; the nobility as commissioners and collectors of photographs.
- The nobility as patrons and collectors of art.
- The question of technology and the restoration of paper and photographs.
contact person: Petra Trnková, trnkova.at.udu.cas.cz