A Saint on the Move. Modeling and Representing the Ephemeral and Uncertainties in the History of the Procession of the Holy Relics of St. Servatius

Description

The distinction between tangible and intangible cultural heritage is
problematic for the modeling of interactions between material and immaterial
expressions of the arts. This hinders capturing changes in artworks in their
cultural contexts necessary to understand their social functions and symbolic
meanings. To solve this problem a model of historical frames is created that
allows analysing spatial-temporal interactions between tangible and
intangible cultural heritage. As most of such interactions are less defined in
time and move in space, particular attention is paid to the modeling of
ephemeral events. The model is designed using five types of such
interactions in a case study of the late 12th century reliquary shrine of St
Servatius in Maastricht (Netherlands) and festivities around it. The fuzziness
of ephemeral events in tangible and intangible cultural heritage made us
realize that the next step would to be to model uncertainty. Particular
attention is paid to the contextualization of a 3D scholarly edition of the
restoration of the reliquary shrine of St Servatius between 1958 and 1962. It
explains the impact of the restoration on religious popular function of the
shrine and its iconographical program.

Period	29 Jun 2025
Event title	Empty Boxes? Modeling the Lost and Ephemeral in Premodern Sacred Places
Event type	Conference
Location	Rome, ItalyShow on map
Degree of Recognition	International