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  • The Benin Bronzes: Provenance, Aesthetics, and the Fragility of Historical Certainty

    The Benin Bronzes: Provenance, Aesthetics, and ...

    Wolfgang Jaenicke

    The Benin Bronzes have become a focal point in contemporary provenance research, illustrating how interpretive frameworks, value judgments, and moral assumptions have shifted in the handling of African art. Earlier,...

    The Benin Bronzes: Provenance, Aesthetics, and ...

    Wolfgang Jaenicke

    The Benin Bronzes have become a focal point in contemporary provenance research, illustrating how interpretive frameworks, value judgments, and moral assumptions have shifted in the handling of African art. Earlier,...

  • A film about the Benin Initiative Switzerland - Provenance research: A caricature from the “Simplicissimus"?

    A film about the Benin Initiative Switzerland -...

    Wolfgang Jaenicke

    In the film Museum Rietberg | On the Trail – The Benin Initiative Switzerland, a striking problem becomes apparent: the provided transcript does not match the spoken text in several...

    A film about the Benin Initiative Switzerland -...

    Wolfgang Jaenicke

    In the film Museum Rietberg | On the Trail – The Benin Initiative Switzerland, a striking problem becomes apparent: the provided transcript does not match the spoken text in several...

  • Provenance Research in the Mode of Digital Benin

    Provenance Research in the Mode of Digital Benin

    Wolfgang Jaenicke

    The self-conception of provenance research as practised by Digital Benin is shaped by a deliberately circumscribed institutional framework. The project focuses almost exclusively on objects held in public museum collections, while private...

    Provenance Research in the Mode of Digital Benin

    Wolfgang Jaenicke

    The self-conception of provenance research as practised by Digital Benin is shaped by a deliberately circumscribed institutional framework. The project focuses almost exclusively on objects held in public museum collections, while private...

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