Architecture Books

Book SynopsisThis collection includes essays on the visual experience and material culture at medieval pilgrimage shrines of northern Europe and the British Isles, particularly the art and architecture created to intensify spiritual experience for visitors. These studies focus on regional pilgrimage centers which flourished from the 12th-16th centuries, addressing various aspects of visual imagery and architectural space which inspired devotees to value cults of enshrined saints and to venerate them in memory from afar. Subjects include pilgrim dress, jeweled and painted reliquaries, labyrinths, elaborate processions, printed texts of the saint's life, shrines, sculpture and other architectural decoration, and pilgrim souvenirs. Profusely illustrated with 350 photographs, this work will interest scholars and students of art history, history, religious studies, and popular culture. Contributors include: Ilana Abend-David, Virginia Blanton, Sarah Blick, Katja Boertjes, James Bugslag, Lisa Victoria Ciresi, Daniel K. Connolly, M. Cecilia Gaposchkin, Laura D. Gelfand, Anja Grebe, Anne F. Harris, Kelly M. Holbert, Vida J. Hull, Jos Koldeweij, Marike de Kroon, Claire Labrecque, Stephen Lamia, Nora Laos, Jennifer M. Lee, Albert Lemeunier, Mitchell B. Merback, Scott B. Montgomery, Jeanne Nuechterlein, Rita Tekippe, William J. Travis, Kristen Van Ausdall, Benoît Van den Bossche. All volumes of the print edition will become available in individual e-books: 9789047430070 (volume 1) - 9789047430087 (volume 2).Trade Review'The 27 essays in this immense two-volume, 1000-page tome each present a case study of the interaction between the visual arts and the phenomenally widespread and tenacious practice of religious pilgrimage in the late Middle Ages. These ambitious volumes point to the great deal of interest in the field of "pilgrimage arts."...the contributors deserve sincere congratulations for assembling the most extensive and useful group of studies about the intersection of image and pilgrimage in Northern Europe ever published.' Kathryn M. Rudy, Renaissance Quarterly, 2005. 'Each essay is meticulously researched and amply documented, and the volume includes an extensive international bibliography. It is also accompanied by a volume of plates to illustrate each essay. The collection is recommended for college libraries and will be of interest to historians of religion, spirituality, art and architecture, and the physical cultures of the high Middle Ages.' Wanda Zemler-Cizewski, Theological Studies, 2006. Cumulatively these essays make an impressive and reasonably coherent whole, although they cannot, of course, furnish a complete survey of northern European pilgrimage. One’s attention is persistently drawn to the riches of the sources; it is hard to imagine a reader, however well-informed, who will not discover the unfamiliar and intriguing in text or footnotes. The editors have performed a big job pretty well (…) Diana Webb, Speculum ‘This monumental volume of essays is a wonderful, albeit expensive addition to the literature on pilgrimage. The collection contains twenty-seven essays, and in the second volume are 348 black-and-white images that illustrate the articles. As the title indicates, the collection focuses on northern Europe and the British Isles (…). Despite its size, this volume is nicely coherent and of uniformly high quality.’ Katherine L. French, State University of New York at New Paltz, Sixteenth Century JournalTable of ContentsVOLUME I (Texts) Acknowledgements Introduction PART I. THE PILGRIM’S JOURNEY: VISION AND REALITY 1. Pilgrims and Fashion: The Functions of Pilgrims’ Garments, Anja Grebe 2. Spiritual Pilgrimage in the Paintings of Hans Memling, Vida J. Hull 3. Hans Memling’s St. Ursula Shrine: The Subject as Object of Pilgrimage, Jeanne Nuechterlein 4. A Case Study of the Relationship between Painting and Flamboyant Architecture: The St.-Esprit Chapel at Rue, in Picardy, Claire Labrecque PART II. HOUSING FOR SAINTS: CHURCHES AND SHRINES 5. The Eventful Lives of Two Mosan Châsses, Albert Lemeunier 6. Architectural Representations on the Medallions of the Heribert Shrine, Ilana Abend-David 7. Pilgrimage to Chartres: The Visual Evidence, James Bugslag PART III. EXPERIENCE AND ICONOGRAPHY AT PILGRIMAGE CENTERS: DISCERNING MEANING 8. The Journey to Emmaus Capital at Saint-Lazare of Autun, William J. Travis 9. Portals, Processions, Pilgrimage, and Piety: Saints Firmin and Honoré at Amiens, M. Cecilia Gaposchkin 10. Pilgrimage, Performance, and Stained Glass at Canterbury Cathedral, Anne F. Harris PART IV. CONNECTIONS TO JERUSALEM AND THE HOLY JERUSALEM THROUGH PILGRIMAGE SITES 11. At the Center of the World: The Labyrinth Pavement of Chartres Cathedral, Daniel K. Connolly 12. The Architecture and Iconographical Sources of the Church of Neuvy-Saint-Sépulcre, Nora Laos 13. Relics and Reliquaries of the True Cross, Kelly M. Holbert 14. Erit Sepulcrum Ejus ... Gloriosum: Verisimilitude and the Tomb of Christ in the Art of Twelfth-Century Île-de-France, Stephen Lamia PART V. PILGRIM SOUVENIRS: MEANING AND FUNCTION 15. Medieval Pilgrim Badges and Their Iconographic Aspects, Marike de Kroon 16. Reconstructing the Shrine of St. Thomas Becket, Canterbury Cathedral, Sarah Blick 17. Pilgrim Ampullae from Vendôme: Souvenirs from a Pilgrimage to the Holy Tear of Christ, Katja Boertjes 18. Searching for Signs: Pilgrims’ Identity and Experience Made Visible in the Miracula Sancti Thomae Cantuariensis, Jennifer M. Lee 19. “Shameless and Naked Images”: Obscene Badges as Parodies of Popular Devotion, Jos Koldeweij PART VI. COMMON CAUSE FOR MEDIEVAL CHRISTIANS: POLITICS AND PRACTICALITIES OF CULT DEVELOPMENT 20. Doubt and Authority in the Host-Miracle Shrines of Orvieto and Wilsnack, Kristen Van Ausdall 21. Building a Presbytery for St. Æthelthryth: Bishop Hugh de Northwold and the Politics of Cult Production in Thirteenth-Century England, Virginia Blanton 22. ‘Y Me Tarde’: The Valois, Pilgrimage, and the Chartreuse de Champmol, Laura D. Gelfand 23. Channels of Grace: Pilgrimage Architecture, Eucharistic Imagery, and Visions of Purgatory at the Host-Miracle Churches of Late Medieval Germany, Mitchell B. Merback PART VII. CULTS AND CULT PRACTICES: EVOLUTION AND EXPRESSION 24. The Iconography of the Rheno-Mosan Châsses of the Thirteenth Century, Benoît Van den Bossche 25. Relics and Pilgrimage in the Xylographic Book of St. Servatius of Maastricht, Scott B. Montgomery 26. Pilgrimage and Procession: Correlations of Meaning, Practice, and Effects, Rita Tekippe 27. The Aachen Karlsschrein and Marienschrein, Lisa Victoria Ciresi Bibliography Index VOLUME II (Plates) List of Illustrations Illustrations

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Book SynopsisGandhara, with its wide variety of architectural remains and sculptures, has for many decades perplexed students of South and Central Asia. Kurt Behrendt in this volume for the first time and convincingly offers a description of the development of 2nd century B.C.E. to 8th century C.E. Buddhist sacred centers in ancient Gandhara, today northwest Pakistan. Regional variations in architecture and sculpture in the Peshawar basin, Swat, and Taxila are discussed. At last a chronological framework is given for the architecture and the sculpture of Gandhara, but also light is being shed on how relic structures were utilized through time, as devotional imagery became increasingly significant to Buddhist religious practice. With an important comparative overview of architectural remains, it is indispensable for all those interested in the development of the early Buddhist tradition of south and central Asia and the roots of Buddhism elsewhere in Asia.

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Book SynopsisArt and Architecture in Ladakh shows how the region’s cultural development has been influenced by its location across the great communications routes linking India with Tibet and Central Asia. Edited by Erberto Lo Bue and John Bray, the collection contains 17 research papers by experienced international art historians and architectural conservationists, as well as emerging scholars from Ladakh itself. Their topics range widely over time, from prehistoric rock art to mediaeval Buddhist stupas and wall paintings, as well as early modern castle architecture, the inter-regional trade in silk brocades, and the challenges of 21st century conservation. Taken together, these studies complement each other to provide a detailed view of Ladakh’s varied cultural inheritance in the light of the latest research. Contributors include: Monisha Ahmed, Marjo Alafouzo, André Alexander, Chiara Bellini, Kristin Blancke, John Bray, Laurianne Bruneau, Andreas Catanese, Philip Denwood, Quentin Devers, Phuntsog Dorjay, Hubert Feiglstorfer, John Harrison, Neil and Kath Howard, Gerald Kozicz, Erberto Lo Bue, Filippo Lunardo, Kacho Mumtaz Ali Khan, Heinrich Poell, Tashi Ldawa Thsangspa and Martin Vernier.Trade Review'The book is an ambitious effort that brings together a wide range of conversations about Ladakhi’s heritage of art and architecture. The two editors must be commended for their ability to allow each topic the space it deserves, while still managing to keep the book together as a coherent whole. A key strength of the book is the critical tone and the diversity of sources it taps to develop its arguments.(...) In addition to the past, the book also dwells on current issues, while also keeping an eye on future possibilities and challenges. This is best epitomised by the concluding chapters that discuss the importance of heritage conservation in the present and the future.' Sunetro Ghosal, Ladakh Studies, 33 (September 2015) 'The volume will become an indispensable reference work for all academic libraries focussed on the HImalayas and Tibet as well as on India.' Amy Heller, Arts Asiatiques, 70 (2015).Table of ContentsIntroduction – Erberto Lo Bue and John Bray 1. Ancient Petroglyphs of Ladakh: New Discoveries and Documentation - Tashi Ldawa Thsangspa 2. Embedded in Stone – Early Buddhist Rock Art of Ladakh - Phuntsog Dorjay 3. Historic Ruins in the Gya Valley, Eastern Ladakh, and a Consideration of Their Relationship to the History of Ladakh and Maryul - Neil and Kath Howard. With an Appendix on the War of Tsede (rTse lde) of Guge in 1083 CE by Philip Denwood 4. An Archaeological Account of Ten Ancient Painted Chortens in Ladakh and Zanskar - Quentin Devers, Laurianne Bruneau and Martin Vernier 5. The Chorten (mChod rten) with the Secret Chamber near Nyarma - Gerald Kozicz 6. The Dating of the Sumtsek Temple at Alchi - Philip Denwood 7. The Iconography and the Historical Context of the Drinking Scene in the Dukhang at Alchi, Ladakh - Marjo Alafouzo 8. The Wood Carvings of Lachuse. A Hidden Jewel of Early Mediaeval Ladakhi Art -Heinrich Poell 9. The mGon khang of dPe thub (Spituk): A Rare Example of 15th Century Tibetan Painting from Ladakh - Chiara Bellini 10. Chigtan Castle and Mosque: a Preliminary Historical and Architectural Analysis - Kacho Mumtaz Ali Khan, John Bray, Quentin Devers and Martin Vernier 11. Lamayuru (Ladakh) – Chenrezik Lhakang: The Bar Do Thos Grol Illustrated as a Mural Painting - Kristin Blancke 12. The Lost Paintings of Kesar - John Bray 13. Tshogs zhing: a Wall Painting in the New ’Du khang of Spituk (dPe thub) - Filippo Lunardo 14. From Benaras to Leh - the Trade and Use of Silk-brocade - Monisha Ahmed 15. Conservation of Leh Old Town – Concepts and Challenges - André Alexander with Andreas Catanese 16. Revealing Traditions in Earthen Architecture: Analysis of Earthen Building Material and Traditional Constructions in the Western Himalayas - Hubert Feiglstorfer 17. Conservation of Architectural Heritage in Ladakh -John Harrison Bibliography List of Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisProximity to the monarch was a vital asset in the struggle for power and influence in medieval and early modern courts. The concept of ‘access to the ruler’ has therefore grown into a dominant theme in scholarship on pre-modern dynasties. Still, many questions remain concerning the mechanisms of access and their impact on politics. Bringing together new research on European and Asian cases, the ten chapters in this volume focus on the ways in which ‘access’ was articulated, regulated, negotiated, and performed. By taking into account the full complexity of hierarchies, ceremonial rites, spaces and artefacts that characterized the dynastic court, The Key to Power? forces us to rethink power relations in the late medieval and early modern world. Contributors are: Christina Antenhofer, Ronald G. Asch, Florence Berland, Mark Hengerer, Neil Murphy, Fabian Persson, Jonathan Spangler, Michael Talbot, Steven Thiry, and Audrey Truschke.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Notes on Contributors List of Illustrations & Tables Introduction Dries Raeymaekers and Sebastiaan Derks Repertoires of Access in Princely Courts I. Articulating Access Florence Berland Access to the Prince’s Court in Late Medieval Paris Neil Murphy The Court on the Move: Ceremonial Entries, Gift-Giving and Access to the Monarch in France, c.1440–c.1570 Audrey Truschke Deceptive Familiarity: European Perceptions of Access at the Mughal Court II. Regulating Access Michael Talbot Accessing the Shadow of God: Spatial and Performative Ceremonial at the Ottoman Court Mark Hengerer Access at the Court of the Austrian Habsburg Dynasty (Mid-Sixteenth to Mid-Eighteenth Century): A Highway from Presence to Politics? III. Monopolizing Access Jonathan Spangler Holders of the Keys: The Grand Chamberlain, the Grand Equerry and Monopolies of Access at the Early Modern French Court Ronald G. Asch Patronage, Friendship and the Politics of Access: The Role of the Early Modern Favourite Revisited Fabian Persson The Struggle for Access: Participation and Distance During a Royal Swedish Minority IV. Visualizing Access Christina Antenhofer Meeting the Prince between the City and the Family: The Resignification of Castello San Giorgio in Mantua (Fourteenth – Sixteenth Centuries) Steven Thiry Forging Dynasty: The Politics of Dynastic Affinity in Burgundian-Habsburg Birth and Baptism Ceremonial (1430–1505) Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume investigates how Jesuits reflected visually and verbally on the status and functions of the imago, between the foundation of the order in 1540 and its suppression in 1773, in rhetorical and emblematic treatises, theoretical debates, and embedded in various instances where Jesuit authors and artists implicitely explored the status and functions of images.Table of Contents1 Introduction. The Jesuit Engagement with the Status and Functions of the Visual Image Walter S. Melion Part I. Jesuit Image Theory – Rheorical and Emblematic Treatises, and Theoretical Debates 2 THE EARLY JESUITS AND THE CATHOLIC DEBATE ABOUT SACRED IMAGES Wietse De Boer 3 THE JESUIT ARS AND SCIENTIA SYMBOLICA. FROM RICHEOME AND SANDAEUS TO MASEN AND MÉNESTRIER Ralph Dekoninck 4 THE THEORY OF FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE. IN MAXIMILIAN VAN DER SANDT’S WRITINGS Agnès Guiderdoni 5 WRITING ON THE BODY AND LOOKING THROUGH ITS WOUNDS: THE MNEMONIC METAPHOR OF THE STIGMATA IN EMANUELE TESAURO’S RHETORIC Andrea Torre 6 CLAUDE-FRANÇOIS MÉNESTRIER: THE FOUNDER OF “EARLY MODERN GROUNDED THEORY” David Graham 7 Enargeia Fireworks: Jesuit Image Theory in Franciscus Neumayr’s Rhetorical Manual (Idea Rhetoricae, 1748) and His Tragedies Karl A.E. Enenkel Part II: Embedded Jesuit Image Theory 8 LIBELLUS PIARUM PRECUM (1575): ITERATIONS OF THE FIVE HOLY WOUNDS IN AN EARLY JESUIT PRAYERBOOK Walter S. Melion 9 INTERIOR SIGHT IN PETER CANISIUS’ MEDITATIONS ON ADVENT Hilmar Pabel 10 LE PACTE PRÉCAIRE DE L’IMAGE ET DE L’ECRIT DANS LE LIVRE ILLUSTRE D’EPOQUE MODERNE : LE CAS DE LA PEINTURE SPIRITUELLE (1611) DE LOUIS RICHEOME Pierre Antoine Fabre 11 A VARIETY OF SPIRITUAL PLEASURES: ANTHONIS SALLAERT’S GLORIFICATION OF THE NAME OF JESUS James Clifton 12 MARVELS AND MARBLES IN THE ANTWERP JESUIT CHURCH: HENDRICK VAN BALEN’S STONE PAINTINGS OF THE LIFE OF THE VIRGIN (1621) Anna C. Knaap 13 THE SIMULACRA AVORUM IN JESUIT LATIN POEMS BY WALLIUS AND CARRARA: FROM VERGILIAN IMITATION TO SCHOLASTIC PHILOSOPHY AND ART THEORY Aline Smeesters 14 'TO MAKE YOURSELF PRESENT'. JESUIT SACRED SPACE AS ENARGETIC SPACE Steffen Zierholz 15 THE JESUIT STRATEGY OF ACCOMMODATION Jeffrey Muller Index

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Book SynopsisArchitecture and Control makes a collective critical intervention into the relationship between architecture, including virtual architectures, and practices of control since the turn of the twentieth to twenty-first centuries. Authors from the fields of architectural theory, literature, film and cultural studies come together here with visual artists to explore the contested sites at which, in the present day, attempts at gaining control give rise to architectures of control as well as the potential for architectures of resistance. Together, these contributions make clear how a variety of post-2000 architectures enable control to be established, all the while observing how certain architectures and infrastructures allow for alternative, progressive modes of control, and even modes of the unforeseen and the uncontrolled, to arise. Contributors are: Pablo Bustinduy, Rafael Dernbach, Alexander R. Galloway, Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Maria Finn, Runa Johannessen, Natalie Koerner, Michael Krause, Samantha Martin-McAuliffe, Lorna Muir, Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen, Anne Elisabeth Sejten and Joey Whitfield

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Book SynopsisThis volume focusses on a rarely discussed method of meaning production, namely via the absence, rather than presence, of signifiers. It does so from an interdisciplinary, transmedial perspective, which covers systematic, media-comparative and historical aspects, and reveals various forms and functions of missing signifiers across arts and media. The meaningful silences, blanks, lacunae, pauses, etc., treated by the ten contributors are taken from language and literature, film, comics, opera and instrumental music, architecture, and the visual arts. Contributors are: Nassim Balestrini, Walter Bernhart, Olga Fischer, Saskia Jaszoltowski, Henry Keazor, Peter Revers, Klaus Rieser, Daniel Stein, Anselm Wagner, Werner Wolf

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Book SynopsisThe second volume of Leonardo Studies explores a dual theme of nature and architecture, offering a wide-ranging overview of current Leonardo scholarship on these two abundant subjects. While Leonardo worked on his Treatise on Painting, he noted that understanding the physical properties of nature must precede individual projects of painting or designing buildings. The volume begins with the Trattato, and follows with physics, geology, painting that imitates architectural structure and vice-versa, and proceeds to architectural projects, questions of attribution, urban planning, and and the dissemination of Leonardo’s writings in the Trattato and its historiography. This impressive group of articles constitutes not only new research, but also a departure point for future studies on these topics. Contributors are: Janis Bell, Andrea Bernardoni, Marco Carpiceci, Paolo Cavagnero, Fabio Colonnese, Kay Etheridge, Diane Ghirardo, Claudio Giorgione, Domenico Laurenza, Catherine Lucheck, Silvio Mara, Jill Pederson, Richard Schofield, Sara Taglialagamba, Cristiano Tessari, Marco Versiero, and Raffaella Zama.Trade Review“This volume provides a broad and rich discussion of the artist from a variety of viewpoints. It is enhanced with numerous color illustrations, detailed footnotes, and a bibliography. […] the patient reader will find much that is novel and illuminating within these pages, and come away looking forward to the next installment in the Leonardo Studies series.” Caroline Hillard, Wright State University. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 74, No. 2 (Summer 2021), pp. 580–582. “important” Matthew Landrus, University of Oxford. In: The Art Newspaper, No. 318 (December 2019), p. 15.Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments List of Figures Introduction Part 1 Natural Properties and Nature  1 The Treatise on Painting as a Guide to Nature: Light and Color  Janis Bell  2 Experimenting and Measuring Natural Powers: a Preliminary Study on Leonardo’s Ways to Quantify the Intensity of Percussion  Andrea Bernardoni  3 The Weight of Water  Paolo Cavagnero  4 Leonardo and the Whale  Kay Etheridge  5 Geology and Anatomy in the Sixteenth–Nineteenth Centuries: Some Suggestions towards a Comparative Analysis  Domenico Laurenza  6 Leonardo’s Brambles and Their Afterlife in Rubens’s Studies of Nature  Catherine H. Lusheck  7 “Under the Shade of the Mulberry Tree”: Reconstructing Nature in Leonardo’s Sala delle Asse  Jill Pederson Part 2 Architecture  8 Leonardo, St. Jerome, and the Illyrians’ Church in Rome  Marco Carpiceci and Fabio Colonnese  9 Idea and Authorship in Renaissance Architecture  Diane Yvonne Francis Ghirardo  10 A Humanistic Debate in Renaissance Milan surrounding the Tiburio of the Duomo, from Filarete to Bramante and Leonardo da Vinci  Claudio Giorgione  11 Leonardo and Architecture in the Critical Views of Giuseppe Bossi (1808-1810)  Silvio Mara  12 Aspects of Church Design from Brunelleschi and Alberti to Leonardo and Bramante  Richard Schofield and Cristiano Tessari  13 Leonardo’s edifici d’acqua  Sara Taglialagamba  14 Leonardo’s Town Planning Studies: the Encounter of Nature, Economy and Politics  Marco Versiero  15 Ludovico il Moro and the Dynastic Homeland as the “Ideal City”: Cotignola in the Opinion of Leonardo and Luca Pacioli  Raffaella Zama Bibliography 385 Index

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Book SynopsisAn examination of interactions between sight and hearing in Italian church decoration from 1260-1320. Giotto and other artists used naturalism to activate worshipers' spiritual listening, a source of anxiety for authorities in this "age of vision." This book has received the Weiss-Brown Publication Subvention Award from the Newberry Library, supporting the publication of outstanding works on European civilization before 1700 in the areas of music, theater, French or Italian literature, and cultural studies.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Illustrations Introduction: An Unheard Art  1 Knowing Hearing  2 Hearing Eclipsed  3 Shapers of Ears  4 Monumental Sounds 1 Listening Up  1 Aural Sensitivities  2 Lost Hearing  3 Great Listeners 2 The Ear, Estranged  1 Seeing Listening  2 Ear Blindness  3 Stasis and Significance 3 A Feast for the Ears  1 Giotto’s The Wedding Feast at Cana  2 Scale of Listening  3 Rebirth through the Ear  4 Aural Ambitions 4 Sound Restoration  1 Nicola Pisano’s Pulpit in Pisa  2 Raising Voices  3 Silenced Skeptic  4 Antique Resonance  5 Muted Clergy  6 Sculptural Ephpheta! 5 Higher Fidelity  1 The Isaac Frescoes in Assisi  2 Return of the Repressed Sense  3 Aural Ancestry  4 Hidden by Sight  5 Auditory Interests Conclusion: Humbling Sight Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn Tracing the Visual Language of Raphael’s Circle to 1527, Alexis Culotta examines how the Renaissance master’s style – one infused with borrowed visual quotations from other artists both past and present – proved influential in his relationship with associate Baldassare Peruzzi and in the development of the artists within his thriving workshop. Shedding new light on the important, yet often-overshadowed, figures within this network, this book calls upon key case studies to convincingly illustrate how this visual language and its recombination evolved during Raphael’s Roman career and subsequently served as a springboard for artistic innovation for these close associates as they collaborated in the years following Raphael’s death.Trade Review“Despite the vast literature on it, the operation and importance of Raphael’s workshop is still much debated and little understood. This study restores agency and interest in artists and works of art that have long been little considered or overshadowed by Raphael himself. The author demonstrates that Raphael (1483–1520) developed a style of “recombination”— infused with visual quotations from ancient and contemporaneous artists—that proved influential in the development of a shared visual language among members of his entourage. Case studies illustrate how this shared, collaborative style evolved during Raphael’s lifetime and was perpetuated by members of the workshop in the years immediately following the artist’s death.” W. E. Wallace, Washington University, in CHOICE Connect, a publication of the Association of College and Research Libraries, Volume 58, issue 10Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Illustrations Introduction  1 Reclaiming Raphael’s Workshop  2 Mechanics of a Visual Language: Imitation/Emulation/Repetition/Recombination  3 Recombination in Light of Competition and Collaboration  4 Revisiting Recombination within the Workshop  5 Continuing the Conversation 1 Origins of a Visual Language  1 The Prevalent Language of the Classical  2 The Visual Language of the Papacy  3 The Visual Language of Raphael  4 The Language of Recombination in the Stanza della Segnatura 2 Visual Language through the Lens of Competition at the Villa Farnesina  1 Commissions from Agostino Chigi  2 Raphael, Sebastiano, and Competition 3 Collaborative Practice and Emerging Workshop Mentalities  1 Partnering with Peruzzi  2 Raphael’s Workshop Takes Form  3 The Capstone of Chigi’s Villa  4 Revisiting the “Raphael Rooms”  5 The Stanza dell’Incendio  6 The Vatican Loggie  7 Sala di Costantino  8 Beyond the Vatican 4 Giovanni da Udine, Perino del Vaga, and Polidoro da Caravaggio, at the Palazzo Baldassini  1 Melchiorre Baldassini (1470–1522)  2 Sangallo’s Designs  3 Giovanni da Udine and the Quotation of Antiquity  4 Perino del Vaga, Polidoro da Caravaggio, and the Piano Nobile 5 Giulio Romano, Gianfrancesco Penni, and Polidoro da Caravaggio at the Villa Lante al Gianicolo  1 Baldassarre Turini (1486–1543)  2 A Challenge of Attribution and Dating  3 Giulio’s Designs  4 The Lateral Sale  5 The Grand Salone 6 Polidoro da Caravaggio and Maturino da Firenze from the Frescoed Facade to the Fetti Chapel  1 Fra Mariano Fetti (d. 1531)  2 A Complicated History  3 Peruzzi, Polidoro, and Painted Illusion  4 Illusions of Landscape in the Fetti Chapel 7 Santa Maria Della Pace and a Pastiche by Peruzzi  1 Filippo Sergardi (1466–1541)  2 A Pastiche of Figures  3 A Pastiche of Architecture Epilogue Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe commodification of Islamic antiques intensified in the late Ottoman Empire, an age of domestic reform and increased European interference following the Tanzimat (reorganisation) of 1839. Mercedes Volait examines the social life of typical objects moving from Cairo and Damascus to Paris, London, and beyond, uncovers the range of agencies and subjectivities involved in the trade of architectural salvage and historic handicraft, and traces impacts on private interiors, through creative reuse and Revival design, in Egypt, Europe and America. By devoting attention to both local and global engagements with Middle Eastern tangible heritage, the present volume invites to look anew at Orientalism in art and interior design, the canon of Islamic architecture and the translocation of historic works of art.Trade Review"With Antique Dealing and Creative Reuse in Cairo and Damascus 1850–1890, Volait has produced a truly ground-breaking study that should be required reading not only for scholars of Islamic art and architecture, but also for those of broader material culture studies. Its findings require us to approach questions of global material entanglement with greater nuance, even if we do not necessarily arrive at the same interpretive conclusions that Volait does. This is a book that will undoubtedly inspire a new generation of students to emulate the author’s rigorous research methodologies and think more critically about cultural appropriation and exchange.." Ellen Kenney, in: Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide 21/3 (2022)Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Illustrations Introduction: Connecting Historiographies, Challenging Assumptions  1 Things, People and Places  2 Structure of the Book  3 A Variety of Sources  4 Data Re-Identification  5 Revising the Narrative 1 Early Shows and Sales of Islamic Antiques in Paris  1 Orientalia at the Musée rétrospectif in 1865  2 Egyptian Architectural Salvage at the Exposition universelle of 1867  3 The Sale and Display of an Egyptian Collection in 1869  4 Shifting Trajectories and Contexts 2 Expanding Trades in Late Ottoman Cairo and Damascus  1 Distinctive Profiles and Iconic Artefacts  2 The kursī as Global Commodity  3 Market Adjustments 3 Conflicted Commodification in Cairo  1 Urban and Domestic Reform  2 Inducement and Resistance to Commodification  3 Contrasting Attitudes 4 Fashioning Immersive Displays in Egypt and Beyond  1 Atmospheric Interiors for Western Connoisseurs  2 The Living Culture of Reuse in Egypt  3 The Social Outreach of Revivalism  4 Islamic Art as Intrinsically Architectural 5 Guise and Disguise Before and During the Tanzimat  1 Codification and the Intricacies of Cross-Cultural Dressing in Pre-Tanzimat Times  2 Dressing Native in Nineteenth-Century Egypt and Back Home  3 Costume for History and Leisure in Painting and Photography  4 A Gendered Collecting Culture Epilogue: Diverging Routes  1 Bygone Ways of Inhabiting the Past and the World  2 Estrangements  3 Endurances References  Primary Sources  Websites  Printed Sources  Bibliography Indices   Index of Personal Names  Index of Place Names  General Index

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Book SynopsisFeaturing new archival research and previously unpublished photographs and architectural plans, this volume fundamentally revises our understanding of the development of modern New York, focusing on elite domestic architecture within the contexts of social history, urban planning, architecture, interior design, and adaptive re-use. Contributions from emerging and established scholars, art historians, and practitioners offer a multi-faceted analysis of major figures such as Horace Trumbauer, Julian Francis Abele, Robert Venturi, and Richard Kelly. Taking the James B. Duke House, now home to NYU’s Institute of Fine Arts, as its point of departure, this collection provides fresh perspectives on domestic spaces, urban forms, and social reforms that shaped early-twentieth century New York into the modern city we know today.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Contributors Introduction  Jean-Louis Cohen, Daniella Berman, and Jon Ritter Portfolio: Duke House Maps: Mansions on the Upper East Side 1 The City Beautiful, Zoning, and Preservation on New York’s Upper East Side  Jon Ritter 2 A “Gilded Stall” for the Progressive Era: Fabricating Aristocracy on Fifth Avenue  Matthew Worsnick 3 Building in “Splendid Style”: Duke House and the Development of the Cook Block  Alisa Chiles 4 Beaux-Arts Architects and Their Mansions  Isabelle Gournay 5 Mr. Duke Builds His Dream House  Mosette Broderick 6 “Good Taste” and the Making of Duke House: Francophilia, Architecture, and Adaptation  Daniella Berman 7 Commissioning Interiors: Carlhian and Duveen at Duke House  Grace Chuang 8 Dukes to Profs: Robert Venturi’s primum opus on 78th Street  Jean-Louis Cohen 9 Renovation and Illumination: Richard Kelly at the Institute  Christie Mitchell 10 Preservation on the Cook Block: An Architect’s Perspective  Theodore Prudon Select Bibliography List of Illustrations Index of Persons and Organizations Index of Buildings and Places

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Book SynopsisThe studies in this volume go beyond the question of the authenticity of Prophetic narrations, which has occupied the field of Hadith Studies for over a century. By approaching hadith narrations and literature from various perspectives, the authors seek to uncover the potential that hadith material has to better understand the intellectual and social history of Muslim societies. Applying concepts and methods from other disciplines, the authors study the materiality of hadith collections, the places they were read, and the ways they were incorporated in architecture. Additionally, they explore understudied genres such as the forty-hadith, the faḍāʾil, aḥādīth al-aḥkām, and ʿawālī collections. As such, they set a new course to push the field of Hadith Studies in a new direction.Table of ContentsList of Figures Introduction: Beyond Authenticity Alternative Approaches to Hadith and Hadith Literature  Mohammad Gharaibeh 1 Compilation Criticism Exploring Overarching Structures in the Six Books  Stephen R. Burge 2 Teaching Islam in Yemen Insights from Two Forty Hadith Collections  Scott C. Lucas 3 The Prophet’s Ideal in Pocket-Size Sunni Forty Hadith Collections  Swantje Bartschat 4 The aḥādīth al-aḥkām Genre and the Ḥanbalī School  Jewel Jalil 5 The ʿawālī Genre and Its Social Dimension  Mohammad Gharaibeh 6 For the Love of the Prophet Faḍāʾil in the Early Modern Ottoman Context  Dženita Karić 7 “As If the Prophet Stood in Front of You” The Performative Meaning of Hadith Transmission and Its Prophetological Background in Late Formative Sunnism  Ruggero Vimercati Sanseverino 8 Old Is the New Authentic Arabic Papyri as a Source for Early Hadith  Ursula Bsees 9 The Materiality of Hadith Scholarship in the Post-Canonical Period  Konrad Hirschler 10 Where Was Hadith Read in Damascus? Audition Notices and the Loci of Hadith Transmission in Medieval Damascus  Garrett Davidson 11 The Word of the Beloved Prophet of Islam Hadiths Inscribed on Cairo’s Islamic Architecture  Noha Abou-Khatwa 12 Hadith Inscriptions in Medieval Anatolian Architecture The Case of the Qaraṭay Madrasa in Konya and the Great Mosque in Birgi  Mehmetcan Akpınar Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume, the second of three, offers an anthology of Western descriptions of Islamic religious buildings in Syria, Egypt and North Africa, mostly from the seventeenth to early twentieth centuries, taken from travel books and ambassadorial reports. (The third volume will deal with Islamic palaces around the Mediterranean.) As travel became easier and cheaper, thanks to better roads, steamships, hotels and railways, tourist numbers increased, museums accumulated eastern treasures, illustrated journals proliferated, and photography provided accurate data. All three deal with the impact of Western trade, taste and imports on the East, and examine the encroachment of westernised modernism.Table of ContentsContents Preface to the Three Volumes ix List of Illustrations xi 1 Introduction  1 The Crusades and Their Impact  2 Contacts Through Trade  3 Manuscripts Throughout the Empire  4 Nineteenth-century Travel and Tourism  5 Jerusalem and Cairo  6 The survival of Islam  7 Muslims, Christians and Jews  8 Dress and Stability: Two Disparities between West and East  9 Arrangement of the Book 2 Syria and the Holy Land  1 Mosques and How to Enter Them  2 Sketching Islamic Antiquities: Paper and Panoramas  3 Acre: Djezzar’s Mosque  4 Baalbek  5 Damascus  6 Gaza and Nablus  7 Hebron  8 Baghdad (Present-day Iraq)  9 Jerusalem  10 The Haram al Sharif and Its Monuments  11 Ramla/Rama  12 Sidon 3 Alexandria and Cairo  1 Alexandria’s Mosques  2 Alexandria’s and Cairo’s Reuse of Antiquities  3 The Pyramids  4 Cairo  5 Boulaq  6 The Delights of the Citadel  7 Northern and Southern Cemeteries  8 Cairo, Odernism and Islamic Survivals 4 North Africa  1 Setting the Scene  2 Algeria  3 Could Arabic Architecture Survive in (French) Algeria?  4 Algiers (Occupied 1830)  5 Bougie (Occupied 1833)  6 Constantine (Occupied 1837)  7 Tlemcen Environs and Its Monuments  8 Tlemcen City (Occupied 1836)  9 The Oasis of Sidi Okba  10 Morocco  11 Fez  12 Photography in Fez and Elsewhere  13 Marrakesh/Morocco  14 Mequinez/Meknès  15 Salee, Rabat and Shellah  16 Tangier  17 Tetuan  18 Tunisia (French Protectorate 1881–1956)  19 Gafsa and Béja  20 Kairouan  21 Sousse and Environs  22 Testour  23 Tunis  24 Libya  25 Tripoli in Barbary 5 Exhibiting Islamic Lands: Trade, Travel and Empire  1 Overview  2 Easier and Cheaper Travel  3 Artists, Exhibitions and Moving Images  4 Dancing in the Cairo Street  5 Paris 1867 and Dancing Girls Bibliography – Sources Bibliography – Modern Scholars Index Illustrations

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Book SynopsisThis book considers the post-68 French city as a prism through which to understand the contemporary world and France’s specificity within it. The reader is invited to join in a series of exploratory strolls through texts, buildings, and neighborhoods, and thereby share in a process of discovery. Zeroing in on international architectural debates, a range of key Parisian exhibitions, and major urban design decisions in Paris, Montpellier, and Lille, Yaari unravels an often-acerbic French critique of both modern and postmodern positions on culture, technology, and the city. This critique—stemming from the competing claims of national identity, the ethics of architecture and display, and an anthropologically informed revision of prevailing views on the city—has sparked in France a passionate search for a third path, which the author proposes to term après-moderne. Breaking new ground in the field of French Studies through cultural analysis of the contemporary city, this study brings new insight to scholars and professionals in architecture and urbanism, and will interest all others for whom France and cities in general hold special appeal.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Acronyms Introduction: A Project Unfolds Debates: Aesthetics, Society, Identity Modern/Postmodern Elsewhere, Perhaps, or the “après-moderne” Regional Capitals: The North-South Axis Montpellier Lille The National Capital: Center and Periphery, Looking Eastward Beaubourg Display Wars Belleville Mending the Margins, Mixing the Cultures The Urban Park of La Villette Conclusion: The City and the French après-moderne Notes List of Figures and Credits Works Cited Index-Personal Names

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Book SynopsisArchitecture and Philosophy: New Perspectives on the Work of Arakawa and Madeline Gins is a collection of essays on the work of artist-architects Arakawa and Madeline Gins and in particular their book Architectural Body (2000). The essays approach their cutting edge and ambitious project to design 'an architecture against death' from various angles and disciplines including aesthetics, architecture, linguistics, philosophy. The papers retrace the place of Architectural Body in the aesthetic landscape of art at the turn of the 21st century and assess the utopian stance of their work.Table of ContentsJean-Jacques Lecercle and Françoise Kral: Preface Jean-Jacques Lecercle: Gins and Arakawa, or The Passage to Materialism Jed Rasula: Endless House—Architectural Body Alan Prohm: Architecture and Poetic Efficacy: Architectural Poetics Fionn C. Bennett: “Autopoietic Event Matrices” in Architecture and in Literature: Wordsworth Talks to Arakawa and Gins Joshua Schuster: How Architecture Became Biotopian: From Meta-Biology to Causal Networks in Arakawa and Gins’ Architectural Body Françoise Kral: Architectural Body as Generative Utopia? Chris L. Smith: Preceding an Architectural Body Jondi Keane: A Bioscleave Report: Constructing the Perceiver Ronald Shusterman: Leafing Through a Universe: Architectural Bodies and Fictional Worlds Simone Rinzler: Arakawa and Gins’s Architectural Body: a Transgeneric Manifesto Linda Pillière: “No Mere Play on Words.” A stylistic Analysis of Architectural Body Authors Appendix

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