History of architecture Books

Book SynopsisVolume 7 of Walter Spink's monumental and still controversial study of the famous Ajanta caves considers the many connections between the Bagh caves and its “sister site”, Ajanta, particularly emphasizing the leading role that Bagh plays in the crucial matter of Buddhist shrine development and the transition from the aniconic to iconic forms of worship. He also explains the relationships between certain caves and solstices, as well as changing technologies, especially in the development of the door fittings in the monks’ cells.

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Book SynopsisSyria's Monuments: their Survival and Destruction examines the fate of the various monuments in Syria (including present-day Lebanon, Jordan and Palestine/Israel) from Late Antiquity to the fall of the Ottoman Empire in the early 20th century. It examines travellers’ accounts, mainly from the 17th to 19th centuries, which describe religious buildings and housing in numbers and quality unknown elsewhere. The book charts the reasons why monuments lived or died, varying from earthquakes and desertification to neglect and re-use, and sets the political and social context for the Empire’s transformation toward a modern state, provoked by Western trade and example. An epilogue assesses the impact of the recent civil war on the state of the monuments, and strategies for their resurrection, with plentiful references and web links.Table of ContentsContents Introduction The Extent of Syri Mapping Syria The Syria of Yesterday 1 The State of Syria in Recent Centuries Governance Earthquakes and Disease Trade Circassians and Other Settlers amongst the Monuments Nomadic Arabs Agriculture and Desertification Conclusion: Impact of Ottoman Decline on Antiquities 2 Travel throughout Syria Where to Go and How to Get There Languages, Dress and Descriptions Scholars in the East The Bible as a Guidebook Changing Horizons Meet the Unchanging East Biblical Monuments “Identified” Other Guidebooks: Baedeker, Cook & Murray Confected Guidebooks: An Example Travel then Tourism: The Agony and the Ecstasy Taxes and Robbery Profiteering Sheikhs Haram/Forbidden: Access to Muslim Sites Architectural Quality: Is Syria Worth Visiting? One-upmanship and Verbal Wars in Travel Narratives Modernisation Changes Travelling in the Unchanging East Conclusion 3 The Life and Death of Monuments Superstitions and Monuments Treasure-hunting and Locals’ Knowledge of the Past Vandalism Roads Milestones Bridges Railways Aqueducts Temples Degradation Locals and Antiquities Columns as Structural Tie-bars Mosaics and Veneers Quarries and Marble Re-use Ancient Towns and Villages and Their Houses 4 The Seabord: Harbours and Ports North to South 5 Aleppo and the North 238 6 Damascus and the Centre 262 7 Bosra and the South 287 8 West of the River Jordan 319 9 East of the River Jordan 331 10 Fortresses Roman, Muslim and Crusader 356 11 Mayhem: Archaeology, Museums and Mandates 379 Archaeology Digging in Palestine Filling Western Museums The First World War and the French & British Mandates Conclusion Epilogue: The Monuments of Syria in 2016 Syria: Timelines History of Archaeology and Travel in Syria Recent Political/Military Developments in the Region, and Their Sources Websites Detailing Syria’s Monuments Damaged Sites, Monuments and Museums Photographic Evidence of Destruction in Syria Guides/Surveys of Monuments and Regions Computer Reconstructions Conclusion: Warning about “Restoration” Appendix: Brief Biographies of Traveller-Scholars Bibliography Index Illustrations

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Book SynopsisIn The Globalization of Renaissance Art: A Critical Review, Daniel Savoy assembles an interdisciplinary group of scholars to evaluate the global discourse on early modern European art. Over the course of eleven chapters and a roundtable, the contributors assess the discourse’s goal of transcending Eurocentric boundaries, reflecting on the strengths and weaknesses of current terms, methods, theories, and concepts. Although it is clear that the global perspective has exposed the artistic and cultural pluralism of early modern Europe, it is found that more work needs to be done at the epistemological level of art history as a whole. Contributors: Claire Farago, Elizabeth Horodowich, Lauren Jacobi, Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, Jessica Keating, Stephanie Leitch, Emanuele Lugli, Lia Markey, Sean Roberts, Ananda Cohen-Aponte, and Marie Neil Wolff.Table of ContentsContents List of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors Introduction  Daniel Savoy Part 1 Global Genealogies 1 A Global Florence and its Blind Spots  Sean Roberts 2 Otto Kurz’s Global Vision  Jessica Keating Part 2 Beyond Eurocentrism 3 Decolonizing the Global Renaissance: A View from the Andes  Ananda Cohen-Aponte 4 Ranges of Response: Asian Appropriation of European Art and Culture  Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann Part 3 A Borderless Renaissance 5 Reconsidering the World-system: The Agency and Material Geography of Gold  Lauren Jacobi 6 Linking the Mediterranean: The Construction of Trading Networks in 14th and 15th-century Italy  Emanuele Lugli 7 Cosmopolitan Renaissance: Prints in the Age of Exchange  Stephanie Leitch 8 The World Seen from Venice: Representing the Americas in Grand-scale Wall Maps  Elizabeth Horodowich Part 4 Instituting the Global 9 Global Renaissance Art: Classroom, Academy, Museum, Canon  Lia Markey 10 Zones of Indifference  Marie Neil Wolff 11 The “Global Turn” in Art History: Why, When, and How Does It Matter?  Claire Farago Epilogue: Roundtable Index

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Book SynopsisIn City Views in the Habsburg and Medici Courts, Ryan E. Gregg relates how Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, and Duke Cosimo I of Tuscany employed city view artists such as Anton van den Wyngaerde and Giovanni Stradano to aid in constructing authority. These artists produced a specific style of city view that shared affinity with Renaissance historiographic practice in its use of optical evidence and rhetorical techniques. History has tended to see city views as accurate recordings of built environments. Bringing together ancient and Renaissance texts, archival material, and fieldwork in the depicted locations, Gregg demonstrates that a close-knit school of city view artists instead manipulated settings to help persuade audiences of the truthfulness of their patrons’ official narratives.Trade Review“densely informative, intelligently written and richly researched.” Valeria Manfrè, Universidad de Valladolid. In: Imago Mundi, Vol. 72, No. 1 (2020), p. 75-76. “ein höchst anregendes, mit großer Sorgfalt und Umsicht gearbeitetes Werk mit reichhaltiger Bibliographie und Register.” Ferdinand Opll, Universität Wien. In: Wiener Geschichtsblätter, 74. Jahrgang, Heft 3 (2019), S. 329-331.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations Introduction 1 Witnessing Sovereignty: Anton van den Wyngaerde’s City Views as Habsburg Courtly Propaganda  1 The Archival Material: Their Evidentiary Problems and Indications  2 Eyewitness to History: The Habsburg Use of City Views  3 Genoa: City View as History and as Impresa  4 Cantecroy, Mechelen, and the English Palaces: Claims of Dominion  5 Brussels and Utrecht: Demonstrations of Sovereignty  6 The Italian Views: Van den Wyngaerde in the Imperial Train  7 Ancona and Lyon  8 Conclusion 2 The Antwerp School of City Views  1 Fertile Foundations  2 The Catalyst: Charles V’s Entry into Rome  3 Technique, Style, and Viewing Experiences  4 Coalition  5 Contemporary Recognition  6 Conclusion 3 Vasari, Historiography, and the Rhetoric of City Views  1 History, Truthfulness, and Setting  2 The Tropes of Enargeia: Sieges, Ships, and City Views  3 Viewing City Towers: Vision, Cognition, and Simulacra  4 Nature or Artifice? The Mannerism of Antwerp School City Views  5 City Views as Analogy for Judgment  6 Enargeia and Eyewitnessing in Vasari’s Historiographic Practice  7 Vasari’s Description of City View Methodology: a Verbal Artist Figure  8 Borghini’s New Historiography and the City Views  9 Conclusion 4 Defining Ducal Dominion: Giovanni Stradano’s City Views in the Apartment of Leo X  1 The Room of Giovanni delle Bande Nere  2 The Room of Clement VII  3 The Room of Cosimo I  4 Conclusion Coda: Heirs to Dominion  1 Heirs to Patronage Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisA Companion to Medieval Toledo. Reconsidering the Canons explores the limits of “Convivencia” through new and problematized readings of material familiar to specialists and offers a thoughtful initiation for the non-specialist into the historical, cultural, and religious complexity of the iconic city of Toledo. The volume seeks to understand the history and cultural heritage of the city as a result of fluctuating coexistence. Divided into three themed sections,- the essays consider additional material, new transcriptions, and perspectives that contribute to more nuanced understandings of traditional texts or events. The volume places this cultural history and these new readings into current scholarly debates and invites its readers to do the same.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction Part 1: The City and Shared Spaces 1 Al-Ma‌‌ʾmūn of Toledo: A Warrior in the Palace Garden  Michelle Hamilton 2 Prestige to Power: Toledo’s Cathedral Chapter and Assimilated Identity  Patrick Harris 3 Evolución de las fortificaciones medievales en la Península Ibérica: el caso de Toledo  Fernando Valdés Fernandez Part 2: Theology/Genealogy/Kinship 4 Old Hispanic Chant Manuscripts of Toledo: Testimonies of a Local or of a Wider Tradition?  Raquel Rojo Carrillo 5 Christian Theology in Arabic and the Mozarabs of Medieval Toledo: Primary Texts, Main Themes, and Potential Problems  Jason Busic 6 Toledo 1449: The Complex Political Space(s) and Dynamics of Civic Violence  Linde M. Brocato 7 Toledo as a Geographical and Literary Reference in the Blood-Libel Legend  David Navarro Part 3: Language and Translation 8 Shared Legal Spaces in the Arabic Language Notarial Documents of Toledo  Yasmine Beale-Rivaya 9 Tathlīth al-waḥdāniyya (The Trebling of the Oneness): Translated from Arabic  Clint Hackenburg 10 The Toledan Translation Movement and Dominicus Gundissalinus: Some Remarks on His Activity and Presence in Castile  Nicola Polloni Epilogue: Re-reading the Canons of Medieval Toledo: Echoes of Debates of Iberian Historiography General Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisA Companion to Medieval Lübeck offers an introduction to recent scholarship on the vibrant and source-rich medieval history of Lübeck. Focusing mainly on the twelfth to fifteenth centuries, the volume positions the city of Lübeck within the broader history of Northern Germany and the Baltic Sea area. Thematic contributions highlight the archaeological and architectonical development of a northern town, religious developments, buildings and art in a Hanseatic city, and its social institutions. This volume is the first English-language overview of the history of Lübeck and a corrective to the traditional narratives of German historiography. The volume thus offers a fresh perspective on the history of medieval Lübeck—as well as a handy introduction to the riches of the Lübeck archives—to undergraduates, graduate students, and scholars in related fields. Contributors are Manfred Finke, Hartmut Freytag, Antjekathrin Graßmann, Angela Huang, Carsten Jahnke, Ursula Radis, Anja Rasche, Dirk Rieger, Harm von Seggern and Ulf Stammwitz.Trade Review"This book must be wholeheartedly recommended to anyone working on medieval urban history. It fills an amazing gap in historical studies in English about the World Heritage Site the city of Lübeck. It provides an invaluable introduction to recent scholarship about many aspects of this leading Hanseatic city in the Middle Ages, each section written by an expert in that topic. [...] the authors of each of the different sections achieve a new, all embracing international overview of their different subjects. They examine the city in the wider historical context of the social and geographical area and achieve a remarkable depth of information about many of the crucial elements of its history, so making possible a precise comparison with major maritime cities elsewhere in Europe such as Venice and Marseille". Sybil Jack, in Parergon, 38.1 (2021). "Der Band erfüllt, um das Wesentliche vorwegzunehmen, den Anspruch, den die Reihe setzt, und dies nicht nur, weil er angesichts rarer angelsächsischer Studien über das mittelalterliche Lübeck ein langjähriges Desiderat schließt. Mit ihm liegt tatsächlich ein nahezu mustergültiger, durchweg von Fachexperten erstellter Zugang zu den verschiedenen Themenbereichen vor." Felskau in ZEITSCHRIFT FÜR LÜBECKISCHE GESCHICHTE, Band 100 (2020/2021).

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Book SynopsisPirro Ligorio’s Worlds brings renowned Ligorio specialists into conversation with emerging young scholars, on various aspects of the artistic, antiquarian and intellectual production of one of the most fascinating and learned antiquaries in the prestigious entourage of Cardinal Alessandro Farnese. The book takes a more nuanced approach to the complex topic of Ligorio’s ‘forgeries’, investigating them in relation to previously neglected aspects of his life and work.Trade Review"This well-written and aesthetically pleasing volume presents an excellent image of a previously often misunderstood artist and creates understanding for the passion he and his contemporaries felt for the restoration of the Roman Empire in a Christian direction." (translated from Swedish) Kari Lawe, Swedish institute in Rome, in ‘Kyrkohistorisk Årsskrift’ pp. 159-161Table of ContentsPreface  Anthony Grafton List of Figures Introduction: Pirro Ligorio’s Worlds, or, an Invitation to Navigate the Boundaries of Truth  Fernando Loffredo and Ginette Vagenheim  Pirro Ligorio versus Philology 1 Pirro Ligorio’s Antiquarian Philology  Robert W. Gaston 2 Editing Ligorio’s Epigraphic Manuscripts: New Discoveries and New Issues  Silvia Orlandi 3 The Epigraphical Forgeries in the Construction of Pirro Ligorio’s Libro XXXIX on Roman Antiquities  Nicoletta Balistreri 4 Drawing Circles: Pirro Ligorio’s Working Methods as Evidenced in His Numismatic Manuscripts  Sarah E. Cox  Pirro Ligorio and the Ancient World 5 Pirro Ligorio’s Evidence for the Cult of Jupiter Dolichenus in Rome and Religious Life at the Barracks  Blair Fowlkes-Childs 6 Pirro Ligorio and Sicilian Antiquities: Indifference or an Unwitting “Short Circuit”?  Federico Rausa 7 Looking for Sirens: Ancient Sites in Naples According to Pirro Ligorio  Anna Schreurs-Morét  Pirro Ligorio and the Renaissance Villa 8 Pirro Ligorio’s Casino of Pius IV Reconsidered, or, Why People Love Ligorio’s Buildings  Arnold Nesselrath 9 Pirro Ligorio and St Peter’s Basilica: More on the Historical-Christian Investigations and on a Medieval “Reuse” in the Casino of Pius IV  Carmelo Occhipinti 10 The Villa d’Este at Tivoli and Its Gardens in Marc-Antoine Muret’s Tivoli Cycle of Poems and Uberto Foglietta’s Tyburtinum  George Hugo Tucker  Pirro Ligorio and the Visual Arts 11 Pirro Ligorio’s Oxford Album  Ian Campbell 12 In the Shadow of Polidoro da Caravaggio: Pirro Ligorio as a Draftsman  Ginette Vagenheim 13 “Pirro Ligorio Neapolitan Painter,” 1534–1549 (With a New Addition on His Late Activity as an Architect)  Patrizia Tosini 14 Pirro Ligorio and Sculpture, or, on the Reproducibility of Antiquity  Fernando Loffredo Conclusions  Marcello Fagiolo (with an appendix by Fabio Colonnese) Bibliography Index of Ancient Names Index of Modern Authors Index of Topography Index of Inscriptions

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Book SynopsisA Companion to the Renaissance in Southern Italy offers readers unfamiliar with Southern Italy an introduction to different aspects of the fifteenth- and sixteenth-century history and culture of this vast and significant area of Europe, situated at the center of the Mediterranean. Commonly regarded as a backward, rural region untouched by the Italian Renaissance, the essays in this volume paint a rather different picture. The expert-written contributions present a general survey of the most recent research on the centers of southern Italy, as well as insight into the ground-breaking debates on wider themes, such as the definition of the city, continuity and discontinuity at the turn of the sixteenth century, and the effects of dynastic changes from the Angevin and Aragonese Kingdom to the Spanish Viceroyalty. Taken together, they form an essential resource on an important, yet all too often overlooked or misunderstood part of Renaissance Italy. Contributors: Giancarlo Abbamonte, David Abulafia, Guido Cappelli, Chiara De Caprio, Bianca de Divitiis, Fulvio Delle Donne, Teresa D’Urso, Dinko Fabris, Guido Giglioni, Antonietta Iacono, Fulvio Lenzo, Lorenzo Miletti, Francesco Montuori, Pasquale Palmieri, Eleni Sakellariou, Francesco Senatore, Francesco Storti, Pierluigi Terenzi, Carlo Vecce, Giuliana Vitale, and Andrea Zezza.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Maps and Figures Notes on Contributors Introduction  Bianca de Divitiis Part 1 The Context 1 The Aragonese Kingdom of Naples in Its Mediterranean Context  David Abulafia 2 The Kingdom of Naples from Aragonese to Spanish Rule  Pierluigi Terenzi 3 Demography, Economy, and Trade  Eleni Sakellariou 4 Religion: Institutions, Devotion, and Heresy  Pasquale Palmieri 5 Linguistic Spaces: Use and Culture  Francesco Montuori 6 Mapping the Kingdom: History and Geography  Bianca de Divitiis and Fulvio Lenzo Part 2 Urban Networks 7 Cities, Towns, and Urban Districts in Southern Italy  Francesco Senatore 8 Urban Spaces and Society in Southern Italy  Giuliana Vitale 9 Factional Conflict and Political Struggle in Southern Italian Cities and Towns  Francesco Storti 10 Jews, Conversos and Cristiani Novelli in the Kingdom of Naples  David Abulafia 11 Territorial and Urban Infrastructures: Ports, Roads, and Water Supply  Fulvio Lenzo 12 Architectural Patronage and Networks  Bianca de Divitiis Part 3 Histories and Narratives 13 Historiography from the Aragonese Kingdom to the Spanish Viceroyalty  Fulvio Delle Donne 14 Political Treatises  Guido Cappelli 15 Writing about Cities: Local History, Antiquarianism, and Classical Sources  Lorenzo Miletti 16 Written and Oral Culture: Oral Narratives, Administrative Texts, Vernacular Historiography in Southern Italy  Chiara De Caprio 17 Literacy and Administration in the Towns of Southern Italy  Francesco Senatore Part 4 Cultural Patterns 18 Literature and Theater  Carlo Vecce 19 Philosophy in the Kingdom of Naples: The Long Renaissance from Giovanni Pontano to Giambattista Vico  Guido Giglioni 20 The Academies from the Death of Giovanni Gioviano Pontano to the End of the Sixteenth Century  Antonietta Iacono 21 Libraries of Humanists and of the Elites in Southern Italy  Giancarlo Abbamonte 22 Manuscript Illustration in the South of the Italian Peninsula  Teresa D’Urso 23 Paintings, Frescoes, and Cycles  Andrea Zezza 24 Music and Music Patronage at the Courts of the Kingdom  Dinko Fabris Kings and Viceroys Maps Figures Glossary Index

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Book SynopsisPicturing Death: 1200–1600 explores the visual culture of mortality over the course of four centuries that witnessed a remarkable flourishing of imagery focused on the themes of death, dying, and the afterlife. In doing so, this volume sheds light on issues that unite two periods—the Middle Ages and the Renaissance—that are often understood as diametrically opposed. The studies collected here cover a broad visual terrain, from tomb sculpture to painted altarpieces, from manuscripts to printed books, and from minute carved objects to large-scale architecture. Taken together, they present a picture of the ways that images have helped humans understand their own mortality, and have incorporated the deceased into the communities of the living. Contributors: Jessica Barker, Katherine Boivin, Peter Bovenmyer, Xavier Dectot, Maja Dujakovic, Brigit Ferguson, Alison C. Fleming, Fredrika Jacobs, Henrike C. Lange, Robert Marcoux, Walter S. Melion, Stephen Perkinson, Johanna Scheel, Mary Silcox, Judith Steinhoff, and Noa Turel.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction  Stephen Perkinson and Noa Turel part 1: Housing the Dead 1 Looking beyond the Face: Tomb Effigies and the Medieval Commemoration of the Dead  Robert Marcoux 2 Portraiture, Projection, Perfection: The Multiple Effigies of Enrico Scrovegni  Henrike Christiane Lange 3 Plorans ploravit in nocte: The Birth of the Figure of the Pleurant in Tomb Sculpture  Xavier Dectot 4 Gendering Prayer in Trecento Florence: Tomb Paintings in Santa Croce and San Remigio  Judith Steinhoff 5 Two-Story Charnel-House Chapels and the Space of Death in the Medieval City  Katherine M. Boivin part 2: Mortal Anxieties and Living Paradoxes 6 The Living Dead and the Joy of the Crucifixion  Brigit G. Ferguson 7 The Speaking Tomb: Ventriloquizing the Voices of the Dead  Jessica Barker 8 Feeding Worms: The Theological Paradox of the Decaying Body and Its Depictions in the Context of Prayer and Devotion  Johanna Scheel 9 Not Quite Dead: Imaging the Miracle of Infant Resuscitation  Fredrika H. Jacobs part 3: The Macabre, Instrumentalized 10 Dissecting for the King: Guido da Vigevano and the Anatomy of Death  Peter Bovenmyer 11 Covert Apotheoses: Archbishop Henry Chichele’s Tomb and the Vocational Logic of Early Transis  Noa Turel 12 Into Print: Early Illustrated Books and the Reframing of the Danse Macabre  Maja Dujakovic 13 Death Commodified: Macabre Imagery on Luxury Objects, c. 1500  Stephen Perkinson part 4: Departure and Persistence 14 Coemeterium Schola: The Emblematic Imagery of Death in Jan David’s Veridicus Christianus  Walter S. Melion 15 A Protestant Reconceptualization of Images of Death and the Afterlife in Stephen Bateman’s A Christall Glasse  Mary V. Silcox 16 Shifting Role Models within the Society of Jesus: The Abandonment of Grisly Martyrdom Images c. 1600  Alison C. Fleming Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn Modern Architecture, Empire, and Race in Fascist Italy, Brian L. McLaren examines the architecture of the late-Fascist era in relation to the various racial constructs that emerged following the occupation of Ethiopia in 1936 and intensified during the wartime. This study is conducted through a wide-ranging investigation of two highly significant state-sponsored exhibitions, the 1942 Esposizione Universale di Roma and 1940 Mostra Triennale delle Terre Italiane d'Oltremare. These exhibitions and other related imperial displays are examined over an extended span of time to better understand how architecture, art, and urban space, the politics and culture that encompassed them, the processes that formed them, and the society that experienced them, were racialized in varying and complex ways.Table of ContentsPreface List of Illustrations  Introduction  1 Imperial Ambitions  2 Racial Discontents  3 Foundational Arguments  4 Sources and Theoretical Premises  5 Organization and Content PART 1 Modern Urbanism and the Territorialization of Race  1 Introduction  2 Rural Urbanism, Colonial Urbanism 1 An Olympics of Civilization  1 Foundational Acts  2 The 1937 Master Plan  3 The 1937 Program 2 Commercial Networks and Colonial Geographies  1 Foundational Myths  2 Organizational Logic  3 The 1938 Master Plan 3 Urban Planning and Racial Politics  1 Addis Ababa, 1938  2 Esposizione Universale di Roma, 1938  3 Mostra d’Oltremare, 1939 PART 2 Modern Architecture and Racial Eugenics  1 Introduction  2 Art and Race  3 Architecture and Race 4 An Architecture of Racial Purification  1 First Public Competitions  2 Piazza ed Edifici delle Forze Armate 5 An Architecture of Racial Prestige  1 Public Competitions  2 Three Sectors: Mapping Race  3 The Padiglione della Libia: Staging Race 6 Autarchy in Architecture  1 A Journalistic Discourse  2 Autarchy at the E42  3 Artistic Parallels PART 3 Architecture, Racial Politics, and War  1 Introduction to Part 3  2 A Wartime Discourse  3 A Wartime Mentality 7 A Work of Fascist Labor  1 A Process of Construction  2 A Public Ceremony  3 A Village and a Palace 8 The War and the Indigenous Villages  1 Wartime Constructions  2 In the Shadow of War  3 Empire, Race, and War 9 Architecture During Wartime  1 A Space of Confinement  2 A Site of Conflict  Conclusion  Post(war) Script  Bibliography  Index

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Book SynopsisLand Air Sea: Architecture and Environment in the Early Modern Era positions the long Renaissance and eighteenth century as being vital for understanding how many of the concerns present in contemporary debates on climate change and sustainability originated in earlier centuries. Traversing three physical and intellectual domains, Land Air Sea consists of case studies examining how questions of environmentalism were formulated in early modern architecture and the built environment. Addressing emergent technologies, indigenous cultural beliefs, natural philosophy, and political statecraft, this book aims to recast our modernist conceptions of what buildings are by uncovering early modern epistemologies that redefined human impact on the habitable world.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Figures Notes on the Editors Notes on Contributors Introduction: Climatic Effects—Environmental Genealogies before Contemporary Crisis  Jennifer Ferng and Lauren Jacobi Part 1: Land 1 Land, War, and Castles: The Management of Landed Wealth  Katie Jakobiec 2 The Paradoxical Colosseum: A Mesocosm for Early Modern Rome  Kristi Cheramie and Robert John Clines 3 Flood Mitigation, Territory, and Time: Girolamo di Pace da Prato in Early Ducal Florence  Caroline E. Murphy Part 2: Air 4 Sleeping under the Hazardous Dome of the Sky An Intertextual Study of Representation of Corporeality in Seventeenth Century Architecture and Poetry of Safavid Isfahan  Mahroo Moosavi 5 Forced Air: Artificial Power and Environmental Control in Eighteenth-Century Britain  Aleksandr Bierig 6 Cosmogenic Histories: Aboriginal Observations on Catastrophe and Climate  Jennifer Ferng Part 3: Sea 7 Left on Shore: Iron and Fish in the North Atlantic  Christy Anderson 8 Sea Levelling: Britain’s Early Modern Port Infrastructure as Environmental Context  William M. Taylor Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn early modern times scholars and architects investigated age-old buildings in order to look for useful sources of inspiration. They too, occasionally misinterpreted younger buildings as proofs of majestic Roman or other ancient glory, such as the buildings of the Carolingian, Ottonian and Stauffer emperors. But even if the correct age of a certain building was known, buildings from c. 800–1200 were sometimes regarded as ‘Antique’ architecture, since the concept of ‘Antiquity’ was far more stretched than our modern periodisation allows. This was a Europe-wide phenomenon. The results are rather diverse in style, but they all share an intellectual and artistic strategy: a conscious revival of an ‘ancient’ architecture — whatever the date and origin of these models. Contributors: Barbara Arciszewska, Lex Bosman, Ian Campbell, Eliana Carrara, Bianca de Divitiis, Krista De Jonge, Emanuela Ferretti, Emanuela Garofalo, Stefaan Grieten, Hubertus Günther, Stephan Hoppe, Sanne Maekelberg, Kristoffer Neville, Marco Rosario Nobile, Konrad Ottenheym, Stefano Piazza, and Richard Schofield.Table of ContentsPreface  Michael Kwakkelstein List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Romanesque Renaissance – Introduction  Konrad Ottenheym Part 1: Romanesque Architecture and the Venerable Past of the Church and the Realm 1 Il ruolo della memoria normanna nella cultura architettonica siciliana della prima età moderna  Stefano Piazza 2 Tra mito e modello. Le cattedrali normanne nell’architettura Religiosa del Cinquecento in Italia meridionale  Emanuela Garofalo 3 Le cupole in pietra a vista nel primo Cinquecento in Sicilia  Marco Rosario Nobile 4 Memory of the Romanesque in Renaissance Southern Italy: From Paper to Stone  Bianca de Divitiis 5 The Scottish Romanesque Revival Revisited (Again)  Ian Campbell 6 Polish Architecture ‘more vetusto … murata’: References to Romanesque Buildings in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth before 1600  Barbara Arciszewska 7 Romanesque Reconstructions: The Revival of Liège in the Early Sixteenth Century  Stefaan Grieten and Krista De Jonge 8 Matters of Representation: On the Revival of the Early Mediaeval Keep in Brabant during the Early Modern Period  Krista De Jonge and Sanne Maekelberg 9 A Deconstruction of San Michele in Isola in Venice  Richard Schofield Part 2: Romanesque Architecture as Imaginary Antiquity 10 Il Battistero di Firenze nella storiografia medicea tra Cosimo I e Francesco I  Eliana Carrara and Emanuela Ferretti 11 Byzantine Cupolas and the Myth of the ‘Ancient Origins’ of Venice  Hubertus Günther 12 Architecture and Early Humanism at German Princely Courts: Lower Bavaria, Salzburg and Passau and the Romanesque Renaissance (c. 1480–1500)  Stephan Hoppe 13 The ‘Pagan Chapel’: St Nicolas’ Chapel at Nijmegen and Other Romanesque Rotundas Regarded as Ancient Temples  Konrad Ottenheym 14 Roman or Romanesque? Confusion about the Putative Temple of Apollo in Maastricht  Lex Bosman 15 Text and Form: The Beginnings of Architectural History and Architectural Aesthetics in the Far North  Kristoffer Neville Index

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Book SynopsisMudejarismo and Moorish Revival in Europe examines key aspects related to the reception of Ibero-Islamic architecture in medieval Iberia and 19th-century Europe. It challenges prevalent readings of architecture and interiors whose creation was the result of cultural encounters. As Mudéjar and neo-Moorish architecture are closely connected to the Islamic world, concepts of identity, nationalism, religious and ethnic belonging, as well as Orientalism and Islamoscepticism significantly shaped the way in which they have been perceived over time. This volume offers art historical and socio-cultural analysis of selected case studies from Spain to Russia and opens the door to a better understanding of interconnected cultural and artistic phenomena. Contributors are (in order of appearance) Francine Giese, Ariane Varela Braga, Michael A. Conrad, Katrin Kaufmann, Sarah Keller, Elena Paulino Montero, Luis Araus Ballesteros, Ekaterina Savinova, Christian Schweizer, Alejandro Jiménez Hernández and Laura Álvarez Acosta.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Abbreviations List of Figures Notes on Contributors Introduction: Towards a Comprehensive Understanding of Interconnected Realities   Francine Giese PART 1 Between Fascination and Conflict 1 Where Does Mudéjar Architecture Belong?   Francine Giese 2 When Warriors Become Teachers  Alfonso x’s Cultural Endeavors and the Crusade Ideology   Michael A. Conrad 3 “Ennobling Muslims and Jews”? The Instrumentalization of Mudéjar under the House of Trastámara 1369–1474   Michael A. Conrad 4 Reassessing the Moorish Revival in 19th- Century Europe   Francine Giese PART 2 Agents and Networks 5 “Oh, You Seeker of Knowledge! This is Its Gate Opened Wide...” The Transcultural Networks of Patrons, Artists, Scholars, Writers and Diplomats Between Medieval Iberia and North Africa in the 14th Century   Michael A. Conrad 6 Beyond Kings and Sultans  Vertical Diffusion and the Patrons of Urban Palaces in 14th-Century Toledo   Michael A. Conrad 7 Spanish Intellectuals of the 19th Century and Their Role for Knowledge Exchange Across Europe   Christian M. Schweizer 8 Mentors, Patrons and Social Networks  The Trajectories of Architects in a Globalized Century   Francine Giese 9 Il Gusto Moresco  Amateurs and Artists in Florence and Rome during the Second Half of the 19th Century   Ariane Varela Braga PART 3 Artisans and Architects as Protagonists of Transcultural Exchange and Artistic Transfer 10 An Interconnected World  Mudéjar Artisans and the Aristocracy in 15th-Century Castile   Luis Araus Ballesteros 11 Reproducing the Alhambra  Monument Conservators and Artisans in Granada   Francine Giese and Alejandro Jiménez Hernández 12 Learning from Casts and Models  Schools and Academies in 19th-Century Europe and the Specific Case of the Alhambra Collection in St. Petersburg   Katrin Kaufmann, Ekaterina Savinova and Ariane Varela Braga PART 4 Artistic Translations between Imagination, Politics and Ideology 13 The Limits of Otherness  Decoding the Entangled Heritage of Medieval Iberia   Francine Giese and Sarah Keller 14 Political Ruptures and Artistic Continuities  Pedro I, Enrique II and the First Trastámara Architecture in Context   Elena Paulino Montero 15 Oriental Carpets a nd Gothic Windows  Stained Glass in Neo-Moorish Architecture   Sarah Keller 16 The Alhambra as a Historicist Matrix for Museum Displays   Francine Giese and Ariane Varela Braga 17 Stylistic Eclecticism and Its Oriental Languages Alhambrismo in St. Petersburg   Katrin Kaufmann PART 5 Transmitting Islamic Aesthetics Across Centuries 1 Architectural Transformation 18 The Fortune of the Court of the Lions and the Court of the Dolls  Artistic Translations and Processes of Decontextualization   Francine Giese and Ariane Varela Braga 19 Domes Reinvented  Changing Meanings and Artistic Translations of Ibero-Islamic Rib and Muqarnas Vaults   Francine Giese 20 The Hybridization of Sebka Ornament   Francine Giese and Ariane Varela Braga 2 Transmateriality 21 Revisiting the Alhambra  Transmediality and Transmateriality in 19th-Century Italy   Ariane Varela Braga 22 Neo-Moorish Ceilings  On the Models and Materiality of Russian Alhambrismo   Katrin Kaufmann 23 Illuminating Transennae – A Technical Reinterpretation   Sarah Keller PART 6 Epilogue 24 An Endangered Heritage  Mudéjar and Neo-Moorish Architecture in 20th-Century Europe   Francine Giese and Laura Álvarez Acosta Appendix 1 Catalogue of 19th-Century Alhambra Casts and Models at the Scientific-Research Museum of the Russian Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg   Ekaterina Savinova Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn Central Asia, Muslim shrines have served as community centers for centuries, particularly the large urban shrines that seem, in many cases, to have served as the inspiration as well for a city’s architectural development. In Four Central Asian Shrines: A Socio-Political History of Architecture R. D. McChesney documents the histories of four such long-standing shrines—Gur-i Mir at Samarqand, Khwajah Abu Nasr Parsa Mazar at Balkh, the Noble Rawzah at Mazar-i Sharif, and the Khirqat al-Nabi at Qandahar. In all four cases the creation and evolution of the architecture of these shrines is traced through narratives about their social and political histories and in the past century and a half, through the photographic record.

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Book Synopsis(The open access version of this book has been published with the support of the Swiss National Science Foundation.) The book proposes a reassessment of royal portraiture and its function in the Middle Ages via a comparative analysis of works from different areas of the Mediterranean world, where images are seen as only one outcome of wider and multifarious strategies for the public mise-en-scène of the rulers’ bodies. Its emphasis is on the ways in which medieval monarchs in different areas of the Mediterranean constructed their outward appearance and communicated it by means of a variety of rituals, object-types, and media. Contributors are Michele Bacci, Nicolas Bock, Gerardo Boto Varela, Branislav Cvetković, Sofia Fernández Pozzo, Gohar Grigoryan Savary, Elodie Leschot, Vinni Lucherini, Ioanna Rapti, Juan Carlos Ruiz Souza, Marta Serrano-Coll, Lucinia Speciale, Manuela Studer-Karlen, Mirko Vagnoni, and Edda Vardanyan.

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Book SynopsisThis book examines neglected architectural decoration from the late antique city of the East Mediterranean. It addresses the omission in scholarship of discussion about the embellishment of non-monumental secular buildings (public porticoes, small public baths, shops/workshops, and non-elite houses). The finishing of these structures has been overlooked at the expense of more lofty buildings and remains one of the least known aspects of the late antique city. The author surveys the archaeological evidence for decoration in the region, with the maritime sites of Ostia and Ephesus selected as case studies. Drawing upon archaeological, written, and visual sources, it attempts to reconstruct how such buildings appeared to late antique viewers and investigates why they were decorated as they were.

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Book SynopsisThis volume engages with notions of lateness and modernity in medieval architecture, broadly conceived geographically, temporally, methodologically, and theoretically. It aims to (re)situate secular and religious buildings from the 14th through the 16th centuries that are indebted to medieval building practices and designs, within the more established narratives of art and architectural history.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of illustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction  Alice Isabella Sullivan and Kyle G. Sweeney Relativizing the Lateness of Late Gothic Architecture  Robert Bork Part 1: Space and Reception: Western Perspectives 1 Late Gothic Medieval Imaginations in Jean Fouquet’s Grandes chroniques de France  Maile S. Hutterer 2 Reading Late Gothic Architecture  The Balustrades at Notre-Dame, Caudebec-en-Caux  Abby McGehee 3 The Plague, the Parish, and the Perpendicular Style  Theories of Change in Late Medieval English Architecture from John Aubrey to John Harvey  Zachary Stewart 4 “Toutefois moderne, sans tenir de l’antique”  Critical Views on Gothic and Renaissance Interaction in Early Modern French Architecture between the 16th and 18th Centuries  Flaminia Bardati Part 2: Experimentation and Innovation in Central Europe 5 The Development of Western and Central European Gothic Architecture around 1300 and Its Modern Historiography  Jakub Adamski 6 Did Jan Dlugosz Read Vitruvius?  On the Reception of the Myth about the Natural Origins of Architecture in Central Europe in the Late Middle Ages  Marek Walczak 7 Entwined Meanings and Organic Form at the Prague Cathedral Royal Oratory  Alice Klima 8 Conflicting Views  Designing the South Transept of Prague Cathedral  Jana Gajdošová Part 3: Global Gothics on the Margins of Europe and Beyond 9 The Currency of the Gothic in the Carpathian Mountain Regions  Alice Isabella Sullivan 10 When Venus Met Godfrey  The Evocation of Gothic Antiquity in the Architecture of Venetian Cyprus  Michalis Olympios 11 Memory, Modernity, and Anachronism at the Convent of San Juan de los Reyes, Toledo  Costanza Beltrami 12 Colonial Gothic and the Negotiation of Worlds in 16th-Century Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic  Paul Niell Afterword: Unruly Gothic  Jacqueline E. Jung Select Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisRafał Quirini-Popławski offers here the first panorama of the artistic phenomena of the Genoese outposts scattered around the Black Sea, an area whose cultural history is little known. The artistic creativity of the region emerges as extraordinarily rich and colorful, with a variety of heterogeneous, hybrid and intermingled characteristics. The book questions the extent to which the descriptor "Genoese" can be applied to the settlements’ artistic production; Quirini-Popławski demonstrates that, despite entrenched views of these colonies as centres of Italian and Latin culture, it was in fact Greek and Armenian art that was of greater importance.Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Introduction  1 The Aims of the Book  2 State of Research – Literature Review  3 Sources and Approaches 1 Historical Introduction  1 History of the Genoese Colonies in the Context of the History of the Black Sea Basin in the Late Medieval Period  2 The Legal and Organisational Frameworks of Construction Activity and Crafts in the Colonies. Origin of Builders and Craftsmen 2 The Topography of the Colonies and Secular Buildings  1 The Topography of the Colonies  2 Secular Buildings 3 Sacral Buildings  1 Introduction  2 The Churches of Caffa  3 The Churches of Pera  4 Churches and Other Religious Buildings in Soldaia, Cembalo, Trebizond, Samastri, and Vosporo 4 Bas-Relief Decoration  1 Review of Monuments  2 Analysis 5 Painting and Applied Arts  1 Monumental Painting  2 Panel and Miniature Painting  3 Applied Arts  4 Numismatics and Sphragistics Conclusion Catalogue Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe small town of Vṛndāvana is today one of the most vibrant places of pilgrimage in northern India. Throngs of pilgrims travel there each year to honour the sacred land of Kṛṣṇa’s youth and to visit many of its temples. The Building of Vṛndāvana explores the complex history of this town’s early modern origins. Bringing together scholars from various disciplines to examine history, architecture, art, ritual, theology, and literature in this pivotal period, the book examines how these various disciplines were used to create, develop, and map Vṛndāvana as the most prominent place of pilgrimage for devotees of Kṛṣṇa. Contributors are: Guy L. Beck, Måns Broo, David Buchta, John Stratton Hawley, Barbara A. Holdrege, Rembert Lutjeharms, Cynthia D. Packert, and Heidi Pauwels.Trade Review"This rich, well-crafted collaborative volume on one of South Asia’s most important pilgrimage sites, the temple town dedicated to Kṛṣṇa at Vṛndāvana draws upon a range of literary, historical, musical and artistic evidence to examine the communities, conceptions and construction of the region of Vraja in the 16th and early 17th centuries. Original, timely and compelling, this book will be essential reading for students and scholars of Hindu studies, Sanskrit and Hindi literature, historians of early modern South Asia, including its art and music, and anyone interested in the centrality of place, space and pilgrimage to the religious imagination." - Dr. Crispin Branfoot (Reader in the history of South Asian art and archaeology. SOAS, University of London) "This masterful book immerses the reader in the landscapes, temples, texts, and artistic traditions of early modern Vṛndāvana. A variety of sources and methods are blended seamlessly to paint a picture of this dynamic town, as it grows from a small community to a major center of Kṛṣṇa worship. The introduction provides the most engaging overview of Vṛndāvana's history and theology that I have read. This book is a joy to read, and one that you will return to over and over again." - Prof. Ravi M. Gupta (Charles Redd Chair of Religious Studies, Utah State University)Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction  Rembert Lutjeharms and Kiyokazu Okita Part 1: Builders 1 A Sixteenth-Century Testimony on Vṛndāvana’s First-Generation Pioneers  Heidi Pauwels 2 The Hari-bhakti-vilāsa as a Specimen of Early Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇavism in Vṛndāvana  Måns Broo Part 2: Building 3 The Gauḍīya Reimagining of Vraja as a Bimodal Domain  Pilgrimage Place and Transcendent Space  Barbara A. Holdrege 4 Building Vṛndāvana as a Locus of Rasa  The Stotras of Rūpa Gosvāmī  David Buchta 5 Building the Spiritual Vṛndāvana  Music and the Rāsa Dance at the Centre of Kṛṣṇa Devotion  Guy L. Beck Part 3: Buildings 6 A Temple of Stone and a Temple of Love  Govindadeva in the Religious Imagination of Early Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇavas  Rembert Lutjeharms 7 Kings of the Mountains  Govardhana-līlā and Kachavāhā Patronage at the Govindadeva Temple in Vṛndāvana  Cynthia Packert 8 The Ideal Real Vṛndāvana of Jayasiṃha’s Dining Room  John Stratton Hawley Index

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