History of art Books
Brill Art in Dispute: Catholic Debates at the Time of Trent. With an Edition and Translation of Key Documents
Book SynopsisThe Catholic Church answered Reformation-era contestations of the cult of images in a famous decree of the Council of Trent (1563). Art in Dispute revisits this response by focusing on its antecedents rather than its consequences. The mid-sixteenth century saw, besides new scholarship on Byzantine doctrines, heated debates about neo-scholastic interpretations. Disagreement, suppressed at Trent but re-emerging soon afterwards, centered on the question whether religious images were solely signs referring to holy subjects or also sacred objects in their own right. It was a debate with major implications for art theory and devotional practice. The volume contains editions and translations of texts by Martín Pérez de Ayala, Matthieu Ory, Jean Calvin, Ambrogio Catarino Politi, and Iacopo Nacchianti, along with a previously unknown draft of the Tridentine decree.Trade Review“Wietse de Boer’s superb book delves into the intense mid-sixteenth-century debates among Catholic scholars, about sacred images. […] I strongly recommend this book to anyone interested in the early modern image debate. De Boer enriches our understanding of the heterogeneous opinions and intense discussions among leading Catholic theologians before, during, and after 1563.” Jeffrey Chipps Smith, University of Texas, Austin. In: Church History, Vol. 91, No. 4 (December 2022), pp. 925–926. “De Boer setzt einen neuen Standard […] und leistet einen zentralen Beitrag zur aktuellen Reflexion über den medialen und ontologischen Status von Bildern.” Theresa Gatarski, Bayerisches Nationalmuseum. In: Kunstchronik, Vol. 75, No. 12 (December 2022), pp. 609–614. "essential contribution" Ralph Dekoninck, Université catholique de Louvain. In: Francia-Recensio, 2023/2.Table of ContentsPreface List of Illustrations Abbreviations Part 1: History 1 Premises: The Sacred Image in an Age of Religious Crisis 1 The Thomist View and Its Critics 2 Early Catholic Responses to Reformation Critiques 3 The Image Question in the Mid-Sixteenth Century 4 Marcello Cervini and the Image Debate 2 Disputes: The Sacred Image and the Counter-Reformation 1 The Traditions of Martín Pérez de Ayala 2 In Defense of Thomism: Matthieu Ory 3 Ory and Calvin 4 How to Honor Images: Ambrogio Catarino 5 Nacchianti’s Road to Orthodoxy 3 Reverberations: St. Germain, Trent, and Beyond 1 On the Sidelines of Trent: Eliseo and Ninguarda 2 Diego Laínez between St. Germain and Trent 3 Trent: The French Connection 4 A Previously Unknown Draft 5 A Question about Honor 6 Beyond Trent: Paleotti to Bellarmino 7 Conclusion Part 2: Documents Note on Editions and Translations I Martín Pérez de Ayala Corollarium de imaginibus sanctorum / Corollary Concerning the Images of Saints II Matthieu Ory De cultu imaginum / The Worship of Images III Matthieu Ory – Jean Calvin Opposing Views on Sacred Images IV Ambrogio Catarino Politi Disputatio de cultu et adoratione imaginum / Disputation on the Worship and Adoration of Images V Iacopo Nacchianti Digressio de imaginum usu ac cultu in ecclesia dei / Digression about the Use and Worship of Images in God’s Church VI Council of Trent Draft of the Decree on Saints, Relics, and Images / Draft of the Decree on Saints, Relics, and Images Appendices Selected Bibliography Index
£143.20
Brill Sculpture in Print, 1480–1600
Book SynopsisSculpture in Print, 1480–1600 is the first in-depth study dedicated to the intriguing history of the translation of statues and reliefs into print. The multitude of engravings, woodcuts and etchings show a highly creative handling of the ‘original’ antique or contemporary work of art. The essays in this volume reflect these various approaches to and challenges of translating sculpture in print. They analyze foremost the beginnings of the phenomenon in Italian and Northern Renaissance prints and they highlight by means of case studies amongst many other topics the interrelated terminology between sculpture and print, lost models in print, the inventive handling of fragments, as well as the transformation of statues into narrative contexts.Trade Review“This book provides a wonderful introduction to the topic in all its breadth.” Joris van Gastel, University of Zurich. In: Print Quarterly, Vol. 39, No. 4 (December 2022), pp. 456–460.Table of ContentsList of Figures Notes on Contributors “Quanto in virtù d’una ingegnosa mano / la fermezza de’marmi ai fogli cede”: The Art of Translating Sculpture into Print. An Introduction Anne Bloemacher, Mandy Richter and Marzia Faietti Part 1: Antique Sculpture 1 Aes Incidimus: Early Modern Engraving as Sculpture Madeleine C. Viljoen 2 Transferring Ancient Sculptures into Prints. Marcantonio Raimondi’s “Quos Ego”: Its Prototypes and Afterimages Gudrun Knaus 3 Marcantonio Raimondi and Fragmentary Ancient Statues: Hypotheses on His Working Method and Antiquarian Practice Mandy Richter 4 Cherubino Alberti’s Engravings after Polidoro da Caravaggio: from Chiaroscuro to Sculpture Maria Gabriella Matarazzo 5 From Sculpture to Print to Sculpture. Parmigianino, Caraglio and the Mystery of the Barberini Faun Marzia Faietti Part 2: Contemporary Sculpture 6 The Reproduction of Sculpture as Sculpture in 16th Century Prints: Baccio Bandinelli, Giambologna, and Adriaen de Vries Anne Bloemacher 7 The Young Baccio Bandinelli and the Role of Prints at the Beginning of a Sculptor’s Career Angelika Marinovic 8 Considering the Viewer in Prints of Michelangelo’s Risen Christ: The Cases of Beatrizet and Matham Bernadine Barnes 9 On the Genesis of Antonio Tempesta’s Print of Henry ii on Horseback Claudia Echinger-Maurach 10 Sculpture’s Narrativity in Northern Renaissance Prints Franciszek Skibiński 11 Models for Sculptures in Print: Michelangelo’s Samson and Two Philistines in Lucas Kilian’s Engravings Claudia Echinger-Maurach Index
£152.00
Brill Jacob Campo Weyerman and his Collection of Artists’ Biographies: An Art Critic at Work
Book SynopsisWeyerman’s collection of artists’ biographies (1729) is exceptional for three reasons. Firstly, he includes a great number of painters not mentioned elsewhere. Secondly, he does not limit his selection to good artists only; he also discusses failed painters and their abortive careers. Thirdly, he writes as an art critic who does not hesitate to pass judgments, sometimes severe, on his chosen subjects. In the process, Weyerman provides much information on the social and economic circumstances of art production. He found that a bohemian lifestyle was pernicious to a painter’s career, and argued that artists should live and think as merchants. In addition to analyzing Weyerman’s art critical terminology and his ideas on art theory, De Vries includes translations of two full chapters along with the original Dutch.Trade Review“Jacob Campo Weyerman and his Collection of Artists' Biographies is a great book. Not cheap, but the first 141 pages, Part One, will serve as a new benchmark in Weyerman Studies.” Peter Altena, in JCW 43.2 (Mededelingen van de Stichting Jacob Campo Weyerman) "The fact remains that, whatever [Weyerman's] motivations, he demonstrated (and de Vries amply acknowledges it) that he had an art critic training, that he mastered a technical vocabulary that deserves to be studied precisely because it is specific to a reality and an era and, in short, that he was a man fully immersed in his time. Probably these findings (and the many references to the situation of the art market in the Netherlands [...] would today satisfy more those who deal with social history of art, rather than history of art in the strict sense; however, they allow us to reconsider the importance of a work that, in Schlosser's time, seemed inevitably destined for oblivion and ignominy." Giovanni Mazzaferro, in: Letteratura artistica: Cross-cultural Studies in Art History Sources, August 2020Table of ContentsPreface List of Illustrations Introduction 1 Contents of the Levens-Beschryvingen 2 Weyerman’s Opinions 1 Painted and Written Genre Scenes 1 Urban Genre 2 Low Life Genre 3 Italianate Scenes 4 Large-Scale Genre Paintings 5 Fine Painting 2 Failed Artists 1 Pretentions of Nobility 2 Social Skills 3 Marriage 4 Painterly Studios 5 Intemperance 6 Mental Problems 7 Art Dealers and Their Victims 8 Copying 9 Antwerp’s Vrijdagsmarkt 10 Street Vendors and Itinerant Painters 3 Portraiture 1 London 2 The ‘Byway’ of Art 3 The Sitter’s Identity 4 Good Manners, Flattery and Beauty 5 The Netherlands 6 Other Group Portraits 4 Art in the Public Space 1 Altarpieces 2 Stained Glass Windows 3 Wall Tapestries 4 Princely Commissions 5 Government Commissions 6 Municipal Commissions 7 Festive Entries 8 Private Commissions 5 Art Criticism 1 Choice of Subject Matter 2 Composition 3 Human Figures 4 Pictorial Space 5 Reddering 6 Colouring 7 Handling of the Brush 8 Welstand 6 Pliny, Durand and Weyerman 1 Weyerman’s Ideas in Perspective 2 Beauty 3 Grace 4 Art and Nature 5 The Purpose of Art 6 Classification 7 Conclusion Epilogue Appendix 1: Biography of Willem de Fouchier Appendix 2: Disquisition on the Art of the Ancients Bibliography Index
£156.00
Brill Hua Yan (1682-1756) and the Making of the Artist in Early Modern China
Book SynopsisHua Yan (1682-1756) and the Making of the Artist in Early Modern China explores the relationships between the artist, local society, and artistic practice during the Qing dynasty (1644–1911). Arranged as an investigation of the artist Hua Yan’s work at a pivotal moment in eighteenth-century society, this book considers his paintings and poetry in early eighteenth-century Hangzhou, mid-eighteenth-century Yangzhou, and finally their nineteenth-century afterlife in Shanghai. By investigating Hua Yan’s struggle as a marginalized artist—both at his time and in the canon of Chinese art—this study draws attention to the implications of seeing and being seen as an artist in early modern China.Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments List of Figures Introduction 1 Seeing Hua Yan 2 Painting in Early Modern China 1 The Mountain Man of Xinluo 1 Portraiture and Persona 2 The Zhe School Poets 3 The Sojourning Artist 2 Lyricism in Words and Images 1 On Transformation 2 Artist and Patron 3 The Human Experience 4 Singing of the Object 3 Painting the Garden from Life 1 The Art of Social Distinction 2 Hua Yan’s Circle, 1740s and 1750s 3 Garden and Society 4 Picturing People, Past and Present 1 Literary Gatherings as Aspirational Subjects 2 Gender and the Garden 3 Borders, Travel, and Empire 3 Seasons of Life 5 The Xinluo School 1 The Zhejiang Legacy in Yangzhou 2 Defining the Xinluo School 3 The Shanghai School Epilogue: Lives of Jiangnan Artists, 1700–1900 Bibliography Index
£115.20
Brill Jewish Art in Late Antiquity: The State of Research in Ancient Jewish Art
Book SynopsisAntique Jewish art visualized the idea that the essence of God is beyond the world of forms. In the Bible, the Israelites were commanded to build sanctuaries without cult statues. Following the destruction of the Second Temple, Jews turned to literary and visual aids to fill the void. In this accessible survey, Shulamit Laderman traces the visualizations of the Tabernacle implements, including the seven-branch menorah, the Torah ark, the shofar, the four species, and other motifs associated with the Hebrew Bible and the Jewish calendar. These motifs evolved into iconographic symbols visualized in a range of media, including coins, funerary art, and synagogue decorations in both Israel and the Diaspora. Particular attention is given to important discoveries such as the frescoes of the third-century CE synagogue in Dura-Europos, mosaic floors in synagogues in Galilee, and architectural and carved motifs that decorated burial places.Table of ContentsContents Jewish Art in Late Antiquity State of the Research in Ancient Jewish Art Abstract Keywords 1 Introduction 2 The Cosmological Significance of the Tabernacle 3 Coins and Their Symbolic Language 4 Burial Architecture and Ornamentation 5 Ancient Synagogues in Palestine 6 Ancient Synagogues in the Diaspora 7 Synagogue Art – Decorating the Sacred Realm 8 Architectural Elements and Furnishings in the Ancient Synagogues 9 The Seven-Branch Menorah 10 Conclusions Bibliography
£63.84
Brill ‘Intoxicating Shanghai’ – An Urban Montage: Art and Literature in Pictorial Magazines during Shanghai’s Jazz Age
Book SynopsisIn Intoxicating Shanghai, Paul Bevan explores the work of a number of Chinese modernist figures in the fields of literature and the visual arts, with an emphasis on the literary group the New-sensationists and its equivalents in the Shanghai art world, examining the work of these figures as it appeared in pictorial magazines. It undertakes a detailed examination into the significance of the pictorial magazine as a medium for the dissemination of literature and art during the 1930s. The research locates the work of these artists and writers within the context of wider literary and art production in Shanghai, focusing on art, literature, cinema, music, and dance hall culture, with a specific emphasis on 1934 – ‘The Year of the Magazine’.Trade Review"Bevan structures his book around the years 1934 and 1935 to highlight a Chinese art and literature scene that is often absent from English-language books that focus on a largely expat Shanghai based in and around the foreign presence [...] This brief stretch of the 1930s brings to mind the short bursts of world-class art and literature in post-2000 China. They sprouted up almost as quickly as they now seem to be disappearing. These examples can give us hope that literature and art, like hope, spring eternal." - Susan Blumberg-Kason, in: Asian Review of Books, 25 July 2020Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Note on the Illustrations Note on Copyright Illustrations Notes on Romanization and References Abbreviations Part 1: Introductory Chapters So This Is Shanghai! 1 Literature and the Pictorial Magazine 2 Art and the Pictorial Magazine Story One: ‘Huilixian’ 回力線 Hai Alai Scenes by Hei Ying Part 2: Lu Xun: Art Aficionado and Critic 3 Politics, Art and the Pictorial Magazine Story Two: ‘Luotuo Nicaizhuyizhe yu nüren’ 駱駝尼采主義者與女人 (Camel, Nietzscheanist and Woman) by Mu Shiying 4 Two Critiques by Lu Xun Story Three: ‘Molü shan de xiaojie’ 墨綠衫的小姐 (The Lady in the Inky-Green Cheongsam) by Mu Shiying Part 3: The Rise and Rise of the Pictorial Magazine 5 ‘The Year of the Magazine’, 1934 6 Manhua Artists and the Pictorial Magazine – Guo Jianying, Huang Miaozi and Ye Qianyu Story Four: ‘Sharen weisui’ 殺人未遂 (Attempted Murder) by Liu Na’ou Part 4: The Shanghai Jazz Age 7 Cinema, Literature and the Pictorial Magazine, 1934 8 Jazz and Popular Music in Shanghai’s Dancehalls Such is Shanghai! Appendix: Notes on Source Material Bibliography Index
£191.20
Brill Picturing Death 1200–1600
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
£152.00
Brill Tracing the Visual Language of Raphael’s Circle to 1527
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
£121.60
Brill Andrea del Sarto: Splendor and Renewal in the Renaissance Altarpiece
Book SynopsisOver the course of his career, Andrea del Sarto (1486–1530) created altarpieces rich in theological complexity, elegant in formal execution, and dazzlingly brilliant in chromatic impact. This book investigates the spiritual dimensions of those works, focusing on six highly-significant panels. According to Steven J. Cody, the beauty and splendor of Andrea’s paintings speak to a profound engagement with Christian theories of spiritual renewal—an engagement that only intensified as Andrea matured into one of the most admired artists of his time. From this perspective, Andrea del Sarto — Splendor and Renewal in the Renaissance Altarpiece not only shines new light on a painter who has long deserved more scholarly attention; it also offers up fresh insights regarding the Renaissance altarpiece itself.Trade Review“Steven Cody’s beautifully illustrated work on Andrea del Sarto brings an original and refreshing point of view on the artist. […] Worthy of notice are Cody’s artful descriptions of Andrea del Sarto’s works: these reveal a keen eye, sensitive to the most minute variation of color.” Louise Arizzoli, University of Mississippi. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 77, No. 2 (Summer 2023), pp. 660–661.Table of Contents Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Introduction 1 Painted Mysteries 2 The Painter without Errors 3 Andrea and the Monographic Tradition 4 Art, Renewal, and Reform 1 Sight and Touch in the Noli me tangere 1 Touching Christ 2 Flesh and Facture 3 Figures and Figurae 2 The Sweetness of the San Gallo Annunciation 1 Conceiving Christ 2 “A Sweet Word, but a Sweeter Act” 3 Gloria 3 Light from the Light of the Madonna of the Harpies 1 The Pursuit of Brilliance 2 “Like a Divine Fire” 3 “The Supreme Illumination of our Mind” 4 Among the Visionaries 4 Sight and Sighs in the Disputation on the Trinity 1 Paradigms of Renewal 2 Among the Visionaries, Again 3 Attending to Color 5 The Splendor of the Luco Pietà 1 Christ’s Death in Living Memory 2 The Bread of Life in Living Color 3 The Manner of Christ’s Death 6 Light from the Shadows in the Gambassi Altarpiece 1 Spiritual Transactions 2 Embodied Prayer 3 To “Rest in the Shadow of the Almighty” Epilogue Bibliography Index
£136.00
Brill A Companion to Medieval Ethiopia and Eritrea
Book SynopsisChoice Outstanding Academic Title 2020 Winner of the 2021 African Studies Review Prize for the Best Africa-focused Anthology or Edited Collection A Companion to Medieval Ethiopia and Eritrea introduces readers to current research on major topics in the history and cultures of the Ethiopian-Eritrean region from the seventh century to the mid-sixteenth, with insights into foundational late-antique developments where appropriate. Multiconfessional in scope, it includes in its purview both the Christian kingdom and the Islamic and local-religious societies that have attracted increasing attention in recent decades, tracing their internal features, interrelations, and imbrication in broader networks stretching from Egypt and Yemen to Europe and India. Utilizing diverse source types and methodologies, its fifteen essays offer an up-to-date overview of the subject for students and nonspecialists, and are rich in material for researchers. Contributors are Alessandro Bausi, Claire Bosc-Tiessé, Antonella Brita, Amélie Chekroun, Marie-Laure Derat, Deresse Ayenachew, François-Xavier Fauvelle, Emmanuel Fritsch, Alessandro Gori, Habtemichael Kidane, Margaux Herman, Bertrand Hirsch, Samantha Kelly, Gianfrancesco Lusini, Denis Nosnitsin, and Anaïs Wion. See inside the book.Trade Review"Here we are well served by Samantha Kelly's Companion to Medieval Ethiopia and Eritrea. Each chapter conveys a sense of discovery. As Kelly reminds us, we are dealing with a field marked by "the continual expansion of the available source base" due to the ongoing digitalization of Ethiopic manuscripts in Ethiopia itself and in libraries throughout the world. Yet perhaps the most exciting contribution of the Companion is a new view of Ethiopia itself. Christian Ethiopia has tended to be treated as an isolated mountain hideaway where time stood still; Edward Gibbon, at his most sonorous and most wrongheaded, wrote, "Encompassed on all sides by the enemies of their religion, the Aethiopians slept near a thousand years, forgetful of the world, by whom they were forgotten". The reverse was true. Medieval Ethiopia (which includes much of modern Eritrea) was a frontier society, penetrated in all directions by routes that led from the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean deep into Equatorial Africa. This reenvisioning of medieval Ethiopia is, perhaps, the most challenging aspect of the Companion. In the words of one contributor of Kelly's volume, "Let us hope that the image of an archaic, never evolving and isolated country is no longer acceptable". "The Glories of Aksum", by Peter Brown, in The New York Review of Books, October 2021, accessible here. Winner of the 2021 African Studies Review Prize for the Best Africa-focused Anthology or Edited Collection. The awarding committee made the following statement, accessible here: "The ASR Prize for the Best Africa-Focused Anthology or Edited Collection recognizes editors and contributors to an anthology of original scholarship, cohesive in structure and interdisciplinary in nature, that advances African studies in new theoretical and/or methodological directions. The award recognizes the editor(s) and also the contributors as a whole. In making its selection, the prize committee pays particular attention to significance, originality, and quality of writing, and the anthology’s contribution to advancing debates in African studies. [...] This stellar edited volume makes available recent scholarship on the history of Medieval Ethiopia and Eritrea. Comprehensive in its scope, the sixteen chapters by the international scholars Alessandro Bausi, Claire Bosc-Tiessé, Antonella Brita, Amélie Chekroun, Marie-Laure Derat, Deresse Ayenachew, François-Xavier Fauvelle, Emmanuel Fritsch, Alessandro Gori, Habtemichael Kidane, Margaux Herman, Bertrand Hirsch, Samantha Kelly, Gianfrancesco Lusini, Denis Nosnitsin, and Anaïs Wion bring to light various dimensions of the history and culture of this region. The chapters explore various dimensions of the history of the Ethiopian-Eritrean region from the seventh to the sixteenth century, including Christianity, Islam, and local religions, women, trade, literature, and visual culture. In addition to providing an insightful panorama of the religious and cultural contexts in the area, the diverse authors are very successful in articulating different textual and visual sources while employing several different methodological approaches. Innovative and based on extensive research, this is a unique edited volume that showcases the rich connections between the region of Ethiopia-Eritrea, the African continent, and the rest of the globe. This magisterial edited book is an important contribution to African Studies, which will be useful for scholars and students interested in the history of Africa, Ethiopia, and Eritrea." "Ce volume propose un remarquable état des lieux de la recherche sur l’histoire de l’Éthiopie médiévale, c’est-à-dire de la période allant de la fin du royaume d’Axoum (VIIe siècle) jusqu’à celui de Gondar (XVIIe siècle). Il couvre plus parti culièrement le temps des dynasties Zagwe (à partir de 1270) et salomonide, une période de relative stabilité, sans cesse renégociée, et de prospérité durant laquelle furent façonnés des traits du pays et de son Église. [...] Complété par 5 cartes et 25 illustrations la plupart en couleurs, dans le texte (surtout pour les manuscrits et les arts visuels), une impressionnante bibliographie (82 pages !) et un bon index (noms, thèmes), ce volume n’en constitue pas moins un remarquable instrument de travail." ISTINA LXV (2020)
£79.20
Brill Industrial Design and Artistic Expression: The Challenge of Legal Protection
Book SynopsisThe complex nature of industrial design, which combines functional and aesthetic elements, allows different modes of protection: cumulative, separate or partially overlapping regimes are applicable according to different legal systems. The legal framework is rapidly changing, especially in Europe where the principle of cumulation of a special sui generis regime for protecting industrial design with copyright rules has been established. In the last decade, national courts of some Member States conferred to the “cumulative regime” a peculiar meaning, other courts enforced design rights in line with the interpretation given by the Court of Justice of the EU. The copyright/design interface is presented here to a wider, non-specialist audience, taking as a starting point the notion of industrial design derived from design studies, on the border between art and science.Table of ContentsIndustrial Design and Artistic Expression. The Challenge of Legal Protection Barbara Pasa Abstract Keywords Introduction. What Is Design: a First Approximation from Different Perspectives Part 1: The Work Part 2: The Author Conclusion Acknowledgments
£71.44
Brill Quid est secretum?: Visual Representation of Secrets in Early Modern Europe, 1500–1700
Book SynopsisQuid est secretum? Visual Representation of Secrets in Early Modern Europe, 1500–1700 is the companion volume to Intersections 65.1, Quid est sacramentum? Visual Representation of Sacred Mysteries in Early Modern Europe, 1400–1700. Whereas the latter volume focused on sacramental mysteries, the current one examines a wider range of secret subjects. The book examines how secret knowledge was represented visually in ways that both revealed and concealed the true nature of that knowledge, giving and yet impeding access to it. In the early modern period, the discursive and symbolical sites for the representation of secrets were closely related to epistemic changes that transformed conceptions of the transmissibility of knowledge. Contributors: Monika Biel, Alicja Bielak, C. Jean Campbell, Tom Conley, Ralph Dekoninck, Peter G.F. Eversmann, Ingrid Falque, Agnès Guiderdoni, Koenraad Jonckheere, Suzanne Karr Schmidt, Stephanie Leitch, Carme López Calderón, Mark A. Meadow, Walter S. Melion, Eelco Nagelsmit, Lars Cyril Nørgaard, Alexandra Onuf, Bret L. Rothstein, Xavier Vert, Madeleine C. Viljoen, Mara R. Wade, Lee Palmer Wandel, and Caecilie Weissert.Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgements Notes on the Editors Notes on the Contributors List of Illustrations Introduction: What’s in a Secret? Ralph Dekoninck, Agnès Guiderdoni, and Walter S. Melion part 1: The Spiritual locus of Secret 1 In the Secrecy of the Cell: Late Medieval Carthusian Devotional Imagery and Meditative Practices in the Low Countries Ingrid Falque 2 Jesus, Mary, and Joseph as Artisans of the Heart and Soul in Manuscript MPM R 35 Vita S. Ioseph beatissimae Virginis sponsi of ca. 1600 Walter S. Melion 3 Symbols and (Un)concealed Marian Mysteries in the First Litany of Loreto Illustrated with Emblems: Peter Stoergler’s Asma Poeticum (Linz, 1636) Carme López Calderón 4 ‘Teach Me, Reveal the Secret to My Heart’: the Role of a Spiritual Guide in the Meditative Works of Marcin Hińcza Alicja Bielak part 2: Science and Secrecy 5 Of Grids and Divine Mystery: Gerard Mercator’s Revelation Lee Palmer Wandel 6 What Did They See?: Science and Religion in the Anatomical Theatres of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries Peter G.F. Eversmann part 3: The Secret in Matter 7 The Sienese Goldsmith and the Secrets of Florentine Disegno C. Jean Campbell 8 An Open and Shut Case: On the Dialectic of Secrecy and Access in the Early-Modern Kunstkammer Mark A. Meadow 9 Mysterious Noises: Orphic Strings, Rough Music, and the Sounds of Early Modern Ornament Prints Madeleine C. Viljoen 10 ‘Insettinghe’ and ‘yegelijcx conversatie’: Understanding of the Image on the Eve of Baroque Koenraad Jonckheere 11 Roger de Piles and the Secret of Grace Caecilie Weissert part 4: Secrecy and Sanctity: Negotiating Secular and Sacred Registers of the Secret 12 In Abscondito: Visuality and Testimony in Raphael’s Transfiguration Xavier Vert 13 Secrets of the Dark: Rembrandt’s Entombment (c. 1654) Alexandra Onuf 14 Poussin and Richeome: Mystery and Figurability Ralph Dekoninck 15 Portrait or Parable?: Pierre Mignard and the Mystery of Madame de Maintenon Eelco Nagelsmit & Lars Cyril Nørgaard part 5: Secrets of the Ars symbolica: Emblems and Enigmas 16 Secret est à louer: Secrets and Secrecy in French Baroque Cartography, 1580–1640 Tom Conley 17 Hidden in Plain Sight: Melchior Lorck’s Emblematized Adages Mara R. Wade 18 To Hide is to Reveal: the Paradox of Representing Secrets Agnès Guiderdoni part 6: Challenges of the Secret: Publicity, Performance, and Play 19 Getting to How-To: Chiromancy, Physiognomy, Metoscopy and Prints in Secrets’ Service Stephanie Leitch 20 The Answer Lies in the Eye of the Beholder: the Emblematic Ceiling Program in the Town Hall of Gdańsk Monika Biel 21 Convents, Condottieri, and Compulsive Gamblers: Hands-On Secrets of Lorenzo Spirito’s Libro Suzanne Karr Schmidt 22 Secrecy and the Understanding of Small Things in Early Modern Italy Bret L. Rothstein Index Nominum
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Brill Religion and Prison Art in Ming China (1368-1644): Creative Environment, Creative Subjects
Book SynopsisApproaching the prison as a creative environment and imprisoned officials as creative subjects in Ming China (1368-1644), Ying Zhang introduces important themes at the intersection of premodern Chinese religion, poetry, and visual and material culture. The Ming is known for its extraordinary cultural and economic accomplishments in the increasingly globalized early modern world. For scholars of Chinese religion and art, this era crystallizes the essential and enduring characteristics in these two spheres. Drawing on scholarship on Chinese philosophy, religion, aesthetics, poetry, music, and visual and material culture, Zhang illustrates how the prisoners understood their environment as creative and engaged it creatively. She then offers a literature survey on the characteristics of premodern Chinese religion and art that helps situate the questions of “creative environment” and “creative subject” within multiple fields of scholarship.Table of ContentsContents Religion and Prison Art in Ming China (1368–1644) Creative Environment, Creative Subjects Ying Zhang Abstract Keywords Cast of Characters Introduction Part 1 1 Creative Nature and the Calendar in Prison Poetry 2 The Self in Nature, Ritual, and Poetry Part 2 3 The Literati Art of Living in Confinement 4 The Art of Living: Nourishing Life, Transcending the Form Acknowledgments Bibliography
£135.28
Brill Magnificence in the Seventeenth Century: Performing Splendour in Catholic and Protestant Contexts
Book SynopsisThis volume explores the concept of magnificence as a social construction in seventeenth-century Europe. Although this period is often described as the ‘Age of Magnificence’, thus far no attempts have been made to investigate how the term and the concept of magnificence functioned. The authors focus on the way crucial ethical, religious, political, aesthetic, and cultural developments interacted with thought on magnificence in Catholic and Protestant contexts, analysing spectacular civic and courtly festivities and theatre, impressive displays of painting and sculpture in rich architectural settings, splendid gardens, exclusive etiquette, grand households, and learned treatises of moral philosophy. Contributors: Lindsay Alberts, Stijn Bussels, Jorge Fernández-Santos, Anne-Madeleine Goulet, Elizabeth den Hartog, Michèle-Caroline Heck, Miguel Hermoso Cuesta, José Eloy Hortal Muñoz, Félix Labrador Arroyo, Victoire Malenfer, Alessandro Metlica, Alessandra Mignatti, Anne-Françoise Morel, Matthias Roick, Kathrin Stocker, Klaas Tindemans, and Gijs Versteegen.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations Notes on the Editors Notes on the Contributors Introduction Gijs Versteegen and Stijn Bussels Part 1: Traditions of Thought on Magnificence 1 Early Modern Readings of Aristotle’s Theory of Magnificence in the Ethics Matthias Roick 2 Medieval Background to Magnificence in Habsburg Spain: King Solomon as Enduring Exemplar of Divine Worship Jorge Fernández-Santos 3 Magnificence between Effect of Power and Power of Effect Michèle-Caroline Heck Part 2: The Court and Aristocracy 4 The Hall of Realms, a Space for Royal Magnificence Miguel Hermoso Cuesta 5 Magnificence, Power, and Private Finance in the Seventeenth Century: Flavio Orsini and Marie-Anne de La Trémoille, between Rome and Paris (1675–1686) Anne-Madeleine Goulet 6 The Magnificence of the Royal Household and Royal Sites: The Case of the Spanish Monarchy Félix Labrador Arroyo and José Eloy Hortal Muñoz 7 Educating Magnificence: Juan Eusebio Nieremberg on Ascesis and Splendour in his Manual for the Reales Estudios of the Colegio Imperial at Madrid Gijs Versteegen Part 3: Architecture 8 Building Magnificence in the Dutch Golden Age: the Amsterdam Town Hall Stijn Bussels and Bram Van Oostveldt 9 Maiestate Tantum: Spiritual Magnificence at the Cappella dei Principi Lindsay Alberts 10 Magnificence Exemplified: the Restoration of the Old St. Paul’s London Anne-Françoise Morel 11 Magnificent! Gaspar Fagel’s Plant Collection at Leeuwenhorst Elizabeth den Hartog Part 4: Performance 12 Magnificence and Atticism in Seventeenth-Century Venice Alessandro Metlica 13 Magnificence and Regality in Milanese Celebratory Sets: The Birth of Balthasar Charles and Exequies in the Epoch of Philip IV Alessandra Mignatti 14 The Ducal Stage: Festive Culture and the Display of Magnificence in Seventeenth-Century Württemberg Kathrin Stocker 15 The Libertine Subversion of the Masque: The Case of John Wilmot’s Lucina’s Rape Klaas Tindemans 16 Magnificence as Aesthetic Category in Court Plays: Molière’s Les Amants Magnifiques (The Magnificent Lovers) Victoire Malenfer Index Nominum
£140.00
Brill Early Modern Diplomacy and French Festival Culture in a European Context, 1572-1615
Book SynopsisThis book is the first to explore the rich festival culture of late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century France as a tool for diplomacy. Bram van Leuveren examines how the late Valois and early Bourbon rulers of the kingdom made conscious use of festivals to advance their diplomatic interests in a war-torn Europe and how diplomatic stakeholders from across the continent participated in and responded to the theatrical and ceremonial events that featured at these festivals. Analysing a large body of multilingual eyewitness and commemorative accounts, as well as visual and material objects, Van Leuveren argues that French festival culture operated as a contested site where the diplomatic concerns of stakeholders from various national, religious, and social backgrounds fought for recognition.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures List of Abbreviations Preliminary Notes Introduction 1 Diplomatic Practices 2 Topic and Terminology 3 State of the Field 4 Methodology and Historical Sources 5 Outline of Chapters 1 Unhappy Products of Unhappy Times: European Thought on Diplomacy and Festival Culture in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries 1 Introduction 2 The Humanist Roots of Diplomacy and Festival Culture 3 Practices of Negotiation 4 Practices of Hospitality 5 Practices of Publicisation 6 Conclusion 2 Cross-Confessional Diplomacy: The Parisian Court Festivals of Summer 1572 1 Introduction 2 Diplomatic Context 3 The Ratification Ceremony for the Treaty of Blois, 15 June 1572 4 Banquets and Theatrical Entertainments, 13–20 June 1572 5 The Nuptial Ceremony for the Valois-Navarre Festival, 18 August 1572 6 A Royal Dinner and Theatrical Entertainments, 18–21 August 1572 7 Conclusion 3 Diplomatic (In)Hospitality: Henri III’s Controversial Reception of Dutch Rebels, Winter 1585 1 Introduction 2 Diplomatic Context 3 Travelling to Paris, January–February 1585 4 Reception at Court, February–March 1585 5 Conclusion 4 Public and Back-Channel Diplomacy: Broadcasting Reconciliation at the Time of the Edict of Nantes and the Peace of Vervins, 1598–1600 1 Introduction 2 Diplomatic Context 3 Receiving Catholic and Protestant Allies, Spring 1598 4 Staging Reconciliation, Winter 1600 5 Conclusion 5 Contesting Diplomacies: Continuity and Audience Control at Two Royal Marriages, 1612–1615 1 Introduction 2 Diplomatic Context 3 Winning Support for the Franco-Spanish Double Marriage in Paris, 1612 4 Celebrating the Anglo–German Wedding in London, 1613 5 Celebrating the Franco–Spanish Double Marriage in Paris, 1615 6 Conclusion Conclusion Bibliography Index
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Brill Landscape and the Visual Hermeneutics of Place, 1500–1700
Book SynopsisThis volume examines the image-based methods of interpretation that pictorial and literary landscapists employed between 1500 and 1700. The seventeen essays ask how landscape, construed as the description of place in image and/or text, more than merely inviting close viewing, was often seen to call for interpretation or, better, for the application of a method or principle of interpretation. Contributors: Boudewijn Bakker, William M. Barton, Stijn Bussels, Reindert Falkenburg, Margaret Goehring, Andrew Hui, Sarah McPhee, Luke Morgan, Shelley Perlove, Kathleen P. Long, Lukas Reddemann, Denis Ribouillault, Paul J. Smith, Troy Tower, and Michel Weemans.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations Notes on the Editors Notes on the Contributors Part 1: Introduction: The Hermeneutic and Exegetical Potential of Landscapes 1 Introduction: Landscape and the Visual Hermeneutics of Place, 1500–1700 Walter S. Melion 2 Parabolic, Periphrastic, and Emblematic Ekphrasis in Hans Bol’s Emblemata Evangelica of 1585 Walter S. Melion Part 2: Constructions of Identity: Landscapes and the Description of Reality 3 Landscape Description and the Hermeneutics of Neo-Latin Autobiography: the Case of Jacopo Sannazaro Karl Enenkel 4 Landscape in Marcus Gheeraerts’s Fable Illustrations Paul J. Smith 5 Order or Variety? Pieter Bruegel and the Aesthetics of Landscape Boudewijn Bakker 6 Schilderachtig: A Rhyparographic View of Early 17th-Century Dutch Landscape Painting Reindert Falkenburg 7 Landscape with Landmark: Jacob van Ruisdael’s Panorama of Amsterdam (1665–1670) Stijn Bussels 8 Jacob van Ruisdael’s The Jewish Cemetery, c. 1654–1655: Religious Toleration, Dutch Identity, and Divine Time Shelley Perlove 9 ‘Car la terre ici n’est telle qu’un fol l’estime’: Landscape Description as an Interpretative Tool in Two Early Modern Poems on New France William M. Barton Part 3: Constructions of Artificial Landscapes: Gardens, Villegiatura, Ruins 10 Hermeneutics and the Early Modern Garden: Ingenuity, Sociability, Education Denis Ribouillault 11 The Politics of Space of the Burgundian Garden Margaret Goehring 12 The Stratigraphy of Poetic Landscape at the Esquiline Villa Sarah McPhee 13 Poussin’s Allegory of Ruins Andrew Hui 14 ‘False Art’s Insolent Address’: The Enchanted Garden in Early Modern Literature and Landscape Design Luke Morgan Part 4: Constructions of Imaginary Landscapes 15 Narrative Vitality and the Forest in the Furioso Troy Tower 16 Epic Salvation: Christ’s Descent into Hell and the Landscape of the Underworld in Neo-Latin Christian Epic Lukas Reddemann 17 World Landscape as Visual Exegesis: Herri met de Bles’s Penitent Saint Jerome Michel Weemans 18 Cities of the Dead: Utopian Spaces, the Grotesque, and the Landscape of Violence in Early Modern France Kathleen Long Index Nominum
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Brill Iron Age Terracotta Figurines from the Southern Levant in Context
Book SynopsisThis interdisciplinary volume is a ‘one-stop location’ for the most up-to-date scholarship on Southern Levantine figurines in the Iron Age. The essays address terracotta figurines attested in the Southern Levant from the Iron Age through the Persian Period (1200–333 BCE). The volume deals with the iconography, typology, and find context of female, male, animal, and furniture figurines and discusses their production, appearance, and provenance, including their identification and religious functions. While giving priority to figurines originating from Phoenicia, Philistia, Jordan, and Israel/Palestine, the volume explores the influences of Egyptian, Anatolian, Mesopotamian, and Mediterranean (particularly Cypriot) iconography on Levantine pictorial material.Trade Review"En résumé, cet ouvrage fait le point sur de nombreux dossiers en cours. L’approche est originale puisqu’elle permet d’appréhender ce matériel de manière globale. En effet, les différentes enquêtes ne se résument pas à une présentation typologique de ces terres cuites, mais insistent toutes sur la matérialité et la destination de ces images, ainsi que sur leurs contextes d’utilisation. Chaque contribution accorde une large place à la méthodologie suivie, ce qui guide commodément le lecteur et lui donne matière à réflexion. Au total, il s’agit d’un ouvrage nécessaire sur la coroplathie levantine." - Estelle Galbois, Université Toulouse – Jean Jaurès, in Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2022.05.12 "This important collection of essays provides a cutting-edge update of available southern Levantine figurines from the Iron Age until the Persian Period (1200–333 BCE). Focusing on the material profile of each find, a clarification of the typology and classification of each object is provided—as either female, male, animal, or furniture figurines—together with a description of their production, appearance, and provenance." - Sandra Jacobs, in The Society for Old Testament Study Book List 2022Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables 1 Introduction Erin D. Darby and Izaak J. de Hulster 2 Iron Age Terracotta Figurines from the Levant: A Comparative and Iconographic Perspective Izaak J. de Hulster 3 A Technical Perspective on Some Iron Age Pillar Figures from Cyprus and the Levant Annie Caubet 4 Anthropomorphic Figurines from Iron Age II Phoenicia Astrid Nunn 5 Iron Age Figurines from Philistia David Ben-Shlomo 6 Iron Age Figurines from Philistia and Phoenicia: A Response Margaret Cohen 7 Judahite Pillar Figurines: More Questions than Answers Robert Deutsch 8 Sex in the City? Judean Pillar Figurines and the Archaeology of Jerusalem Erin D. Darby 9 Response to Darby and Deutsch Beth Alpert Nakhai 10 Molds and Mold-Links: A Close View on the Female Terracotta Figurines from Iron Age II Transjordan Regine Hunziker-Rodewald 11 Astarte on Her Horse at Khirbat al-Mudayna in Northern Moab P.M. Michèle Daviau and Emily Zeran 12 Response to Hunziker-Rodewald and Daviau and Zeran Margreet L. Steiner 13 The Iron Age Terracotta Figurines from Cyprus Erin Walcek Averett 14 Iron Age Figurines from Syria Alexander Pruss 15 Coroplastic Figural Art in Egypt during the Late Period (664–332 BC) Veit Vaelske Index
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Brill Renewing Royal Imagery: Akhenaten and Family in the Amarna Tombs
Book SynopsisIn Renewing Royal Imagery: Akhenaten and Family in the Amarna Tombs, Arlette David offers a systematic, in-depth analysis of the visual presentation of ancient Egyptian kingship during Akhenaten's reign (circa 1350 B.C.) in the elite tombs of his new capital, domain of his god Aten, and attempts to answer two basic questions: how can Amarna imagery look so blatantly Egyptian and yet be intrinsically different? And why did it need to be so?Trade Review“(…) cet ouvrage offre un grand intérêt pour les recherches amarniennes et jette une nouvelle lumière sur la manière dont la réforme politico-religieuse entreprise par Akhénaton attacha une immense importance au discours iconographique et aux détails de sa mise en scène, ouvrant ainsi la voie à de nombreuses innovations en matière de royauté et de religion décelables au coeur de l’iconographie, comme, par exemple, le rôle et le statut toujours plus important conféré à l’épouse royale et aux jeunes princesses, dans un esprit de modernité précurseur qui ne pouvait survivre tel quel à la mort du pharaon.” - Cathie Spieser, Université de Fribourg, in Bibliotheca Orientalis, LXXVIII N° 5-6, oktober-december 2021Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures and Tables Introduction 1 Description vs. Interpretation 2 What’s Wrong with the ‘Queen of Punt’? 3 Royal Scenes in Amarna Elite Tombs 1 Offering King Motif: King as Officiant 1 Description 2 Iconography 3 Interpretation 2 Driving King Motif: King in Apotheosis 1 Description 2 Iconography 3 Interpretation 3 Feasting King Motif: King as Consumer 1 Description 2 Iconography 3 Interpretation 4 Patron King Motif: King as Benefactor 1 Description 2 Iconography 3 Interpretation 5 Mourning King Motif: King Facing Loss 1 Description 2 Iconography 3 Interpretation Conclusions Bibliography General Index Egyptian Lexemes Index Egyptian Texts Index Museum Items Index
£209.60
Brill John Lydgate, The Dance of Death, and its model, the French Danse Macabre
Book Synopsis“[…], Davidson’s and Oosterwijk’s volume [...] offers a deeply researched, wide-ranging, and profoundly valuable overview of major Anglo-French contributions to the broader danse macabre tradition.” - Elizaveta Strakhov, University of Marquette, USA in Speculum, 2023. "This book combines a scholarly edition of Lydgate’s Dance of Death and the French Danse Macabre poem, and discusses their wider context and historical circumstances of their creation, authorship and visualisation."Trade Review“[…], Davidson’s and Oosterwijk’s volume [...] offers a deeply researched, wide-ranging, and profoundly valuable overview of major Anglo-French contributions to the broader danse macabre tradition.” - Elizaveta Strakhov, University of Marquette, USA in Speculum, 2023. “[…] this volume is a tour-de-force and there can be little doubt that it will stand the test of time and be widely accepted as a standard work.” - Sally Badham, Peregrinations: Journal of Medieval Art and Architecture, 7, 4, 2021.Table of ContentsPreface List of Figures Biographical Information 1 Introduction The Dance of Paul’s Iconographic Representations of Death The Dance of Death and the Popular Imagination The Role of Death in Life A Topical and Adaptable Motif The Origins of the Dance of Death The Danse Macabre Mural in Paris Further Dissemination of the Danse Macabre Manuscripts and Printed Texts Manuscripts of the A–Group Manuscripts of the B–Group Editorial Principles Part 1: John Lydgate’s Dance of Death 2 Edited Texts: John Lydgate’s Dance of Death MS. Bodleian Selden Supra 53 Lansdowne MS. 699, fols. 41–50 Oxford, Douce BB53 3 Textual Notes: John Lydgate’s Dance of Death A-Group (Bodleian Library, MS. Selden Supra 53) B-Group (British Library, MS. Lansdowne 699) Textual Notes to Douce BB.53 (Fakes Edition) 4 Critical Notes: John Lydgate’s Dance of Death Stanzas Only in the B–Group, Following the Order of Lansdowne MS. 699 Part 2: The French Danse Macabre 5 Edited Text and Translation: Guy Marchant’s Danse Macabre (1485) 6 Woodcuts and Comments: Guy Marchant’s Danse Macabre (1485) 7 Textual Notes: Guy Marchant’s Danse Macabre (1485) 8 Critical Notes: Guy Marchant’s Danse Macabre (1485) Appendix: Transcription of the “Chambéry roll”, a French Dramatized Danse Macabre Text of the Late Fourteenth or Early Fifteenth Century (Collection Claudius Bouvier, Archives départementales de Savoie, Chambéry, France) Bibliography Glossary Index
£116.80
Brill A Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries Since 1975
Book SynopsisThe Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries Since 1975 is the final volume of the four-volume series of cultural histories of the avant-garde movements in the Nordic countries. This volume carries the avant-garde discussion forward to present-day avant-gardes, challenged by the globalisation of the entertainment industries and new interactive media such as the internet. The avant-garde can now be considered a tradition that has been made more widely available through the opening of archives, electronic documentation and new research, which has spurred both re-enactments, revisions and continuations of historical avant-garde practices, while new cultural contexts, political, technological and ecological conditions have called for new strategies.Trade Review“A tour-de-force through 20th-century Nordic avant-garde and cultural history." [...] "[This] is a very focused volume, which, with the introduction and introductions to each individual section, educationally takes the reader by the hand through the various avant-garde activities documented. Add to this the fact that each individual article is well written, highly interesting and thought-provoking, and that each should lead to further study at various university levels (many deserving of their own PhD theses). [...] The editorial tour-de-force through 20th-century Nordic cultural history has also provided new perspectives on the second neo-avant-garde wave that cancels the dichotomy between center and periphery; instead it is shown that [...] the Nordic countries show power to constitute such centers in international cultural history.” -Per Bäckström, Edda, Volume 110, Issue 1, pp 62–66, 6 March 2023. “En tour-de-force genom 1900-talets nordiska avantgarde- och kulturhistoria." [...] "[Detta] är en mycket fokuserad volym, som med introduktionen och inledningar till varje enskild sektion, på ett pedagogiskt vis för läsaren vid handen genom de olika avantgardeaktiviteter som dokumenteras. Lägger man till detta att varje enskild artikel är välskriven, högst intressant och tankeväckande, och att var och en borde leda till vidare studier på olika universitetsnivåer (mycket förtjänar egna doktorsavhandlingar). [...] Redaktionens tour-de-force genom 1900-talets nordiska kulturhistoria har dessutom gett nya perspektiv på den andra neoavantgardevåg som upphäver dikotomin mellan centrum och periferi; istället visas att [...] de nordiska länderna uppvisar kraft att utgöra sådana centrum i den internationella kulturhistorien.” -Per Bäckström, Edda, Volume 110, Issue 1, pp 62–66, 6 March 2023.Table of ContentsPreface Contributors The Long Avant-Garde Tradition – Restaging, Resisting, Renewing Tania Ørum and Laura Luise Schultz Section 1: Paradigmatic Cases Introduction to Section 1 Benedikt Hjartarson Appropriating the Past to Examine the Present – On Matias Faldbakken as Media Artist Anders Skare Malvik Magma and Persona – Material Generativity in the Work of Björk Guðmundsdóttir Holger Schulze DOGMA 95 and The Idiots – A Renewal of Avant-Garde Realism in Film Bodil Marie Stavning Thomsen Feminist Avant-Garde Film of the 1970s as Gender Politics – The Example of Tornerose, by Jytte Rex and Kirsten Justesen Camilla Skovbjerg Paldam Such Stuff as We Are Made of – Kirsten Dehlholm, Billedstofteater and Hotel Pro Forma Laura Luise Schultz “An American Poet Only Writing in Finnish” – Leevi Lehto’s Seminal Role in Contemporary Finnish Poetry Anna Helle and Martin Glaz Serup Section 2: The Promises of Technology Introduction to Section 2 Camilla Skovbjerg Paldam The Avant-Garde and the Computer Industry – Art and Technology Collaborations at Datasaab and IBM Sweden from the late 1960s to the 1990s Anna Orrghen Miracle Machines – The Creative and Democratic Promise of the Photocopier: Danish Xerography 1979–1995 in an Avant-Garde Perspective Lise Skytte Jakobsen Avant-Garde Anomalies and Transnational Trajectories – The Place and Time of Gunvor Nelson’s Collage Films of the 1980s John Sundholm Art for Aliens – On Goodiepal’s Xenophile Posthumanism Jacob Wamberg Erkki Kurenniemi – Life Is an Algorithm Lars Bang Larsen Life in a Code – Mikael Brygger’s “NASDAQ 30.5.2010” as Found Poetry Miikka Laihinen Section 3: The Performative Turn Introduction to Section 3 Laura Luise Schultz She Splits Phallic Cucumbers with a Knife – The Norwegian Vienna Activist that Art History Forgot Susanne Christensen “Don’t Panic. Black, No Sugar is a New Way of Life!” – An Icelandic Street Theatre between Carnival and Disturbance Magnús Þór Þorbergsson Two Different Perspectives on the Avant-Garde in Finnish Dance in the 1980s – Reijo Kela and Sanna Kekäläinen Aino Kukkonen Hilarious Imperialists – Baktruppen’s Bad Family Photos from the World Tour Cecilie Ullerup Schmidt Jessie Kleemann between Orsoq and Turpentine David Winfield Norman Humour as an Avant-Garde Strategy in Three Generations of Feminist Art: Kirsten Justesen, Hanne Nielsen & Birgit Johnsen and Maja Malou Lyse Camilla Skovbjerg Paldam Precarious Fiction and Precarious Spectatorship – The Artistic Practice of SIGNA as Theatrical Avant-Garde Thomas Rosendal Nielsen Section 4: Intervention and Institutional Critique Introduction to Section 4 Laura Luise Schultz The Skinnebach Effect – Towards a Poetic Institutional Critique Mathies G. Aarhus The Stunt Poets – A Literary Avant-Garde in the Neo-Liberal Age of Mass Media Wenche Larsen We Are a Song the Band Doesn’t Play – Systematic Systemic Critique in Contemporary Swedish Poetry Elisabeth Friis The Sámi Museum in Karasjok – A Story of Resistance Hanna Horsberg Hansen S.L.Á.T.U.R. – The Obtrusive Composers’ Collective Margrét Elísabet Ólafsdóttir The Guerrilla Paradigm or “Feminist-Avant-Garde” – Towards an Alternative Feminist Canon Æsa Sigurjónsdóttir Section 5: Venues Introduction to Section 5 Benedikt Hjartarson J.O. Mallander and the Nordic Neo-Avant-Garde Sami Sjöberg Was ist der Fall? What is the Case? Mr. Klein’s Last Moments (P)reconstructed by Mail Peter van der Meijden Toward a Kinetic Icelandic Culture – Friðrik Þór Friðriksson, Suðurgata 7 and Experimental Film in Iceland Benedikt Hjartarson Look Back, Dig Out, Mix Up, Think Forward – The Archival Activism of OEI Thomas Hvid Kromann The Bergensbrag Generation – The Rise of Independent Literary Platforms in Norway, 2000–2005 Susanne Christensen Investigative Infrastructures – Nordic Small Presses of the Twenty-First Century Ana Stanićević Locality and Literary Intervention – Ida Börjel’s Skåneradio Marianne Ølholm Danish Children’s and Youth Television from an Avant-Garde Perspective Christa Lykke Christensen The Ultima Festival in Oslo – Institutionalising the Avant-Garde? Astrid Kvalbein Section 6: Subcultures Introduction to Section 6 Laura Luise Schultz The Copenhagen Punk Years – Art with No Future? Marie Arleth Skov The Performance Group Værst’s Nine Performance Videos for Sort Sol’s Album Flow My Firetear Magnus Kaslov Beyond the Borders – Elgaland-Vargaland and the Association for Temporary Art Håkan Nilsson The Happy Antagonist – Pasi “Sleeping” Myllymäki’s Underground Super-8 Films Tytti Rantanen Immigrant Film Co-Operatives in Sweden – The Most Typical Avant-Garde Lars Gustaf Andersson and John Sundholm Specialists in Revolt – The Surrealist Group of Stockholm Kristoffer Noheden “To Be Fully Subconscious” – On the Medúsa Group Úlfhildur Dagsdóttir Home to Hell – Tóroddur Poulsen Kinna Poulsen A “Cow-Napping” in Context: From the Scribble Board to Zero Tolerance – (Sub)Cultural Interventions in the Public Realms of Stockholm, 1968–2004 Jacob Kimvall “… because enmity and admiration go hand in hand” – Guy Maddin’s Tales from the Gimli Hospital Kjartan Már Ómarsson Section 7: Postmodernism and Re-Enactments Introduction to Section 7 Camilla Skovbjerg Paldam Postmodern Avant-Garde in Theory and in Poetry in Finland at the End of the Twentieth Century Harri Veivo Avant-Garde vs. “Avant-Garde” – Danish Artists of the 1980s as Successors to and Rebels against the 1960s Avant-Garde Kamma Overgaard Hansen Traces of Avant-Garde Strategies in Danish Poetry of the 1980s Marianne Ølholm Cecilie Løveid – Postmodern Recycling of the Avant-Garde Wenche Larsen French Feminist Theory and Surrealism in Karin Moe’s Kjønnskrift (Sextext) Gerd Karin Omdal “New. Fantastic. Different” – Mariaana Jäntti’s Amorfiaana (1986) and Monika Fagerholm’s Diva (1998) as Finnish Feminist Avant-Garde Prose Fiction Kaisa Kurikka The Arctic Mongrel – Pia Arke’s Ethno-Aesthetics as Post-Colonial Avant-Gardism Mette Sandbye Section 8: The End of the Avant-Garde? Introduction to Section 8 Tania Ørum Superflex and the End of Art Solveig Gade A BIGamist Bricoleur – The Postmodern Avant-Gardism of Bjarke Ingels Kasper Lægring Avant-Garde Design in Denmark – Four Cases Concerning Furniture Peter Brix Søndergaard Avant-Garde and Post-Colonial? – How to Square the Circle in a Nordic Country with a Colonial Past Anne Ring Petersen Constructing an Avant-Garde Canon in the Twenty-First Century – On the Icelandic Poetry Group Nýhil Benedikt Hjartarson Precarious Life – Nielsen’s Search for a Life beyond Identity Laura Luise Schultz A Contemporary Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries? Subversion or Subvention Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen Index
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Brill Grotesque and Caricature: Leonardo to Bernini
Book SynopsisGrotesque and Caricature: Leonardo to Bernini examines these two genres across Renaissance and Early Modern Italy. Although their origins stem from Antiquity, it were Leonardo da Vinci’s early teste caricate that injected fresh life into the tradition, greatly inspiring generations of artists. Critical among them were his Milanese followers, such as Giovanni Paolo Lomazzo, and also Michelangelo and Sebastiano del Piombo as well as, notably, Annibale Carracci, Guercino, and Bernini among others. Their artistic production—drawings, prints, paintings, and sculpture—reveals deep interest in physical, physiognomic, and psychological observations with a penchant for humour and wit. Written by an international group of established and emerging scholars, this volume explores new insights to these complementary artistic genres. Contributors include: Carlo Avilio, Ilaria Bernocchi, Christophe Brouard, Sandra Cheng, Susan Klaiber, Michael W. Kwakkelstein, Tod A. Marder, Rebecca Norris, Lucia Tantardini, Nicholas J. L. Turner, Mary Vaccaro, and Matthias Wivel.Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgements Lucia Tantardini, Rebecca Norris and Lucia Tantardini List of Figures Notes on Contributors Notes on the Text Monstrous Inventions: Caricature and the Grotesque in Early Modern Art Sandra Cheng 1 Leonardo da Vinci’s Drawings of Busts of Old Men and Women with Monstruous Faces: Satire as Moral Criticism Michael W. Kwakkelstein 2 Lomazzo’s Grotesque Heads Revisited Lucia Tantardini 3 Sebastiano del Piombo’s Caricatural Gesture and the Path to Idealism Matthias Wivel 4 Burlesque Irreverences: Domenico Campagnola and Ruzante in the Corte Cornaro Christophe Brouard 5 Carracci’s Ritrattini Carichi and the ‘Origins’ of Caricature Mary Vaccaro 6 Guercino’s Grotesque Heads and Caricatures Nicholas Turner 7 Deformation as Revelation: A Monstrous Portrait by Bartolomeo Passerotti Ilaria Bernocchi 8 Heavenly Bodies III: Bernini’s Caricatures and Copies Tod Marder 9 Rudolf Wittkower, Bernini’s Caricatures (1931) Translator Susan Klaiber 10 Jusepe de Ribera and the Grotesque: Between Science and Comedy Carlo Avilio Bibliography
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Brill Romanesque Renaissance: Carolingian, Byzantine and Romanesque Buildings (800–1200) as a Source for New All’Antica Architecture in Early Modern Europe (1400–1700)
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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Brill Mudejarismo and Moorish Revival in Europe: Cultural Negotiations and Artistic Translations in the Middle Ages and 19th-century Historicism
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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Brill Right and Left in Early Christian and Medieval Art
Book SynopsisRobert Couzin’s Right and Left in Early Christian and Medieval Art is the first in-depth study of handedness, position, and direction in the visual culture of Europe and Byzantium from the fourth to the fourteenth century. Heretofore largely unnoticed or ignored, the pre-eminence of the right and lapses or intentional departures from that norm in medieval imagery are relevant to such major themes as iconography, visuality, reception, narrative, form, gender, production, and patronage. The author’s investigation of right and left in visual culture is informed by modern experimental research on laterality and contextualized within prevailing theological doctrines and socio-cultural practices. Illustrations in the text are complemented by hundreds more made available on Brill's Arkyves platform here. See inside the book.Trade Review"Dans cet ouvrage, Robert Couzin s’interroge sur les relations entre la gauche et la droite et leur capacité à sous-tendre la composition de l’image médiévale. Le corpus iconographique rassemblé par l’auteur est varié, réunissant différentes techniques et divers supports, autant en Orient qu’en Occident, le tout sur une période d’environ mille ans. [...] R. Couzin propose une étude originale qui éclaire différemment des aspects compositionnels et sémantiques de l’image paléochrétienne et médiévale en s’attachant aux relations entre la gauche et la droite. Au-delà d’une réflexion sur les enjeux de la prééminence du côté droit dans l’art médiéval, l’auteur met en lumière tout un jeu de relations, jusqu’ici peu examiné sous cet angle, entre les figures, les gestes, les objets et les inscriptions dans l’image." Raphaël Demes, in Francia 2022 (1). "In this fascinating, well detailed, and richly illustrated study, Robert Couzin examines the significance of right- or left-handedness in eastern and western Christian visual art from the fourth through the fourteenth century.[...] The closing pages of the book strongly advocate the value of the study and criticize art historians who are inattentive to the significance of right and left. Couzin equates that inattention with failing to notice such other features as use of materials, application of color,or differences in style or technique. Couzin further laments that the matters he discusses have "gonelargely unnoticed" and are "underappreciated" when they are noticed (242). His case is well made, even if it makes a somewhat contentious final statement. Thankfully,with the publication of this erudite and detailed volume, that nolonger can be said. Robin M. Jensen, University of Notre Dame, in The Medieval Review 22.01.2022Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Abbreviations Introduction: The Pre-Eminence of the Right 1 On Human Handedness 2 The Sublimation of Right and Left 3 Historiography 4 Plan of the Work Part 1: The Right Hand 1 Picturing Handedness 2 The Hand of God 1 The Great Right Hand 2 The Other Hand of God 3 God in the Image of Man 3 Fighting and Writing 1 Handedness and Violence 2 Handedness and the Scribe 3 The Pen and the Sword 4 A Digression on Feet 1 Stepping Up to the Altar 2 Figures in Motion 3 Footwashing 4 The Three-Nail Crucifixion Part 2: The Right Side 5 Picturing Position 6 Peter and Paul in Early Christian Art 1 Double Portraits of the Chief Apostles 2 Peter, Paul, and Jesus 3 The Politics of Apostolic Precedence 7 Spouses: The Place of Gender 1 Early Christian Men on the Left 2 Medieval Men on the Right 3 Transgression: Medieval Women on the Right 4 The Coronation of the Virgin: Sponsa on the Right Part 3: The Right Way 8 The Pythagorean Y 1 The Two Ways: Pythagoras and Matthew 2 Erlangen Universitätsbibliothek, Ms. 8, fol. 130v 3 The Pilgrim’s Choice 4 A Matter of Mentality 9 Sacred Movement 1 Depicted Motion in Latin- and Greek-Language Cultures 2 The Syriac and Hebrew Evidence 3 Conclusions 10 Narrative Sequence 1 Script Direction and Pictorial Programming 2 Linear Programs and the Puzzle of Bernward’s Column Epilogue 1 Misapprehension 2 Inattention 3 Disinterest 4 Future Directions Bibliography Index
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Brill Faking It!: The Performance of Forgery in Late
Book SynopsisFaking It! collects eleven chapters which explore the question of forgery from different disciplinary angles: literary historical and art historical contributions share space with discussions of jewels, architecture and coinage. The various case studies take as their focus developments in Renaissance Italy and early modern England as well as in France, Germany, Malta, Denmark, Sweden, Iceland, Russia and Australia. While each chapter contributes to a better understanding of the local context of cultural production, together they suggest new answers to how we can understand forgery. The concept of performance allows us to see beyond normative approaches and gain insight into some of the ambiguities concerning the nature of forgery. Contributors to this volume: Brian J. Boeck, Federica Boldrini, Patricia Pires Boulhosa, Laurent Curelly, Helen Hughes, Jacqueline Hylkema, Philip Lavender, Lorenzo Paoli, Ingrid Rowland, Camilla Russo and Ksenija Tschetschik-Hammerl.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures Notes on the Editors Notes on the Contributors 1 Introduction: The Performance of Forgery Philip Lavender and Matilda Amundsen Bergström 2 Forgery, Audience and Authentication: Icelandic Agreements of the Fifteenth Century Patricia Pires Boulhosa 3 All That Glitters Is Not Gold: False Jewellery and Its Juridical Regulation in Italy between the Late Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period Federica Boldrini 4 Re-Forging a Forgery: The French Editions of Annius of Viterbo’s Antiquitates Lorenzo Paoli 5 Prenatal Prophecies and Linguistic Ciphers: A Russian Political Forgery Devoted to the Autocratic Evil of Ivan the Terrible Brian J. Boeck 6 Girolamo Baruffaldi as a Forger: The Case of Barbara Torelli Camilla Russo 7 The Deceptive Power of a Monogram: Appropriating Dürer’s Identity in the Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries Ksenija Tschetschik-Hammerl 8 Mind Your U’s and V’s!: Counterfeiting Newspapers in Civil War Britain Laurent Curelly 9 The Theatre of Forgery: Curzio Inghirami (Volterra, 1614–1655) and Giorgio Grognet de Vassé (Malta, 1774–1862) Ingrid Rowland 10 Sailing and Sinking on the Sea of Forgery: The Tradition of Fake Sagas in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Sweden and Denmark Philip Lavender 11 Of Theatrical Illusion and Fake Advertisements: George Bickham the Younger, Samuel Foote and the Great Bottle Hoax of 1749 Jacqueline Hylkema 12 Counterfeiting Coins and Convict Transportation from England to Australia in the Eighteenth Century Helen Hughes Index Nominum
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Brill Sport and the European Avant-Garde (1900-1945)
Book SynopsisWhat has been the significance of sport for the European avant-garde in the first half of the 20th century? From an international and interdisciplinary perspective we show the extent to which avant-garde art and culture was shaped by the dynamic encounter with modern sports. Our focus lies on avant-garde artists, groups, movements and institutions across Europe (including Cubism, Futurism, Vorticism, Purism, Expressionism, Dada, the Bauhaus, Constructivism in Central and Eastern Europe), thereby unfolding the diversity of avant-garde responses to modern sports. The book in front of you includes fascinating readings in the fields of aesthetics, visual cultures, cultural history and politics and highlights why specific kinds of sport such as cycling, boxing and football became important for avant-garde movements and artists.Table of ContentsList of Figures Introduction: Sport and the European Avant-Garde, 1900–1945 Andreas Kramer and Przemysaw Stroek 1 Vitalist Cubisms: The Biocultures of Virility, Militarism and La Vie Sportive Fae Brauer 2 The Aesthetics and Ideology of Sport in Italian Futurism Günter Berghaus 3 Outside the Vortex?: Vorticism and the English Avant-Garde’s Indifference to Sport John Hughson 4 ‘Vive le sport!’ German Expressionism and Dada Andreas Kramer 5 Sports and the Bauhaus: Bringing School to Life Joann Skrypzak-Davidsmeyer 6 A New Pitch: Art, Sport and the Impact of the Avant-Garde in the Soviet Union in the 1920s Mike O’Mahony 7 Worker Sport, Mountaineering and the Avant-garde Left in Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Poland: On Sporting Content in ReD, Munka and Dwignia Przemysaw Stroek 8 After Purism: The Young Man’s Home at the 1935 Brussels Exhibition Bernard Vere Index
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Brill Antique Dealing and Creative Reuse in Cairo and Damascus 1850-1890: Intercultural Engagements with Architecture and Craft in the Age of Travel and Reform
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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Brill Art and Material Culture in the Byzantine and Islamic Worlds: Studies in Honour of Erica Cruikshank Dodd
Book SynopsisDedicated to Erica Cruikshank Dodd, Art and Material Culture in the Byzantine and Islamic Worlds offers new perspectives on the Christian and Muslim communities of the east Mediterranean from medieval to contemporary times. The contributors examine how people from diverse religious backgrounds adapted to their changing political landscapes and show that artistic patronage, consumption, and practices are interwoven with constructed narratives. The essays consider material and textual evidence for painted media, architecture, and the creative process in Byzantium, Crusader-era polities, the Ottoman empire, and the modern Middle East, thus demonstrating the importance of the past in understanding the present. Contributors: Evanthia Baboula, Lesley Jessop, Anthony Cutler, Jaroslav Folda, John Osborne, Glenn Peers, Annemarie Weyl Carr, Mat Immerzeel, Bas Snelders, Angela Andersen, May Farhat, Marcus Milwright, Rico Franses.Table of ContentsErica Cruikshank Dodd Passion, Serendipity, Curiosity, and the Making of an Art Historian Lesley Jessop Bibliography of Erica Cruikshank Dodd Note on Transliteration and Dates List of Illustrations Contributors Introduction: Diversity and Identity in the Medieval Mediterranean and Beyond Evanthia Baboula and Lesley Jessop 1 The Anaphoric Icon Observations on Some Byzantine Metapictures Anthony Cutler 2 Two Icons of the Virgin and Child Hodegetria from St. Catherine’s Monastery on Mount Sinai Byzantine or Crusader? Jaroslav Folda 3 The Thirteenth-Century Expansion of the Narthex of San Marco, Venice A Space for Dead Doges? John Osborne 4 The Refectory of the Monastery of St. Mary in the Valley of Jehoshaphat, Jerusalem Crusader Painting at Crossroads Glenn Peers 5 Orthodox Monasteries under Lusignan Rule Relations with Others, Relations with Their Own Annemarie Weyl Carr 6 Church Embellishment in Medieval Egypt, Syria, and Cyprus Patronage and Identity Mat Immerzeel and Bas Snelders 7 The Tale of the Shared Church in Diyarbakir Narrative Traditions of the Co-Use of Places of Prayer by Muslims and Christians Angela Andersen 8 Beirut’s Great ʿUmari Mosque History, Memory and Post-War Reconstruction May Farhat 9 The Traditional Crafts of the Middle East and Central Asia in the Writings of European and North American Travellers Marcus Milwright 10 To Not Know God Geometrical Abstraction and Visual Theology in Islamic Art Rico Franses Index
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Brill Dematerialization and the Social Materiality of Art: Experimental forms in Argentina, 1955-1968
Book SynopsisAward winner: Best Book in Latin American Visual Culture Studies from the Latin American Studies Association Dematerialization and the Social Materiality of Art reconceptualizes mid-twentieth-century avant-garde practices in Argentina with a focus on the changing material status of the art object in relation to the country’s intense period of modernization. Elize Mazadiego presents Oscar Masotta’s notion of dematerialization as a concept for interpreting experimental art practices that negated the object’s primacy, while identifying their promise within the sociopolitical transformations of the 1950s and 1960s. She argues that, in abandoning the traditional art object, the avant-garde developed new materialities rooted in Buenos Aires’ changing social life. A critical examination of art’s materiality and its social role within Argentina, this important study paves the way for broader investigations of postwar Latin American art.
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Brill Gateways to the Book: Frontispieces and Title Pages in Early Modern Europe
Book SynopsisGateways to the Book investigates the complex image–text relationships between frontispieces and illustrated title pages on the one hand and texts on the other, in European books published between 1500 and 1800. Although interest in this broad field of research has increased in the past decades, many varieties of title pages and a great deal of printers and books remain as yet unstudied. The fifteen essays collected in this volume tackle this field with a great variety of academic approaches, asking how the images can be interpreted, how the texts and contexts shape their interpretation, and how they in turn shape the understanding of the text.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Notes on the Editors Notes on the Contributors 1 Gateways to the Books: Early Modern Frontispieces – Introduction Gitta Bertram, Nils Büttner and Claus Zittel PART 1: The Culture of the Frontispiece 2 Considerations on the History and the Analysis of Illustrated Title Pages Gitta Bertram 3 Minerva in the Printshop: Publisher’s Advertising in Frontispieces and the Media Presence of Early Modern Printer-Publishers Lea Hagedorn 4 The Frontispiece Portrait and Its Critics: Visual and Verbal Tactics for Undermining the Social Productivity of Printed Portraits in Early Modern Scholarly Culture Hole Rößler PART 2: The Frontispiece between Art and Science 5 The Poetological Frontispiece in 17th-Century German Poetry Claus Zittel 6 Lady Music, Pythagoras, Apollo & Co.: Frontispieces and Title Woodcuts in Music Theory Prints and Musical Textbooks around 1500 Fabian Kolb 7 Visualising the Constitution of Art: Frontispieces in “Kunstliteratur” in the Early Modern Period Constanze Keilholz 8 When Mars Meets Euclid: The Relationship between War and Mathematical Sciences in Frontispieces of Fortification Treatises Delphine Schreuder 9 Travels towards Humankind’s Salvation, Travels through Nature Enlightened by Science: Frontispieces on Africa and the Levant, 17th–18th Centuries Cornel Zwierlein PART 3: Case Studies 10 A Moralistic Journey: The Tabula Cebes as an Architectural and Spatial Allegory in Sixteenth-Century Basel Miranda L. Elston 11 Rubens’s Legacy in Book Design Nils Büttner 12 The Title Page of Jacob van der Gracht’s Anatomie and 17th-Century Dutch Artists’ Education in Anatomy Alice Zamboni 13 The Role of Multiple Frontispieces in the Cultus Sancti Francisci Xaverii Alison C. Fleming 14 Juan Ricci de Guevara’s Introduction of Wise Painting Martijn van Beek 15 The Architectural Folios of Jeremias Wolff Daniel Fulco 16 Monumental Elements in Early 18th-Century Book Illustration: Jacob Tonson the Younger, George Vertue and the Illustrated Editions of the Works of Edmund Waller Malcolm Baker Index Nominum
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Brill Ficino and Fantasy: Imagination in Renaissance Art and Theory from Botticelli to Michelangelo
Book SynopsisDid the Florentine philosopher Marsilio Ficino (1433-99) influence the art of his time? Art historians have been fiercely debating this question for decades. This book starts with Ficino’s views on the imagination as a faculty of the soul, and shows how these ideas were part of a long philosophical tradition and inspired fresh insights. This approach, combined with little known historical material, offers a new understanding of whether, how and why Ficino’s Platonic conceptions of the imagination may have been received in the art of the Italian Renaissance. The discussion explores Ficino’s possible influence on the work of Botticelli and Michelangelo, and examines the appropriation of Ficino’s ideas by early modern art theorists.
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Brill Brussels 1900 Vienna: Networks in Literature, Visual and Performing Arts, and other Cultural Practices
Book SynopsisThis co-edited volume offers new insights into the complex relations between Brussels and Vienna in the turn-of-the-century period (1880-1930). Through archival research and critical methods of cultural transfer as a network, it contributes to the study of Modernism in all its complexity. Seventeen chapters analyse the interconnections between new developments in literature (Verhaeren, Musil, Zweig), drama (Maeterlinck, Schnitzler, Hofmannsthal), visual arts (Minne, Khnopff, Masereel, Child Art), architecture (Hoffmann, Van de Velde), music (Schönberg, Ysaÿe, Kreisler, Kolisch), as well as psychoanalysis (Varendonck, Anna Freud) and café culture. Austrian and Belgian artists played a crucial role within the complex, rich, and conflictual international networks of people, practices, institutions, and metropoles in an era of political, social and technological change and intense internationalization. Contributors: Sylvie Arlaud, Norbert Bachleitner, Anke Bosse, Megan Brandow-Faller, Alexander Carpenter, Piet Defraeye, Clément Dessy, Aniel Guxholli, Birgit Lang, Helga Mitterbauer, Chris Reyns-Chikuma, Silvia Ritz, Hubert Roland, Inga Rossi-Schrimpf, Sigurd Paul Scheichl, Guillaume Tardif, Hans Vandevoorde.Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables Note on Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction Brussels 1900 Vienna: Cultural Transfers 1880–1930 Piet Defraeye, Helga Mitterbauer and Chris Reyns-Chikuma PART 1 Staging Modernisms 1 The Power of Retheatricalization and Depersonalization Maurice Maeterlinck and Hugo von Hofmannsthal Anke Bosse 2 Viennese Theatre Critics on Viennese Maeterlinck Productions Sigurd Paul Scheichl 3 Arthur Schnitzler and Theatre in Belgium: 1900–1930 Piet Defraeye PART 2 Transpositions 4 Literary Exchanges from Vienna to Brussels 1880–1920 Hubert Roland 5 Stefan Zweig as a Mediator and Translator of Emile Verhaeren’s Poetry Norbert Bachleitner 6 Concepts of Exoticism in Brussels and Vienna around 1900 Szilvia Ritz 7 Parallel Campaigns of Cultural Renewal Art Nouveau, Robert Musil, and The Man Without Qualities Aniel Guxholli PART 3 Transformations 8 Belgian Artists and the Secessionist Battle for Modern Art Inga Rossi-Schrimpf 9 Another Modernity? Viennese Art Criticism and the Reception of Belgian Arts and Architecture around 1900 Sylvie Arlaud 10 Fernand Khnopff, a Painter Columnist in the Viennese Press A London–Vienna Connection via Brussels Clément Dessy 11 Kinderkunst between Vienna and Brussels 1900 Child Art, Primitivism, and Patronage Megan Brandow-Faller 12 Between Brussels and Vienna Frans Masereel’s Transnational Wordless Narratives Chris Reyns-Chikuma PART 4 Resonances 13 Arnold Schoenberg, La Jeune Belgique, and the Dialectics of (Viennese) Modernism Alexander Carpenter 14 Parallels and Intervals Violinists Intersecting with Modernity Guillaume Tardif PART 5 Café and Psyche 15 About Well-Lit Hullaballoos and Suffocating Air Senses in the Brussels and Viennese Cafés at the Fin-de-Siècle Hans Vandevoorde 16 Psychoanalysts Through Translation? Julien (Johan) Varendonck (1879–1924) —— Anna Freud (1895–1982) Birgit Lang Index
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Brill Revolts and Political Violence in Early Modern Imagery
Book SynopsisIn the early modern period, images of revolts and violence became increasingly important tools to legitimize or contest political structures. This volume offers the first in-depth analysis of how early modern people produced and consumed violent imagery, and assesses its role in memory practices, political mobilization, and the negotiation of cruelty and justice. Critically evaluating the traditional focus on Western European imagery, the case studies in this book draw on evidence from Russia, China, Hungary, Portugal, Germany, North America, and other regions. The contributors highlight the distinctions among visual cultures of violence, as well as their entanglements in networks of intensive transregional communication, early globalization, and European colonization. Contributors: Monika Barget, David de Boer, Nóra G. Etényi, Fabian Fechner, Joana Fraga, Malte Griesse, Alain Hugon, Gleb Kazakov, Nancy Kollmann, Ya-Chen Ma, Galina Tirnanić, and Ramon Voges.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction: Revolts and Political Violence in Early Modern Imagery Malte Griesse, Monika Barget and David de Boer Part 1: Visual Markers of Legitimacy 1 To Visualize or Not to Visualize: Commemorating the Suppression of Revolt in Early Qing China Ya-chen Ma 2 Visualizing Punishment in Byzantium: Disseminating Memories of Quelled Revolts before the Age of Mechanical Reproduction Galina Tirnanić 3 Revolutionary Ceremonies and Visual Culture during the Neapolitan Revolt (1647–1648) Alain Hugon Part 2: Confessional Conflict 4 From Power Brokers to Rebels: How Frans Hogenberg Depicted the Beginning of the Dutch Revolt Ramon Voges 5 Strategies of Transnational Identification: Images of the 1655 Massacre of the Waldensians in the Dutch Press David de Boer 6 Image and Text as Propaganda during the Upper Austrian Peasant War, 1626 Malte Griesse Part 3: Foreign Observation 7 The International Reputation and Self-Representation of Hungarian Noblemen in the Seventeenth Century Nóra G. Etényi and Monika Barget 8 Representing the King: The Images of João IV of Portugal (1640–1652) Joana Fraga 9 Marking Political Legitimacy in Early Modern Images of Russia Nancy Kollmann 10 Through Glory and Death: Stepan Razin and the 1670–1671 Cossack Rebellion in Western Early Modern Visual Culture Gleb Kazakov Part 4: Revolutionary Images 11 Concepts of Leadership in Early Portraits of American Revolutionaries Monika Barget 12 Satirical Rebels? Irritating Anticipations in European Visualizations of Black American Insurgents around 1800 Fabian Fechner Index
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Brill The Making of Medieval Sardinia
Book SynopsisThis landmark volume combines classic and revisionist essays to explore the historiography of Sardinia’s exceptional transition from an island of the Byzantine empire to the rise of its own autonomous rulers, the iudikes, by the 1000s. In addition to Sardinia’s contacts with the Byzantines, Muslim North Africa and Spain, Lombard Italy, Genoa, Pisa, and the papacy, recent and older evidence is analysed through Latin, Greek and Arabic sources, vernacular charters and cartularies, the testimony of coinage, seals, onomastics and epigraphy as well as the Sardinia’s early medieval churches, arts, architecture and archaeology. The result is an important new critique of state formation at the margins of Byzantium, Islam, and the Latin West with the creation of lasting cultural, political and linguistic frontiers in the western Mediterranean. Contributors are Hervin Fernández-Aceves, Luciano Gallinari, Rossana Martorelli, Attilio Mastino, Alex Metcalfe, Marco Muresu, Michele Orrù, Andrea Pala, Giulio Paulis, Giovanni Strinna, Alberto Virdis, Maurizio Virdis, and Corrado Zedda.
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Brill The Religious and Cultural Landscape of Ottoman Manastır
Book SynopsisIn this ground-breaking work on the Ottoman town of Manastir (Bitola), Robert Mihajlovski, provides a detailed account of the development of Islamic, Christian and Sephardic religious architecture and culture as it manifested in the town and precincts. Originally a town on the edge of the Via Egnatia, this small provincial town gradually developed into a significant administrative, military, religious, cultural and intellectual centre for the Balkans; a vibrant place, nurturing progressive multi-cultural and multi-confessional values with considerable influence on the formation of modern Balkan identities. The present work is the culmination of thirty years of research using primary source material from archives and chronicles and the monuments themselves for the purpose of both preserving and extending the boundaries of current knowledge. It offers a comprehensive biography of a great cultural knot in the Balkans and offers a rich source for further use by scholars, students and non-technical readership alike.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations Note on Pronunciation Introduction A Geographical Note An Overview of Pre-Ottoman Christian Cultural History 1 The Conquering Church 2 Days and Deeds of Heraclean Bishops 3 Peripheral Ecclesiastical Centres 4 Evangelization of the Slavs 5 Sectarians and Separatists 6 The “Bitola Inscription” 7 The Byzantine Reconquista 8 Crushed between the East and the West 9 Filling the Vacuum 1 Pax Ottomana in Toli Manastır (1385–1808) 1 The Ottoman Conquest 2 The Development of Toli Manastır 3 From a Provincial Town to an Administrative Centre 4 Survey of the Mosques of Toli Manastır 5 The Other Benefitiaries 2 Christianity in Ottoman Manastır (1385–1767) 1 Continuity Unchallenged 2 The Cult of the God-Bearer Pelagonitissa 3 The Revitalization of Christianity in Manastır 4 Regional Church Heritage 5 Literacy and Diplomacy 6 The Early Church of St. Demetrios 7 Further Regional Church Heritage 8 The Prelates on Record 9 Vindication and Revival 10 In the Middle of Controlled Demolition 11 Some Welcome Immigrants 3 The Sephardic Jews of Manastır (1497–1808) 1 Early Judaism in the Balkans 2 Medieval Jewry 3 The Sephardic Exodus 4 The Sephardim in Manastır 5 The Shabbatai Tsvi Controversy and Beyond 6 The Dawn of a New Era 4 The Ottoman Capital of Turquie D’europe 1 The Historical Background: From the Time of Ali Paşa until the First Balkan War in 1912 2 The Urban Development and Topography of the Town 3 The Religious and Cultural Traditions of the Ottoman Muslim Population in Manastır during the 19th Century 4 The Ottoman Christians of Bitola/Manastır during the 19th Century 5 The Sephardic Jewish Community of Bitola/Manastır between 1800 and 1943 Conclusion Glossary Bibliography Index of Personal and Place Names
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Brill Culture matérielle et contacts diplomatiques entre l’Occident latin, Byzance et l’Orient islamique (XIe–XVIe siècle)
Book SynopsisCulture matérielle et contacts diplomatiques rassemble quatorze études qui traitent de la culture matérielle en relation avec les échanges diplomatiques qui ont marqué un espace géographique couvrant la zone méditerranéenne entre le XIe et le XVIe siècles. The present volume brings together fourteen studies that deal with material culture in relation to diplomatic exchanges in the Mediterranean area between the eleventh and the sixteenth centuries.Table of ContentsAvant-propos Liste des illustrations et des tableaux Abréviations Liste des auteurs 1 Culture matérielle et relations diplomatiques entre l’ Occident latin, Byzance et l’ Orient islamique (xie-xvie siècle) : une introduction Frédéric Bauden Première partie Ambassades 2 Un siècle de voyages diplomatiques byzantins (1261-1371) Élisabeth Malamut 3 Les missions diplomatiques des soufis aux xiie et xiiie siècles : organisation et aspects matériels Motia Zouihal 4 Diplomatie sur le terrain : la première mission diplomatique florentine en territoire mamelouk Alessandro Rizzo 5 Au mépris de la diplomatie : l’ assassinat de l’ ambassadeur du sultan à Khirokitia Cécile Khalifa 6 Diplomacy at Its Zenith : Material Culture of Mamluk-Timurid Diplomacy in the Ninth/Fifteenth Century Malika Dekkiche 7 La Lettre comme illusion de dialogue : regards croisés à propos de rapports diplomatiques entre la Castille et les Timourides (1401-1406) Marisa Bueno Deuxième partie Cadeaux 8 Aspects matériels du don d’ animaux exotiques dans les échanges diplomatiques Thierry Buquet 9 Gift Exchanges and Traces of Material Life in Mamluk Diplomacy : First Notes on Embassies from Egypt to Italy and Italian Missions to Cairo (1421-1512) Beatrice Saletti 10 Interpreting the Veneto-Mamluk Gift Exchanges of 1489-90 Jesse J. Hysell 11 Transporter des livres lors d’ une ambassade : l’ exemple arménien d’ après l’ étude de quelques colophons de manuscrits (xiie-xve s.) Isabelle Augé 12 Culture matérielle et échanges diplomatiques des États latins d’ Orient avec l’ Occident latin, le monde byzantin et l’ Orient islamique : l’ exemple des manuscrits enluminés croisés Émilie Maraszak Troisième partie Documents 13 Lists of Gifts in the Mamluk Diplomatic Tradition Frédéric Bauden 14 Mamlūk Diplomatic Letters in the Context of Arabic Epistolography Daniel Potthast 15 Négocier à la cour du sultan hafside : le dernier traité de paix conclu avec la Commune de Pise (800/1397) Mohamed Ouerfelli Conclusions 16 La matérialité des échanges diplomatiques : remarques conclusives Nicolas Drocourt et Stéphane Péquignot Index
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Brill Art and Worship in the Insular World: Papers in Honour of Elizabeth Coatsworth
Book SynopsisA monastic artist with an unusual enthusiasm of male buttocks and genitalia; a nun bringing her spinning equipment from her home in the south to her new convent in the north; the riddle of a carved archer bearing a book instead of arrows; a bishop’s ring hiding in its design symbols of the essential aspects of the Christian faith: these are some of the secrets of early medieval personal and public worship uncovered in this book. In tribute to a scholar who is herself a polymath of early medieval studies, these chapters explore approaches which have particularly engaged her: stone sculpture; text; textiles; manuscript art; metalwork; and archaeology. With a brief foreword by Professor Dame Rosemary Cramp. Contributors are Richard N. Bailey, Michelle P. Brown, Peter Furniss, Jane Hawkes, David A. Hinton, Maren Clegg Hyer, Catherine E. Karkov, Alexandra Lester-Makin, Christina Lee, Donncha MacGabhann, Éamonn Ó Carragáin, Gale R. Owen-Crocker, Frances Pritchard, and Penelope Walton Rogers.Table of ContentsForeword Rosemary J. Cramp Elizabeth (Betty) Coatsworth: Her Life and Times Gale R. Owen-Crocker The Published Work of Elizabeth Coatsworth List of Illustrations List of Tables Contributors Introduction Gale R. Owen-Crocker and Maren Clegg Hyer part 1: Representation: Art and Worship through Text, Textile and Tool 1 Figurative Art in the Book of Kells: Absurd Anatomies, See-through Tunics and Diverse Hairstyles Donncha MacGabhann 2 The Art of Looking Good: Hair and Beauty Remedies in Early Medieval Texts and Contexts Christina Lee 3 Dress and Undress, Real and Unreal, in the Drawings of Harley Psalter Artist F Gale R. Owen-Crocker 4 Adorning Medieval Life: Domestic and Dress Textiles as Expressions of Worship in Early Medieval England Maren Clegg Hyer 5 In Search of Hild: A Review of the Context of Abbess Hild’s Life, Her Religious Establishment, and the Relevance of Recent Archaeological Finds from Whitby Abbey Penelope Walton Rogers 6 Embroidery on Spin-Patterned Linen in the 6th to 9th Centuries Frances Pritchard 7 The Embroidered Fragments from the Tomb of Bishop William of St Calais, Durham: An Analysis and Biography Alexandra Lester-Makin part 2: In Their Contexts: Art and Worship through Sculpture, Carving and Manuscript 8 Framing Fragmentation: (Re)Constructing Anglo-Saxon Sculpture Jane Hawkes 9 The Thread of Ornament Catherine E. Karkov 10 A Newly Identified Anglo-Saxon Sculpture in Great Chalfield Church, Wiltshire David A. Hinton 11 The Company They Keep: Scholarly Discussion, 2005–2020 of the Original Settings for the Poems in the Dream of the Rood Tradition Éamonn Ó Carragáin 12 Bishop Acca’s Portable Altar: Authentic Relic or Twelfth-Century Hexham Fiction? Richard N. Bailey 13 The Hereford Gospels Reappraised Michelle P. Brown and Peter Furniss Appendix: Observations on the Codicology and Palaeography of the Hereford Gospels, a Scribe’s ViewBy Peter Furniss (Chairman, Shropshire Scribes) Select Bibliography Index
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Brill A Companion to the Spanish Renaissance
Book SynopsisA Companion to the Spanish Renaissance makes a renewed case for the inclusion of Spain within broader European Renaissance movements. Its introduction, “A Renaissance for the ‘Spanish Renaissance’?” will be sure to incite polemic across a broad spectrum of academic fields. This interdisciplinary volume combines micro- with macro-history to offer a snapshot of the best new work being done in this area. With essays on politics and government, family and daily life, religion, nobles and court culture, birth and death, intellectual currents, ethnic groups, the plastic arts, literature, popular culture, law courts, women, literacy, libraries, civic ritual, illness, money, notions of community, philosophy and law, science, colonial empire, and historiography, it offers breath-taking scope without sacrificing attention to detail. Destined to become the standard go-to resource for non-specialists, this book also contains an extensive bibliography aimed at the serious researcher. Contributors are: Beatriz de Alba-Koch, Edward Behrend-Martínez, Cristian Berco, Harald E. Braun, Susan Byrne, Bernardo Canteñs, Frederick A. de Armas, William Eamon, Stephanie Fink, Enrique García Santo-Tomás, J.A. Garrido Ardila, Marya T. Green-Mercado, Elizabeth Teresa Howe, Hilaire Kallendorf, Henry Kamen, Elizabeth A. Lehfeldt, Michael J. Levin, Ruth MacKay, Fabien Montcher, Ignacio Navarrete, Jeffrey Schrader, Lía Schwartz, Elizabeth Ashcroft Terry, and Elvira Vilches.Trade Review“The book is described on the cover as a “go-to resource for non-specialists.” The description is just. Specialists will turn to it also, for the scholarly summaries it contains suggest multiple topics for further research. And it is beautifully produced, with a large number of illustrations, many of them in color.” Terence O’Reilly, University College Cork. In: Journal of Jesuit Studies, Vol. 6, No. 2 (2019), pp. 357–360. “This Companion to the Spanish Renaissance brings to the public a well-balanced compendium of views on the Renaissance in the multiple sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Iberian worlds. […] The book is an assortment of historical and literary essays that touch on many issues relevant for university-level courses. The book is very pedagogical, clearly explaining basic concepts related to the period. […] Any course related to the Habsburg early modern conglomerates of power would benefit from the use of this volume as a textbook or as a reference book.” Juan Pablo Gil-Osle, Arizona State University. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 73, No. 1 (Spring 2020), pp. 287–288. “A Companion to the Spanish Renaissance will become an invaluable addition to the library of any scholar or institution that is interested in early modern Spain, the Spanish Golden Age, or the Spanish Renaissance. […]. This volume is an incredibly important contribution to discipline and to the field of Spanish Renaissance Studies. It is well suited to advanced undergraduates who become interested in any aspect of the period. Likewise, it would serve as valuable reference tool in producing advanced undergraduate-level lectures or similar discussions. Graduate students and scholars who are new to the field will find it invaluable as they ground themselves in the historical contexts, primary sources, and historiography of the period. And even established scholars will find it useful, if not for the content, then certainly for the reference value.” Samuel A. Claussen, California Lutheran University. In: The Sixteenth Century Journal, Vol. 52, No. 1 (Spring 2021), pp. 155–157. “A Companion to the Spanish Renaissance presents both micro- and macro-historical approaches to the appearance, uses, and meanings of humanist culture in Spain and Latin America between 1500–1700. The volume’s treatment of such fascinating Latin material as the translation of a Nahuatl herbal in 1522 (p. 502), alongside better-known texts such as Nebrija’s Introductiones latinae (p. 321) or Alfonso de Palencia’s Universale Compendium Vocabulorum (p. 323), means that the companion offers much to Neo-Latin Studies as well as its principal audience in Hispanic Studies.” In: The Year’s Work in Modern Language Studies, Vol. 80, No. 1 (2020), p. 19.
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Brill Figurations animalières à travers les textes et l’image en Europe: Du Moyen-Âge à nos jours Essais en hommage à Paul J. Smith
Book SynopsisDans une perspective pluridisciplinaire et transnationale, ce volume étudie les représentations et symbolisations (pré)modernes des animaux dans les textes littéraires et les arts visuels européens. Using a multidisciplinary and transnational approach, this volume studies the representations and symbolisations of animals in (pre)modern European literary texts and the visual arts.Trade Review“Nombre de chercheurs et chercheures en lettres, en histoire culturelle, en études animales, trouveront des nourritures intellectuelles dans ce volume très riche dont la nature personnelle de la dédicace permet des promenades singulières au gré des cheminements académiques individuels et de voies animales traversières. Le volume offre ainsi des éclai-rages érudits sur des animaux encore souvent marginalisés dans les études animales, parmi lesquels nombre de poissons et d’oiseaux. En montrant l’inextinguible diversité et richesse des figurations animales, et les enchevêtrements étroits entre symboles, allégories, savoirs, et présences des animaux eux-mêmes dans la formation des cultures savantes, artistiques et littéraires européennes, du Moyen- ge à cette longue transition dite naturaliste des XVIe et XVIIe siècles, et au-delà, l’ouvrage est autant une fenêtre sur des foisonnements passés, qu’une ouverture à saisir leurs actualisations par-delà les siccités naturalistes.” - Violette Pouillard, RELIEF vol. 16, no 2, 2022.Table of ContentsRemerciements Liste d’illustrations Données personnelles sur les auteurs Introduction De la cigale et la fourmi au lion et au-delà Alisa van de Haar and Annelies Schulte Nordholt partie 1: Identifications, déterminations 1 Rabelais et ses sacrés oiseaux Mireille Huchon 2 La caractérisation des animaux venimeux chez Grévin traducteur de Nicandre Anne-Pascale Pouey-Mounou 3 Sur un animal exotique du bestiaire bartasien Denis Bjaï 4 Narrative Jewellery Mythological Creatures in Two Sixteenth-Century Jewels from the Low Countries Margot Leerink and Nicole Spaans 5 Depicting Fish in Early-Modern Venice and Antwerp Florike Egmond and Marlise Rijks 6 The Ornithologist Francis Willughby’s Visit to the ‘Bird Paradise’ of Zevenhuizen in June 1663 Tim R. Birkhead and Herman Berkhoudt 7 The Fish That Could Climb Palm Trees Observation, Rumour and Colonial Hearsay in Nineteenth-Century Ichthyology Johannes Müller 8 Birds in the Life and Work of Johan Huizinga (1872–1945) Anton van der Lem partie 2: Origines et influences 9 Fable and Parable The Prehistory and Reception of an Aesopic Motif in Flavius Josephus Gert-Jan van Dijk 10 The Enigmatic Death of Cuwaert A Comparison between the Roman de Renart and the Dutch Van den vos Reynaerde Jan de Putter 11 On Horses – Two Medieval Authors, Their Manuscripts, Early Printed Books and Illustrations An Evaluation Boudewijn Commandeur 12 Hirondelles de Rabelais Romain Menini 13 Rabelais scénariste des mondes imaginaires de Pline l’Ancien Pantagruel, Gargantua, le Tiers livre et l’exemplaire BSB de l’Histoire naturelle (Bâle, Froben, 1525) Claude La Charité 14 Marcus Gheeraerts, Source of Inspiration for Tapestry-Designers Sixteenth-Century Fable-Illustrations Used in Seventeenth-Century Tapestries Dirk Geirnaert 15 The Unicornus Marinum of Dr Nicolaes Tulp A Scottish Sea-Unicorn Adrift M.M. Zijlstra-Mondt 16 Ascendances et sources du « Chat et un vieux Rat » (Jean de La Fontaine, Fables, III, 18) Antoine Biscéré and Patrick Dandrey 17 La Fontaine entre Ésope et Homère À propos des Deux Coqs Paul Pelckmans 18 The Shark in the Library Books and Non-book Artifacts in Private Library Auction Catalogues, 1665–1830 Alicia C. Montoya 19 Medieval Animals in Middle-earth J.R.R. Tolkien and the Old English and Middle English Physiologus Thijs Porck partie 3: Symbolisations animalières 20 Le Veau d’or dans les adaptations bibliques en ancien français Un animal à nature double Julia C. Szirmai 21 Allegorising Heraldic Animals in Two Laments by the Fourteenth-Century Dutch Poet Jan Knibbe Wim van Anrooij 22 Alciato the Animal Observer On the Description of Animal Behaviour in the Emblematum Liber Karl A.E. Enenkel 23 Diptyque avec animaux Un jeu éducatif de Barthélemy Aneau et sa suite (1542) Kees Meerhoff 24 Théodore de Bèze et le monde animal Poésie et parodie Jeltine L.R. Ledegang-Keegstra 25 Montaigne et la sociabilité des bêtes Philippe Desan 26 Figurations animalières dans les Œuvres poetiques (1606) de Jean Passerat François Rouget 27 Horses of Power and Passion Horses and Their Riders in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Adaptations of the Spanish Comedia Olga van Marion and Tim Vergeer 28 But What Does He Do All Day? Being an Animal in Paradise Lost Jan Frans van Dijkhuizen 29 De vol en vol – Raymond Roussel et les oiseaux Sjef Houppermans 30 Mythographie animalière dans Le Roi des aulnes de Michel Tournier Nicolaas van der Toorn 31 Slow Reading on the Wing Entangling Enactive Literary Criticism, the Energia of Early Modern Imagining, and Artistic Research Sophie van Romburgh Index des noms propres
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Brill Reclaiming Biblical Heroines: Portrayals of Judith, Esther and the Shulamite in Early Twentieth-Century Jewish Art
Book SynopsisAlthough recently more studies have been devoted to the representations of Biblical heroines in modern European art, less is known about the contribution to the portrayals of Biblical women by modern Jewish artists. This monograph explores why and how heroines of the Scripture: Judith, Esther and the Shulamite received a particular meaning for acculturated Jewish artists originating from the Polish lands in the last decades of the nineteenth century and the first two decades of the twentieth century. It convincingly proves that artworks by Maurycy Gottlieb, Wilhem Wachtel, Ephraim Moses Lilien, Maurycy Minkowski, Samuel Hirszenberg and Boris Schatz significantly differed from renderings of contemporary non-Jewish artists, adopting a “Jewish perspective”, creating complex and psychological portrayals of the heroines inspired by Jewish literature and as well as by historical and cultural phenomena of Jewish revival and the cultural Zionism movement.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Illustrations Note to the Reader Introduction 1 Historical Background 2 Aims of the Book and the State of the Research 3 Methodology 1 Judith in Late Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century Jewish Art 1.1 The Book of Judith 1.2 Judith in Pre-modern Jewish and Christian Tradition and Art 1.3 Judith in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Art 1.4 Celebrating Her Triumph: Judith in Late-Nineteenth and Early-Twentieth-Century Jewish Art 2 The Jewish Queen Esther in Early Twentieth-Century Jewish Art 2.1 The Book of Esther: Introduction 2.2 Esther in Pre-modern Jewish and Christian Tradition and Art 2.3 Jewish and Christian Literary Treatments of the Book of Esther in the Nineteenth Century 2.4 Esther in Early Twentieth-Century Jewish Art 3 The Shulamite in Early Twentieth-Century Jewish Art 3.1 The Song of Songs: An Introduction 3.2 The Shulamite in Jewish and Christian Tradition and Art Up to the Nineteenth Century 3.4 New Meanings of the Song of Songs in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Jewish and Christian Literature 3.5 The Ideal Jewish Woman: The Shulamite and The Song of Songs in Jewish Art of the Early Twentieth Century Conclusion Bibliography
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Brill Transmissions and Translations in Medieval Literary and Material Culture
Book SynopsisBringing together the work of scholars from disparate fields of enquiry, this volume provides a timely and stimulating exploration of the themes of transmission and translation, charting developments, adaptations and exchanges – textual, visual, material and conceptual – that reverberated across the medieval world, within wide-ranging temporal and geographical contexts. Such transactions generated a multiplicity of fusions expressed in diverse and often startling ways – architecturally, textually and through peoples’ lived experiences – that informed attitudes of selfhood and ‘otherness’, senses of belonging and ownership, and concepts of regionality, that have been further embraced in modern and contemporary arenas of political and cultural discourse. Contributors are Tarren Andrews, Edel Bhreathnach, Cher Casey, Katherine Cross, Amanda Doviak, Elisa Foster, Matthias Friedrich, Jane Hawkes, Megan Henvey, Aideen Ireland, Alison Killilea, Ross McIntire, Lesley Milner, John Mitchell, Nino Simonishvili, and Rachael Vause.Table of ContentsContents List of Plates List of Figures Abbreviations Contributors Introduction Megan Henvey and Amanda Doviak Part 1: Translating Text, Image and the Material across the Medieval World 1 Unconquered Rome? Translating the Visual in Early Medieval Material Culture Matthias Friedrich 2 Grasping the Cross: Transforming the Body and Mind in Early Medieval England Rachael Vause 3 Crossing and Re-crossing; Translating and Transmitting. The ‘Art of the Archipelago’ Jane Hawkes 4 Transmitted in Stone: Church Organisation in Early Christian Ireland Megan Henvey 5 Finding Dewisland: Hagiography and Landscape in Gerald of Wales’ Vita Davidis Episcopi Menevensis Ross McIntire Part 2: The Power of Transmission: Images and Ideas across the Medieval World 6 Adapting the Ascension: Transmitting Visual Languages on the Leeds Cross Amanda Doviak 7 Transmitting Sacred Authority through Stone: The Clematius Inscription and Cologne’s Cult of the Holy Virgins Cher Casey 8 Images of Identity at the Edge of Empires: The Visual Concept of Power in Medieval Georgia in the Second Half of the 10th Century Nino Simonishvili 9 Abul-Abbas and All That: Visual Dynamics between the Caliphate, Italy and the West in the Age of Charlemagne John Mitchell 10 Ecce Videns Arabes Se: Revisiting the Question of Islamic Influence at Le Puy Cathedral Elisa A. Foster 11 Ingrediente Domino In Sanctam Civitatem: The Golden Gate in Jerusalem and Its Echoes in 12th-Century Christendom Lesley Milner Part 3: Transmission and Translation: Medievalists and Medievalisms 12 Cacophony in C: Custodian, Curator and Collector. Sir William Betham’s Collecting and Redistribution of Medieval Manuscripts Aideen M. Ireland 13 Through a ‘Celtic’ Mist: The Translation of Sacred Places into Theatre Spaces in Medieval and Early Modern Ireland Edel Bhreathnach 14 Beyond the Pale: Seamus Heaney’s Beowulf as Postcolonial Translation Alison Elizabeth Killilea 15 From Dawes to Domesday: Recovering Genealogies of Settler Colonialism Tarren Andrews 16 ‘Anglo-Saxon’ Artefacts in English ‘World’ Museums, 1851–1906 Katherine Cross Index
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Brill Naẓar:Vision, Belief, and Perception in Islamic Cultures
Book SynopsisNaẓar, literally ‘vision’, is a unique Arabic-Islamic term/concept that offers an analytical framework for exploring the ways in which Islamic visual culture and aesthetic sensibility have been shaped by common conceptual tools and moral parameters. It intertwines the act of ‘seeing’ with the act of ‘reflecting’, thereby bringing the visual and cognitive functions into a complex relationship. Within the folds of this multifaceted relationship lies an entangled web of religious ideas, moral values, aesthetic preferences, scientific precepts, and socio-cultural understandings that underlie the intricacy of one’s personal belief. Peering through the lens of naẓar, the studies presented in this volume unravel aspects of these entanglements to provide new understandings of how vision, belief, and perception shape the rich Islamic visual culture. Contributors: Samer Akkach, James Bennett, Sushma Griffin, Stephen Hirtenstein, Virginia Hooker, Sakina Nomanbhoy, Shaha Parpia, Ellen Philpott-Teo, Wendy M.K. Shaw.Table of ContentsPreface Notes to the Reader List of Figures Notes on Contributors Aperture: Terms, Concepts, and Discourse Samer Akkach 1 Naẓar: The Seen, the Unseen, and the Unseeable Samer Akkach 2 Naẓar, Subjectivity, and ‘The Gaze’ Wendy M.K. Shaw part 1: The Eye of the Heart 3 Human Looking, Divine Gaze: Naẓar in Islamic Spirituality Stephen Hirtenstein 4 Seeing with ‘The Eyes of the Heart’: dhikr and fikr as Sources of Insight in Indonesian Islamic Art Virginia Hooker part 2: The Eye of the Mind 5 Transparency: Ibn Al-Haytham’s Manāẓir and Visual Perception of Beauty Ellen Philpott-Teo 6 Veiling: Ibn Al-Qaṭṭān’s Aḥkām and the Rules Concerning Seeing Samer Akkach part 3: Evil Eye, Talismanic Seeing 7 May the Envier’s Eye be Blind Sakina Nomanbhoy 8 Talismanic Seeing: The Induction of Power in Indonesian Zoomorphic Art James Bennett part 4: Gazing Eye, Imaginative Seeing 9 The Artist’s Gaze: Visual Representations of the Mughal Hunting Landscape Shaha Parpia 10 Vernacular Subjectivity as a Way of Seeing: Visualising Bijapur in Nujūm al-ʿUlūm and Kitāb-i-Nauras Sushma Griffin Index
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Brill Shrines in a Fluid Space: The Shaping of New Holy Sites in the Ionian Islands, the Peloponnese and Crete under Venetian Rule (14th-16th Centuries)
Book SynopsisThe open access publication of this book has been published with the support of the Swiss National Science Foundation. In Shrines in a Fluid Space: The Shaping of New Holy Sites in the Ionian Islands, the Peloponnese and Crete under Venetian Rule (14th-16th Centuries), Argyri Dermitzaki reconstructs the devotional experiences within the Greek realm of the Venetian Stato da Mar of Western European pilgrims sailing to Jerusalem. The author traces the evolution of the various forms of cultic sites and the perception of them as nodes of a wider network of the pilgrims’ ‘holy topography’. She scrutinises travelogues in conjunction with archaeological, visual and historical evidence and offers a study of the cultic phenomena and sites invested with exceptional meaning at the main ports of call of the pilgrims’ galleys in the Ionian Sea, the Peloponnese and Crete.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures Introduction 1 Entering the Ionian: The Island of Corfu 1 The Port of Kassiopi 2 The Town of Corfu 2 Sailing towards the Peloponnese: The Strophades Islands 1 The Island of Stamfani 2 The Monastery of the Virgin of Strophades 3 Sailing towards Crete: The Port of Modon 1 Sapienza 2 The Town of Modon 4 The Island of Crete and the Town of Candia 1 Fraskia 2 The Town of Candia Conclusions Bibliography Index
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Brill Chinese Animation and Socialism: From Animators’ Perspectives
Book SynopsisPlease visit our blog to read an interview with Daisy Yan Du. This volume on Chinese animation and socialism is the first in English that introduces the insider viewpoints of socialist animators at the Shanghai Animation Film Studio in China. Although a few monographs have been published in English on Chinese animation, they are from the perspective of scholars rather than of the animators who personally worked on the films, as discussed in this volume. Featuring hidden histories and names behind the scenes, precious photos, and commentary on rarely seen animated films, this book is a timely and useful reference book for researchers, students, animators, and fans interested in Chinese and even world animation. This book originated from the Animators’ Roundtable Forum (April 2017 at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology), organized by the Association for Chinese Animation Studies.Trade Review"Apart from the informative and valuable resources, Du also shares her personal academic experience in this area… In a way, the establishment of this marginalized field can be attributed to her outstanding efforts. This book showcases her endeavours to push the field forward. As an excellent reference book containing useful textual accounts of Chinese socialist animations, it is not only essential for scholars and students interested in the fields of Chinese animation and even worldwide animation but also beneficial to animators who strive to learn from the past." -Shasha Liu, University of Toronto, The China Quarterly (2022).Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Figures List o Contributors Introduction Chinese Animation and Socialism Daisy Yan Du PART 1 The Splendor of Socialist Animation 1 Mochinaga Tadahito in Early Socialist China Mochinaga Noriko, translated by Nick Stember and Yan Chen 2 Walking Our Own Path and Innovating Duan Xiaoxuan, translated by Nick Stember 3 An Authentic Animator Yan Dingxian, translated by Nick Stember 4 Dribs and Drabs Lin Wenxiao, translated by Nick Stember 5 National Style and Characterization Pu Jiaxiang, translated by Isabel Galwey 6 On the Art of Papercutting Animation Pu Yong, translated by Isabel Galwey and Eva Chang PART 2 The Transition to Postsocialist Animated Filmmaking 7 From Layman to Animator Yan Shanchun, translated by Isabel Galwey and Eva Chang 8 In Love with Science Fiction Animation Dai Tielang, interviewed by Daisy Yan Du, organized by Song Han, translated by Yixing Li 9 Tradition and Innovation Chang Guangxi, translated by Sean Macdonald 10 Yilimei and the Shanghai Animation Film Studio Zhou Keqin, translated by Yixing Li PART 3 The Soundscape of (Post)Socialist Animation 11 Synesthesia of Music and Image Jin Fuzai, translated by Sean Macdonald 12 My Career as an Animation Voice Actress Ding Jianhua, interviewed by Daisy Yan Du, organized by Song Han, translated by Yixing Li PART 4 The Literary Landscape of (Post)Socialist Animation 13 My Career as a Screenwriter Ling Shu, translated by Yixing Li PART 5 In Memory of Socialist Animators 14 Those Who Should Not Be Forgotten Yin Xiyong, translated by Eva Chang 15 In Memory of My Father Wang Shuchen Wang Yiqian, translated by Yixing Li PART 6 More than a Fairy Tale: Politics and Chinese Animation 16 A Tradition of Political Propaganda Fung Yuk Song, translated by Isabel Galwey and Shaopeng Chen PART 7 Chinese Animation Goes Abroad 17 Chinese Animation in Japan, 1940s–80s Ono Kōsei, translated by Isabel Galwey, Eva Chang, and Yan Chen Epilogue Socialist Legacy in the Digital Age Daisy Yan Du Bibliography Index
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Brill Art, Architecture, and the Moving Viewer, c. 300-1500 CE: Unfolding Narratives
Book SynopsisPremodern architecture and built environments were fluid spaces whose configurations and meanings were constantly adapting and changing. The production of transitory meaning transpired whenever a body or object moved through these dynamic spaces. Whether spanning the short duration of a procession or the centuries of a building’s longue durée, a body or object in motion created in-the-moment narratives that unfolded through time and space. The authors in this volume forge new approaches to architectural studies by focusing on the interaction between monuments, artworks, and their viewers at different points in space and time. Contributors are Christopher A. Born, Elizabeth Carson Pastan, Nicole Corrigan, Gillian B. Elliott, Barbara Franzé, Anne Heath, Philip Jacks, Divya Kumar-Dumas, Brigitte Kurmann-Schwarz, Ashley J. Laverock, Susan Leibacher Ward, Elodie Leschot, Meghan Mattsson McGinnis, Michael Sizer, Kelly Thor, and Laura J. Whatley.Trade Review'Art, Architecture, and the Moving Viewer, c. 300-1500 CE offers the readers a thoughtfully curated series of fifteen essays that explore holistic approaches to medieval spaces as they may have been experienced by contemporaries of various social classes over time. Through the agency of “the moving viewer,” the chapters yoke symbolic readings of spaces, artwork, and architecture in settings ranging from an intimate side chapel to an immense rock-mound mesa [...] the volume’s editors and chapter authors succeed in bringing provocative discoveries to the global readership of medievalists in art, architectural, and spatial history. It is a collection that supports and extends research into the nuances and details of cultural reception theory and, perhaps further along, into the neurological understanding of medieval environments.' Kim Sexton, in The Medieval Review 23.05.06.Table of ContentsList of Figures Notes on Contributors Unfolding Narratives: An Introduction Gillian B. Elliott and Anne Heath PART 1: Moving Bodies in Space and Narrative 1 Seeing and Not Seeing the Rose Window of Lausanne Cathedral Elizabeth Carson Pastan and Brigitte Kurmann-Schwarz 2 Engaging the Beholder through Image and Inscription in the 13th-Century Stained-Glass Window of St. Margaret of Antioch at Ardagger Abbey Ashley J. Laverock 3 Circulating among Friends: Mary Magdalene, Martha, and Lazarus and the Pilgrimage to the Holy Tear at the Abbey of La Trinité, Vendôme Anne Heath PART 2: Topography and Politicizing Space 4 Written in Stone: Recovering the Magical Role of the locus sanctus in the Medieval Life of San Millán de la Cogolla Kelly Thor 5 Reading Architecture in Landscape: Visitor Reflections at a Mirror Wall (Sigiriya, Sri Lanka) Divya Kumar-Dumas 6 A Holy Hole, Anglo-Saxon Bones, and a Jerusalem Chapel: Redefining Sacred Geography at Winchester Cathedral in the 12th Century Laura J. Whatley 7 Theatrum Paulli or Balneum Paulli: Interpreting the Markets of Trajan in the Middle Ages and Renaissance Philip Jacks PART 3: Spatial Alteration and Reception 8 Transformation at the Garden Gate: The Romanesque Parapets of San Pietro al Monte in Civate Gillian B. Elliott 9 Between Universal and Local Practices: The Unfolding Narrative of the Resurrection of the Christ and Its Public in the Wide-Open Galilee at the Priory of St. Fortunatus, Charlieu Elodie Leschot 10 From Mosque-Cathedral to Gothic Cathedral: Rewriting and Rebuilding in Medieval Toledo Nicole Corrigan 11 Change Unchanging: Mediating the Sacred Spaces of Ise Grand Shrines over Time Christopher A. Born PART 4: Assembly and Space 12 On the Road to the Great Hof: Moving through Space and Time at Old Uppsala Meghan Mattsson McGinnis 13 Abbot Gauzlin’s Tower Porch in Fleury (c.1015–30): A Social Narrative in Favor of the Capetians Barbara Franzé 14 The South Portal at the Cathedral of Le Mans as a Processional Objective Susan Leibacher Ward 15 Storming the Palace: Crowd Incursions into Aristocratic Spaces in Medieval Revolts Michael Sizer Conclusion Index
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Brill Memory and Identity in the Learned World: Community Formation in the Early Modern World of Learning and Science
Book SynopsisMemory and Identity in the Learned World offers a detailed and varied account of community formation in the early modern world of learning and science. The book traces how collective identity, institutional memory and modes of remembrance helped to shape learned and scientific communities. The case studies in this book analyse how learned communities and individuals presented and represented themselves, for example in letters, biographies, histories, journals, opera omnia, monuments, academic travels and memorials. By bringing together the perspectives of historians of literature, scholarship, universities, science, and art, this volume studies knowledge communities by looking at the centrality of collective identity and memory in their formations and reformations. Contributors: Lieke van Deinsen, Karl Enenkel, Constance Hardesty, Paul Hulsenboom, Dirk van Miert, Alan Moss, Richard Kirwan, Koen Scholten, Floris Solleveld, and Esther M. Villegas de la Torre.Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Notes on the Editors Notes on the Contributors 1 Introduction: Memory and Identity in Learned Communities Koen Scholten Part 1: Collective Identity 2 “Identities” in Humanist Autobiographies and Related Self-Presentations Karl A.E. Enenkel 3 Female Faces and Learned Likenesses: Author Portraits and the Construction of Female Authorship and Intellectual Authority Lieke van Deinsen 4 Scholarly Identity and Gender in the Respublica litteraria: The Cases of Luisa Sigea (1522–1560) and Margaret Cavendish (1623–1673) Esther M. Villegas de la Torre 5 The Republic of Letters Mapping the Republic of Letters: Jacob Brucker’s Pinacotheca (1741–1755) and Its Antecedents Floris Solleveld Part 2: Institutional Memory as a Shared Past 6 Mirror, Model, Muse: Institutional Memory and Identity in the Dublin, Oxford and Royal Societies Constance Hardesty 7 Miscellanies of Memory: From Scholarly Biography to Institutional History in the Early Modern German University Richard Kirwan Part 3: Memory Cultures and Modes of Remembrance 8 Tracing the Sites of Learned Men: Places and Objects of Knowledge on the Dutch and Polish Grand Tour Paul Hulsenboom and Alan Moss 9 The Curious Case of Isaac Casaubon’s Monstrous Bladder: The Networked Construction of Learned Memory within the Seventeenth-Century Reformed World of Learning Dirk van Miert Index Nominum
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Brill Meanings and Functions of the Ruler's Image in the Mediterranean World (11th – 15th Centuries)
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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Brill The Mediality of Sugar
Book SynopsisThe Mediality of Sugar probes the potential of reading sugar as a mediator across some of the disciplinary distinctions in early twenty-first century research in the arts, literature, architecture, and popular culture. Selected artistic practices and material cultures of sugar across Europe and the Americas from the sixteenth to the twenty-first century are investigated and connected to the transcontinental and transoceanic history of the sugar plants cane and beet, their botanical and cultural dissemination, and global sugar capital and trade under colonialism and in decoloniality. The collection contributes to the vision of a Transnational and Postdisciplinary Sugar Studies.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations and Tables Notes on Contributors The Mediality of Sugar: Introduction Nadja Gernalzick part 1: Sugar as Medium of Social Signification 1 Materiality, Medium, and Morality: The Colors of Sugar in Trade and Consumption in Europe Today Kerstin Poehls 2 Mediating Social Life: Confectionery as Cultural Objects in Sweden in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Ulrika Torell 3 The Stenographer’s Lunch Midori V. Green 4 Royal Cavities: Towards a Mediality of Sugar Joseph Imorde 5 Sweet Prosperity and Bitter Bondage: Caribbean Empowerment and Race in Andrea Stuart’s Sugar in the Blood: A Family’s Story of Slavery and Empire (2012) Tatiana Prorokova-Konrad part 2: Sugar in Art and Architecture 6 Architecture and Urban Form Derived from Sugar Production: Company Towns in Brazil from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Century Gabriela Campagnol 7 Sugar Cubes That Revolutionized Art: Malevich’s Artistic Project as Interpreted by Leonid Tishkov in Kubvetschnosti (2012) Viola Hildebrand-Schat 8 “It Is at This Cost That You Eat Sugar in Europe:” The Desire for Justice and Moreau le Jeune’s Illustrations (1787) for Voltaire’s Candide ou l’optimisme (1759) Kathrin Baumeister 9 Sugar Cube Mission Models in California Primary Schools and the Whitewashing of Native American Labor Jamie Sierra Karnik part 3: Outlook 10 “Sugar Is Not a Vegetable:” The Mediality of Sugar in Anthropocenic Entanglements Nadja Gernalzick Appendix: Geography of World Sugar Production and History of Labor in Sugar: Maps and Graphs Nadja Gernalzick, with maps contributed by Gabriela Campagnol and Jamie Karnik Index of Names
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