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