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Spirit of the Place
These essays are case-studies, the cases unraveling our cultural roots, memory itself. If a museum is the subject, then for instance the way the museum changes face, function, its manner of speech; how, a repository of collections and the cultural memory of humankind itself turns into one of the objects, memories, a custodian and exponent of its own history, or the opposite: how it connects with its modernized environs and changing audience: us. How has, or might the sanctum be transformed into a public venue, go from an inward looking, reverential enclosure to a space full of life. In other studies included here the author speaks of spatial and incarnate remembrance: the radical difference between a monument and a memorial. The duality of “always remembering” and “never forgetting”: a past depersonalized and dehistoricized as it was seized and processed. Of the layers of meaning attached to concentration camps, transmuting essence of artworks, and the difficult, the contradictory but inescapable processing of history and the past, of self-identical existence in history. So that we know we are alive. And how that is so.
Cultural Identity in the Ancient Mediterranean
Cultural identity in the classical world is explored from a variety of angles.
The Robert Lehman Collection, Volume XV: European and Asian Decorative Arts
This volume catalogues more than 400 decorative objects in the Robert Lehman Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, including painted enamels, snuffboxes, porcelain, pottery, ceramics, jewellery, furniture, cast metal, and textiles from throughout Europe and Asia, with the majority dating from the late seventh century to the 20th century.
The Early Modern Invention of Late Antique Rome
A new look at the Cult of the Saints in late antiquity: did it really dominate Christianity in late antique Rome?
Domesticating Saints in Medieval and Early Modern Rome
How elite Roman families used genealogy, architecture, and the urban fabric to appropriate the city’s saints for their own Domesticating Saints in Medieval and Early Modern Rome explores the creative efforts of some of Rome’s most prominent noble families to weave themselves into Rome’s Christian past. Maya Maskarinec shows how, from late antiquity to early modernity, elite Roman families used genealogy, architecture, and the urban fabric to appropriate the city’s saints for their own, eventually claiming them as ancestors. Over the course of the Middle Ages, there developed a pronounced sense that churches and their saints belonged to specific regions, neighborhoods, and even famili...
Britain and the Continent 1660‒1727
This monograph examines the most prestigious political paintings created in Britain during the High Baroque age. It investigates a period characterized by numerous social, political, and religious crises, in the years between the restoration of the Stuart monarchy (1660) and the death of the first British monarch from the House of Hanover (1727). On the basis of hitherto unpublished documents, the book elucidates the creation and reception of nine major commissions that involved the court, private aristocratic patrons, and/or civic institutions. The ground-breaking new interpretations of these works focus on strategies of conflict resolution, the creation of shared cultural memories, processes of cultural translation, the performative context of the murals and the interaction of painted images and architectural spaces.
Saints
While the modern world has largely dismissed the figure of the saint as a throwback, we remain fascinated by excess, marginality, transgression, and porous subjectivity—categories that define the saint. In this collection, Françoise Meltzer and Jas Elsner bring together top scholars from across the humanities to reconsider our denial of saintliness and examine how modernity returns to the lure of saintly grace, energy, and charisma. Addressing such problems as how saints are made, the use of saints by political and secular orders, and how holiness is personified, Saints takes us on a photo tour of Graceland and the cult of Elvis and explores the changing political takes on Joan of Arc in France. It shows us the self-fashioning of culture through the reevaluation of saints in late-antique Judaism and Counter-Reformation Rome, and it questions the political intent of underlying claims to spiritual attainment of a Muslim sheikh in Morocco and of Sephardism in Israel. Populated with the likes of Francis of Assisi, Teresa of Avila, and Padre Pio, this book is a fascinating inquiry into the status of saints in the modern world.
The Palazzo Pamphilj in Piazza Navona
"In this first-ever comprehensive book on the architecture of the Palazzo Pamphilj, Stephanie Leone identifies the construction of this palace, built for Pope Innocent X Pamphilj (1644-55) and his sister-inlaw, Donna Olimpia Maidalchini, as the catalyst for the renovation of Piazza Navona. Previously, misconceptions had hindered an accurate understanding of the palace's history, architecture, patronage, and urbanism and of its place in architectural history." "Based on extensive archival research, an analysis of the architectural drawings, and an examination of the building fabric, Leone presents a fundamentally revised building history that hinges on architectural collaboration between the ...
Holy Rome
Holy Rome A Millennium Guide to the Christian Sights Years of massive renovations have prepared Rome for the 26th Jubilee and the start of the third millenium. Today the city gleams more brilliantly than ever, displaying a fresh, bright face that conjures up the city of centuries gone by, when popes, cardinals, and powerful families were adding magnificent new works of art and architecture to the city's treasure of antiquity and its early Christian relics. Like no other guidebook before, FODOR'S HOLY ROME explores every aspect of the stunning legacy of Christendom -- and brings you close to the powerful soul of the city that has drawn travelers and pilgrims since the dawn of the first millen...
Die Sockelzone der Stanza di Eliodoro – Ein Entwurf Raffaels
Die Ausmalung der Stanza di Eliodoro durch Raffael und seine Werkstatt wurde unter Papst Julius II. (1503–13) begonnen und unter dessen Nachfolger Leo X. (1513–21) vollendet. Im monumentalen Sockel des Raumes ergänzen als Scheinskulpturen konzipierte allegorische Karyatiden die programmatische Aussage der Wandfresken und der Gewölbedekoration. Angesichts der Qualität und Originalität der Sockelgestaltung in der Stanza di Eliodoro besteht zwar seit langem Einigkeit darüber, daß die ursprüngliche Konzeption auf Raffael zurückgeht, eine ausführliche Untersuchung fehlte aber bislang. Die hier vorgestellte Studie liefert erstmals eine detaillierte Betrachtung der Komponenten der Sock...
