Mudejarismo and Moorish Revival in Europe

Cultural Negotiations and Artistic Translations in the Middle Ages and 19th-Century Historicism
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-90-04-44820-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 13, 698 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 1463 g

Reihe: Visualising the Middle Ages

Mudejarismo 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Giese, Francine

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: Byzantinisch
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: Völkerwanderung und Mittelalter
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Geschichte der Architektur, Baugeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

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

Über Autor(innen)

Francine Giese, Ph.D. (2004) and habilitation (2015), University of Bern, is director of Vitrocentre and Vitromusée Romont. From 2014-2019 she held a SNSF professorship at the Institute of Art History of the University of Zurich, where she led the research project Mudejarismo and Moorish Revival in Europe.