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1 online resource : illustrations |
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Art and Material Culture in Medieval and Renaissance Europe |
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Art and material culture in Medieval and Renaissance Europe.
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Contents |
Preface; List of Table and Figures; List of Contributors; CHAPTER 1; Transient Cities: Representations of Urban Destruction in European Iconography in the Fourteenth to Seventeenth Centuries; Marco Folin (translated by Mark Weir); The Allegorical Paradigm; At the Heart of Political and Religious Controversies; The Spectacle of Destruction; The Cognitive Paradigm; CHAPTER 2; When Towns Collapse: Images of Earthquakes, Floods, and Eruptions in Italy in the Fifteenth to Nineteenth Centuries; Emanuela Guidoboni; Like Messages in Bottles; Ruined Cities as Images of Human Precariousness |
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Grieving, Remembering, Awareness, NewsShowing the Damage, Emotions, and Fears; The Great Seismic Crisis of 1783 in Calabria: Damage Assessed and Represented; Patron Saints and Votive Offerings; Major Volcanic Eruptions: Cities Menaced by Fire and Fallout; The City under Water: Floods in Rome and Florence; Conclusions; CHAPTER 3; Urban Responses to Disaster in Renaissance Italy: Images and Rituals; Fabrizio Nevola; CHAPTER 4; In the Beginning, There was Fire: Vitruvius and the Origin of the City; Olga Medvedkova (translated by Philippe Malgouyres); Res naturales |
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Homines veteres: Vitruvius and LucretiusThe Fire and the First Hut; In the Beginning: The Mixture; Primeval Fire and the Origins of the Illustrated Text: Fra Giocondo, Raphael and Peruzzi; The First Fire: Vernacular Versions; CHAPTER 5; "Cities of Fire": Iconographic Fortune, Taste, and Circulation of Fire Paintings between Flanders and Italy in the Early Sixteenth Century; Isabella di Lenardo (translated by Rebecca Milner); CHAPTER 6; The Destruction of the City: A Pledge of Salvation? Some Reflections about Monsù Desiderio and the Genre of "Destruction Painting"; Philippe Malgouyres |
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The Dual Meaning of Catastrophes' RepresentationsMaerten van Heemskerck's Ruined Cities; Monsù Desiderio's Destruction Paintings; CHAPTER 7; Catastrophe and Photography as a "Double Reversal": The 1908 Messina and Reggio Earthquake and the Album of the Italian Photographic Society; Tiziana Serena (translated by Rebecca Milner); The Catastrophe, Photography, and the Nation; The Photographs of the Earthquake; The Italian Photographic Culture with Respect to the Earthquake; The Album Messina e Reggio: Before and After the Earthquake of December 28th 1908; CHAPTER 8 |
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Meidner's Urban Iconography: Optical Destruction and Visual ApocalypseSophie Goetzmann (translated by Jon and David Michaelson); Changing Visual Perception and a Generational Rift; Earthquakes and Optical Tremors; Strafed Vision; Ocular Lesions; CHAPTER 9; Destruction and Construction in Contemporary Art: Three Cases in Twentieth-Century Italy (Gibellina 1968, Friuli 1976, Napoli 1980); Alessandro Del Puppo (translated by Rebecca Milner); Gibellina 1968; Naples 1980; Friuli 1976; Index of Names; Index of Places |
Summary |
Nine case studies on the artistic representation of earthquakes, fires and other natural disasters in European towns, from the late Middle Ages to the end of the 20th century |
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Includes index |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Print version record |
Subject |
Cities and towns in art.
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Disasters in art.
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Cities and towns -- Europe
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Disasters -- Europe
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ART -- Subjects & Themes -- General.
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Cities and towns
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Cities and towns in art
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Disasters
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Disasters in art
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Europe
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Folin, Marco, editor
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Preti, Monica, editor
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ISBN |
9789004300682 |
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9004300686 |
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