Dalmatia and the Mediterranean : portable archeology and the poetics of influence
Using the Braudelian concept of the Mediterranean this volume focuses on the condition of "coastal exchanges" involving the Dalmatian littoral and its Adriatic and more distant maritime network. Spalato and Ragusa intersect with Constantinople, Cairo and Spanish Naples just as Sinan, Palladio and Robert Adam cross paths in this liquid expanse. Concentrating on materiality and on the arts, architecture in particular, the authors identify portability and hybridity as characteristic of these exchanges, and tease out expected and unexpected serendipitous moments when they occurred. Focusing on translation and its instruments these essays expand the traditional concept of influence by thrusting mobility and the "hardware" of cultural transmission, its mechanisms, rather than its effects, into the foreground
Florenz (2009)
xxi, 469 pages : illustrations some color ; 24 cm
9789004263864, 9789004263918, 9004263861, 9004263918
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Introduction / Alina Payne
Part I. Mobility and history
The view from the land : Austrian art historians and the interpretation of Croatian art / Suzanne Marchand
Evliya Celebi in Dalmatia : an Ottoman traveler's encounters with the arts of the Franks / Cemal Kafadar
The imprimatur of decadence : Robert Adam and the imperial Palatine tradition / Erika Naginski
Part II. The Mediterranean imagination
From Solomon's Temple to Hagia Sophia : a metaphorical journey for Andrea Mantegna / Marzia Faietti
The thin white line : Palladio, white cities and the Adriatic imagination / Alina Payne
Hospitality and hostility in 16th-century art literary sources on the Mediterranean / David Young Kim
Part III. Things that move : textiles
The Byzantine Peplos in Genova : "the object as event" / Ioli Kalavrezou
Architecture for the body : some reflections on the mobility of textiles and the fate of the so-called Chasuble of Saint Thomas
Becket in the Cathedral of Fermo in Italy / Avinoam Shalem
Cloth and geography : town planning and architectural aspects of the first industry in Dubrovnik in the 15th century / Josko Belamaric
Part IV. Portability and networks
Connectivity, mobility, and Mediterranean "portable archaeology" : pashas from the Dalmatian hinterland as cultural mediators / Gulru Necipoglu
The influence of building materials on architectural design : Dalmatian stone at the cathedrals in Korcula and Sibenik / Goran Niksic
Between quarry and magic : the selective approach to Spolia in the Islamic monuments of Egypt / Doris Behrens-Abouseif
The King of Naples emulates Salvia Postuma? : the Arch of Castel Nuovo in Naples and its antique model / Jasenka Gudelj