1st Edition

Architecture, Opportunity, and Conflict in Eighteenth-Century Sicily Rebuilding after Natural Disaster

By Martin Nixon Copyright 2023
284 Pages
by Routledge

284 Pages
by Routledge

284 Pages
by Routledge

The catastrophic Sicilian earthquake of 1693 led to the rebuilding of over 60 towns in the island's south-west. The rebuilding extended into the eighteenth century and gave opportunities for the reassertion and the transformation of power relations. Although eight of the towns are now protected by UNESCO, the remarkable architecture resulting from this rebuilding is little known outside Sicily.... Read more
Acknowledgments, Introduction, Chapter One. Sicily as a Colonial Possession c. 1600-1750, Chapter Two. The Hexagonal Towns of Avola and Grammichele, Chapter Three. The Palaces of Noto, Chapter Four. The Palazzo Biscari, Catania, Chapter Five. The Palazzo Beneventano, Scicli, Chapter Six. The Palaces of Ragusa, Conclusion, Appendix, Glossary, List of Illustrations, Bibliography, Index

Biography

Martin Nixon is Assistant Professor of Art History at Zayed University, United Arab Emirates. His research interests include Southern Italian art and architecture, architecture and political power, urbanism and territorial transformation, the reception of architectural ornament, and questions of cultural and stylistic hybridity in architecture. Nixon completed his doctoral dissertation on the eighteenth-century rebuilding of the Val di Noto, Sicily with York University in 2018. In 2011, he received the John Fleming Travel Award to assist his doctoral research in Sicily. He completed an MA in Art History at the Open University in December 2007 with a dissertation on the eighteenth-century Sansevero Chapel in Naples.