1st Edition

Emotions and Architecture Forging Mediterranean Cities Between the Middle Ages and Early Modern Time

Edited By Francesca Lembo Fazio, Valentina Tomassetti Copyright 2024
198 Pages 20 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

198 Pages 20 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

198 Pages 20 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Emotions and Architecture: Forging Mediterranean Cities Between the Middle Ages and Early Modern Time explores architecture as a medium to arouse or conceal emotions, to build consensus through shared values, or to reconnect the urban community to its alleged ancestry. The chapters in this edited collection outline how architectonic symbols, images, and structures were codified – and... Read more

Lists of figures

List of contributors

Preface

1. Fragments, spolia and remains. Emotional antiquities in Rome between the Early Modern and Renaissance era

FRANCESCA LEMBO FAZIO

2. Spaces of virtue. Transcultural affection and its representation in Ottoman-Venetian relations

LUC WODZICKI

3. The geopolitics of simulacra and the seventeenth-century Venetian Holy House of Loreto

LIV DEBORAH WALBERG

4. Mythmaking, fidelity, and urbanism in early modern Messina and Palermo

TAMARA MORGENSTERN

5. Architecture and emotions in early modern quarantine centres

MARINA INÌ

6. The rebuilding of L’Aquila after the 1703 quake: Death and rebirth

ROSSANA MANCINI

7. Identity perception in monuments, ruins and remains: Roman and Romano-British heritage in British travel accounts c. 1770–1820

BARBARA TETTI

Index

Biography

Francesca Lembo Fazio is a Research Fellow in the Department of History, Representation and Restoration of Architecture in Sapienza University of Rome. Her research activity focuses on the perception of ruins and spolia, traditional building techniques, and issues of built heritage and climate change. Her main works and publications are on the protection and reuse practices on ancient ruins in Early Modern Rome and on the restoration of modern architecture, from fascism to post-war reconstruction.

Valentina Tomassetti is currently a PhD student in the History Department at the University of Warwick. Valentina’s research explores the gendered dimensions of female shame, from Renaissance to modern time. Valentina has extensive experience in teaching and has served as Senior Graduate Teaching Assistant between 2018 and 2021. As a proud first-generation graduate, Valentina is passionate about inclusivity and diversity in education. As well as completing her research and collaborating with different charities, Valentina is currently employed as Education and Engagement Officer at UK Parliament.