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Rediscovering Objects from Islamic Lands in Enlightenment Europe book cover

1st Edition

Rediscovering Objects from Islamic Lands in Enlightenment Europe

Edited By Isabelle Dolezalek, Mattia Guidetti Copyright 2022
188 Pages 53 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

188 Pages 53 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

188 Pages 53 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This book argues that the provenance of early modern and medieval objects from Islamic lands was largely forgotten until the "long" eighteenth century, when the first efforts were made to reconnect them with the historical contexts in which they were produced. For the first time, these Islamicate objects were read, studied and classified – and given a new place in history. Freed by scientific... Read more

Introduction

Isabelle Dolezalek and Mattia Guidetti　

Part I: Changing Perceptions

1. Changing Perceptions of Middle Eastern Objects and Cultures in Eighteenth-Century Europe

Anna Contadini　

2. Reading Ottoman Banners in the State of the Church

Mattia Guidetti　

Part II: Protagonists

3. Oluf Gerhard Tychsen: Orientalist and Object Interpreter in Rostock

Isabelle Dolezalek　

4. Beyond Manuscripts: Maronite Christians as Object Interpreters in Early Modern Europe

Tobias Mörike

Part III: Whose Heritage?

5. The "Baptistère de Saint Louis": The Making of a "Historical Monument"

Carine Juvin

6. "Nuestros árabes"? The Rediscovery of Spanish Islamic Architecture from an Enlightened Gaze

Miriam Cera Brea

Biography

Isabelle Dolezalek is Junior Professor of History of Art at the University of Greifswald, Germany.

Mattia Guidetti is Senior Assistant Professor of History of Islamic Art at the University of Bologna, Italy.

"Dolezalek’s and Guidetti’s volume is a valuable and innovative contribution within this wider field, as it does indeed identify a gap of historiographic knowledge, particularly considering the important transitional phase of the eighteenth century."

--Journal of Art Historiography

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