Rediscovering Objects From Islamic Lands in Enlightenment Europe

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.

List of contents

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

About the author

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.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Isabelle Guidetti Dolezalek
• Assisted by: Isabelle Dolezalek (Editor), Mattia Guidetti (Editor), Guidetti Mattia (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.05.2024
• EAN: 9780367615956
• ISBN: 978-0-367-61595-6
• No. of pages: 174
• Series: Studies in Art Historiography
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; History of Art, Romanticism, Art & design styles: Romanticism, ART / History / European / Romanticism