Mudejarismo and Moorish Revival in Europe Cultural Negotiations and Artistic Translations in the Middle Ages and 19th-century Historicism

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Mudejarismo and Moorish Revival in Europe offers a critical examination of the reception of Ibero-Islamic architecture in medieval Iberia and 19th-century Europe. Taking selected case studies as a starting point, the volume challenges prevalent readings of interconnected cultural and artistic phenomena. Contents Acknowledgments Abbreviations List of Figures Notes on Contributors Introduction: Towards a Comprehensive Understanding of Interconnected Realities • Francine Giese Part 1: Between Fascination and Conflict 1 Where Does Mudéjar Architecture Belong? • Francine Giese 2 When Warriors Become Teachers: Alfonso X’s Cultural Endeavors and the Crusade Ideology • Michael A. Conrad 3 “Ennobling Muslims and Jews”? The Instrumentalization of Mudéjar under the House of Trastámara 1369–1474 • Michael A. Conrad 4 Reassessing the Moorish Revival in 19th-century Europe • Francine Giese Part 2: Agents and Networks 5 “Oh, You Seeker of Knowledge! This is Its Gate Opened Wide...” The Transcultural Networks of Patrons, Artists, Scholars, Writers and Diplomats Between Medieval Iberia and North Africa in the 14th Century • Michael A. Conrad 6 Beyond Kings and Sultans: Vertical Diffusion and the Patrons of Urban Palaces in 14th-century Toledo • Michael A. Conrad 7 Spanish Intellectuals of the 19th Century and Their Role for Knowledge Exchange Across Europe • Christian M. Schweizer 8 Mentors, Patrons and Social Networks: The Trajectories of Architects in a Globalized Century • Francine Giese 9 Il Gusto Moresco: Amateurs and Artists in Florence and Rome during the Second Half of the 19th Century • Ariane Varela Braga Part 3: Artisans and Architects as Protagonists of Transcultural Exchange and Artistic Transfer 10 An Interconnected World: Mudéjar Artisans and the Aristocracy in 15th-century Castile • Luis Araus Ballesteros 11 Reproducing the Alhambra: Monument Conservators and Artisans in Granada • Francine Giese and Alejandro Jiménez Hernández 12 Learning from Casts and Models: Schools and Academies in 19th-century Europe and the Specific Case of the Alhambra Collection in St. Petersburg • Katrin Kaufmann, Ekaterina Savinova and Ariane Varela Braga Part 4: Artistic Translations between Imagination, Politics and Ideology 13 The Limits of Otherness: Decoding the Entangled Heritage of Medieval Iberia • Francine Giese and Sarah Keller 14 Political Ruptures and Artistic Continuities: Pedro i, Enrique ii and the First Trastámara Architecture in Context • Elena Paulino Montero 15 Oriental Carpets and Gothic Windows: Stained Glass in Neo-Moorish Architecture • Sarah Keller 16 The Alhambra as a Historicist Matrix for Museum Displays • Francine Giese and Ariane Varela Braga 17 Stylistic Eclecticism and its Oriental Languages: Alhambrismo in St. Petersburg • Katrin Kaufmann Part 5: Transmitting Islamic Aesthetics Across Centuries 1 Architectural Transformation 18 The Fortune of the Court of the Lions and the Court of the Dolls: Artistic Translations and Processes of Decontextualization • Francine Giese and Ariane Varela Braga 19 Domes Reinvented: Changing Meanings and Artistic Translations of Ibero-Islamic Rib and Muqarnas Vaults • Francine Giese 20 The Hybridization of Sebka Ornament • Francine Giese and Ariane Varela Braga 2 Transmateriality 21 Revisiting the Alhambra: Transmediality and Transmateriality in 19th-century Italy • Ariane Varela Braga 22 Neo-Moorish Ceilings: On the Models and Materiality of Russian Alhambrismo • Katrin Kaufmann 23 Illuminating Transennae – A Technical Reinterpretation • Sarah Keller Part 6: Epilogue 24 An Endangered Heritage: Mudéjar and Neo-Moorish Architecture in 20th-century Europe • Francine Giese and Laura Álvarez Acosta Appendix 1 Catalogue of 19th-century Alhambra Casts and Models at the Scientific-Research Museum of the Russian Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg • Ekaterina Savinova Bibliography Index of Persons Index of Places