Early Modern Architecture and Whiteness

Dijana O. Apostolski is an architectural historian studying premodern histories of architectural design in relation to histories of the body, materials, and matter. She is a lecturer at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.Aaron White is an architectural historian studying premodern architecture in its relation to empire. He is an assistant professor at Mississippi State University.

• Part 1 Constructing the Racialized Body 1. St. Francis/San Francesco: White, Incorrupt, Divine 2. The Man of Swarthy Complexion: From Bernini’s Biographies to the (De)construction of Color 3. "The Dead Body of a Moor": Michelangelo, Anatomy, and Racecraft in Sixteenth-Century Rome 4. "To Blanch an Aethiop": Inigo Jones, Queen Anna, and the Staging of Whiteness Part 2 Constructing the Racialized Body-Politic 5. Whitewashing Legibility: Property Surveys and the Logic of Colonial Whiteness in Eighteenth-Century Senegal 6. Muiscas and Moriscos from within the Spanish Grid: Privileged Mixed-Blood Settlers in the Foundational Records of Villa de Leyva (Colombia, 1572–1582) and Campillo de Arenas (Spain, 1508–1539) 7. The Appropriation of Mexican Indigenous Material Culture: Architecture, Urban Design, and Antiquarianism in Eighteenth-Century Mexico, Spain, and Italy 8. The Whiteness of Antiquity and Salvation: Tullio Lombardo, Gianmaria Falconetto, and the Saint Anthony Chapel in Padua