Marco Folin, Ph.D. (2001), Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa, is Professor of History of Architecture at the University of Genoa. He has published several studies on Italian urban culture and the relationship between art and politics in the Renaissance. Monica Preti, Ph.D. (2004), European University Institute of Florence, is Head of Academic Programs at the Auditorium of Louvre Museum. She has published studies on the history of collecting (18th-19th centuries) and on the relationship between arts and literature in the Renaissance.

• ContentsPreface viiList of Table and Figures xvList of Contributors xix xxiPart 1The Representation of Urban Disasters in a Long-TermPerspective1 Transient Cities: Representations of Urban Destructions in EuropeanIconography in the Fourteenth to Seventeenth Centuries 3Marco Folin2 When Towns Collapse: Images of Earthquakes, Floods, and Eruptions inItaly in the Fifteenth to Nineteenth Centuries 33Emanuela GuidoboniPART 2Images of Ruination and Hopes for Redemption3 Urban Responses to Disaster in Renaissance Italy: Images andRituals 59Fabrizio Nevola4 In the Beginning, There was Fire: Vitruvius and the Origin of theCity 75Olga Medvedkova5 “Cities of Fire”: Iconographic Fortune, Taste and Circulation of FirePaintings between Flanders and Italy in the early SixteenthCentury 100Isabella di Lenardo6 The Destruction of the City: A Pledge of Salvation? Some Reflectionsabout Monsù Desiderio and the Genre of “Destruction Painting” 116Philippe MalgouyresPART 3Urban Disasters on Display: Art, Documentation, Remembrance7 Catastrophe and Photography as a “Double Reversal”: The 1908 Messinaand Reggio Earthquake and the Album of the Italian PhotographicSociety 137Tiziana Serena8 Meidner’s Urban Iconography: Optical Destruction and VisualApocalypse 164Sophie Goetzmann9 Destruction and Construction in Contemporary Art. Three Cases inTwentieth-Century Italy (Gibellina 1968, Friuli 1976, Napoli 1980) 179Alessandro Del PuppoIndex of Names 193Index of Places 203

Marco Folin, Ph.D. (2001), Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa, is Professor of History of Architecture at the University of Genoa. He has published several studies on Italian urban culture and the relationship between art and politics in the Renaissance. Monica Preti, Ph.D. (2004), European University Institute of Florence, is Head of Academic Programs at the Auditorium of Louvre Museum. She has published studies on the history of collecting (18th-19th centuries) and on the relationship between arts and literature in the Renaissance.

• ContentsPreface viiList of Table and Figures xvList of Contributors xix xxiPart 1The Representation of Urban Disasters in a Long-TermPerspective1 Transient Cities: Representations of Urban Destructions in EuropeanIconography in the Fourteenth to Seventeenth Centuries 3Marco Folin2 When Towns Collapse: Images of Earthquakes, Floods, and Eruptions inItaly in the Fifteenth to Nineteenth Centuries 33Emanuela GuidoboniPART 2Images of Ruination and Hopes for Redemption3 Urban Responses to Disaster in Renaissance Italy: Images andRituals 59Fabrizio Nevola4 In the Beginning, There was Fire: Vitruvius and the Origin of theCity 75Olga Medvedkova5 “Cities of Fire”: Iconographic Fortune, Taste and Circulation of FirePaintings between Flanders and Italy in the early SixteenthCentury 100Isabella di Lenardo6 The Destruction of the City: A Pledge of Salvation? Some Reflectionsabout Monsù Desiderio and the Genre of “Destruction Painting” 116Philippe MalgouyresPART 3Urban Disasters on Display: Art, Documentation, Remembrance7 Catastrophe and Photography as a “Double Reversal”: The 1908 Messinaand Reggio Earthquake and the Album of the Italian PhotographicSociety 137Tiziana Serena8 Meidner’s Urban Iconography: Optical Destruction and VisualApocalypse 164Sophie Goetzmann9 Destruction and Construction in Contemporary Art. Three Cases inTwentieth-Century Italy (Gibellina 1968, Friuli 1976, Napoli 1980) 179Alessandro Del PuppoIndex of Names 193Index of Places 203

Marco Folin, Ph.D. (2001), Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa, is Professor of History of Architecture at the University of Genoa. He has published several studies on Italian urban culture and the relationship between art and politics in the Renaissance. Monica Preti, Ph.D. (2004), European University Institute of Florence, is Head of Academic Programs at the Auditorium of Louvre Museum. She has published studies on the history of collecting (18th-19th centuries) and on the relationship between arts and literature in the Renaissance.

• ContentsPreface viiList of Table and Figures xvList of Contributors xix xxiPart 1The Representation of Urban Disasters in a Long-TermPerspective1 Transient Cities: Representations of Urban Destructions in EuropeanIconography in the Fourteenth to Seventeenth Centuries 3Marco Folin2 When Towns Collapse: Images of Earthquakes, Floods, and Eruptions inItaly in the Fifteenth to Nineteenth Centuries 33Emanuela GuidoboniPART 2Images of Ruination and Hopes for Redemption3 Urban Responses to Disaster in Renaissance Italy: Images andRituals 59Fabrizio Nevola4 In the Beginning, There was Fire: Vitruvius and the Origin of theCity 75Olga Medvedkova5 “Cities of Fire”: Iconographic Fortune, Taste and Circulation of FirePaintings between Flanders and Italy in the early SixteenthCentury 100Isabella di Lenardo6 The Destruction of the City: A Pledge of Salvation? Some Reflectionsabout Monsù Desiderio and the Genre of “Destruction Painting” 116Philippe MalgouyresPART 3Urban Disasters on Display: Art, Documentation, Remembrance7 Catastrophe and Photography as a “Double Reversal”: The 1908 Messinaand Reggio Earthquake and the Album of the Italian PhotographicSociety 137Tiziana Serena8 Meidner’s Urban Iconography: Optical Destruction and VisualApocalypse 164Sophie Goetzmann9 Destruction and Construction in Contemporary Art. Three Cases inTwentieth-Century Italy (Gibellina 1968, Friuli 1976, Napoli 1980) 179Alessandro Del PuppoIndex of Names 193Index of Places 203