Mudejarismo and Moorish Revival in Europe

Francine Giese, Ph.D. (2004) and habilitation (2015), University of Bern, is director of Vitrocentre and Vitromusée Romont. From 2014-2019 she held a SNSF professorship at the Institute of Art History of the University of Zurich, where she led the research project Mudejarismo and Moorish Revival in Europe.

• AcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsList of FiguresNotes on ContributorsIntroduction: Towards a Comprehensive Understanding of Interconnected RealitiesFrancine GiesePART 1Between Fascination and Conflict1 Where Does Mudéjar Architecture Belong?Francine Giese2 When Warriors Become TeachersAlfonso x’s Cultural Endeavors and the Crusade IdeologyMichael A. Conrad3 “Ennobling Muslims and Jews”? The Instrumentalization of Mudéjar under the House of Trastámara 1369–1474Michael A. Conrad4 Reassessing the Moorish Revival in 19th- Century EuropeFrancine GiesePART 2Agents and Networks5 “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 CenturyMichael A. Conrad6 Beyond Kings and SultansVertical Diffusion and the Patrons of Urban Palaces in 14th-Century ToledoMichael A. Conrad7 Spanish Intellectuals of the 19th Century and Their Role for Knowledge Exchange Across EuropeChristian M. Schweizer8 Mentors, Patrons and Social NetworksThe Trajectories of Architects in a Globalized CenturyFrancine Giese9 Il Gusto MorescoAmateurs and Artists in Florence and Rome during the Second Half of the 19th CenturyAriane Varela BragaPART 3Artisans and Architects as Protagonists of Transcultural Exchange and Artistic Transfer10 An Interconnected WorldMudéjar Artisans and the Aristocracy in 15th-Century CastileLuis Araus Ballesteros11 Reproducing the AlhambraMonument Conservators and Artisans in GranadaFrancine Giese and Alejandro Jiménez Hernández12 Learning from Casts and ModelsSchools and Academies in 19th-Century Europe and the Specific Case of the Alhambra Collection in St. PetersburgKatrin Kaufmann, Ekaterina Savinova and Ariane Varela BragaPART 4Artistic Translations between Imagination, Politics and Ideology13 The Limits of OthernessDecoding the Entangled Heritage of Medieval IberiaFrancine Giese and Sarah Keller14 Political Ruptures and Artistic ContinuitiesPedro I, Enrique II and the First Trastámara Architecture in ContextElena Paulino Montero15 Oriental Carpets and Gothic WindowsStained Glass in Neo-Moorish ArchitectureSarah Keller16 The Alhambra as a Historicist Matrix for Museum DisplaysFrancine Giese and Ariane Varela Braga17 Stylistic Eclecticism and Its Oriental Languages Alhambrismo in St. PetersburgKatrin KaufmannPART 5Transmitting Islamic Aesthetics Across Centuries1Architectural Transformation18 The Fortune of the Court of the Lions and the Court of the DollsArtistic Translations and Processes of DecontextualizationFrancine Giese and Ariane Varela Braga19 Domes ReinventedChanging Meanings and Artistic Translations of Ibero-Islamic Rib and Muqarnas VaultsFrancine Giese20 The Hybridization of Sebka OrnamentFrancine Giese and Ariane Varela Braga2Transmateriality21 Revisiting the AlhambraTransmediality and Transmateriality in 19th-Century ItalyAriane Varela Braga22 Neo-Moorish CeilingsOn the Models and Materiality of Russian AlhambrismoKatrin Kaufmann23 Illuminating Transennae – A Technical ReinterpretationSarah KellerPART 6Epilogue24 An Endangered HeritageMudéjar and Neo-Moorish Architecture in 20th-Century EuropeFrancine Giese and Laura Álvarez AcostaAppendix1 Catalogue of 19th-Century Alhambra Casts and Models at the Scientific-Research Museum of the Russian Academy of Arts in St. PetersburgEkaterina SavinovaBibliographyIndex