Romanesque Renaissance: Carolingian, Byzantine and Romanesque Buildings (800-1200) as a Source for New All'Antica Architecture in Early Modern Europe (1400-1700)

✍ Scribed by Konrad Ottenheym (editor)

• Publisher: Brill
• Year: 2021
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 456
• Series: Niki Studies in Netherlandish-Italian Art History; 14
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

In early modern times scholars and architects investigated age-old buildings in order to look for useful sources of inspiration. They too, occasionally misinterpreted younger buildings as proofs of majestic Roman or other ancient glory, such as the buildings of the Carolingian, Ottonian and Stauffer emperors. But even if the correct age of a certain building was known, buildings from c. 800–1200 were sometimes regarded as ‘Antique’ architecture, since the concept of ‘Antiquity’ was far more stretched than our modern periodisation allows. This was a Europe-wide phenomenon. The results are rather diverse in style, but they all share an intellectual and artistic strategy: a conscious revival of an ‘ancient’ architecture — whatever the date and origin of these models.

Contributors: Barbara Arciszewska, Lex Bosman, Ian Campbell, Eliana Carrara, Bianca de Divitiis, Krista De Jonge, Emanuela Ferretti, Emanuela Garofalo, Stefaan Grieten, Hubertus Günther, Stephan Hoppe, Sanne Maekelberg, Kristoffer Neville, Marco Rosario Nobile, Konrad Ottenheym, Stefano Piazza, and Richard Schofield.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Director’s Remarks
Romanesque Renaissance – Introduction
Part 1 Romanesque Architecture and the Venerable Past of the Church and the Realm
Chapter 1 Il ruolo della memoria normanna nella cultura architettonica siciliana della prima età moderna
Chapter 2 Tra mito e modello. Le cattedrali normanne nell’architettura religiosa del Cinquecento inItalia meridionale
Chapter 3 Le cupole in pietra a vista nel primo Cinquecento in Sicilia
Chapter 4 Memory of the Romanesque in Renaissance Southern Italy: From Paper to Stone
Chapter 5 The Scottish Romanesque Revival Revisited (Again)
Chapter 6 Polish Architecture ‘more vetusto … murata’: References to Romanesque Buildings in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth before 1600
Chapter 7 Romanesque Reconstructions: The Revival of Liège in the Early Sixteenth Century
Chapter 8 Matters of Representation: On the Revival of the Early Mediaeval Keep in Brabant during the Early Modern Period
Chapter 9 A Deconstruction of San Michele in Isola in Venice
Part 2 Romanesque Architecture as Imaginary Antiquity
Chapter 10 Il Battistero di Firenze nella storiografia medicea tra Cosimo I e Francesco I
Chapter 11 Byzantine Cupolas and the Myth of the ‘Ancient Origins’ of Venice
Chapter 12 Architecture and Early Humanism at German Princely Courts: Lower Bavaria, Salzburg and Passau and the Romanesque Renaissance (c. 1480–1500)
Chapter 13 The ‘Pagan Chapel’: St Nicolas’ Chapel at Nijmegen and Other Romanesque Rotundas Regarded as Ancient Temples
Chapter 14 Roman or Romanesque? Confusion about the Putative Temple of Apollo in Maastricht
Chapter 15 Text and Form: The Beginnings of Architectural History and Architectural Aesthetics in the Far North
Index