Dalmatia and the Mediterranean

Alina Payne is Alexander P. Misheff Professor of History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University. Recently she published From Ornament to Object. Genealogies of Architectural Modernism (YUP 2012) and The Telescope and the Compass. Teofilo Gallaccini and the Dialogue between Architecture and Science in the Age of Galileo (Olschki 2012). She received the Max Planck and Alexander von Humboldt Prize in the Humanities (2006)Contributors include: Doris Behrens-Abouseif, SOAS, University of London; Joško Belamarić, Institute of Art History, Split; Marzia Faietti, Uffizi, Florence; Jasenka Gudelj, University of Zagreb; Cemal Kafadar, Harvard University; Ioli Kalavrezou, Harvard University; Suzanne Marchand, State University of Louisiana; Erika Naginski, Harvard University; Gülru Necipoğlu, Harvard University; Goran Nikšić, City of Split, Split; Alina Payne, Harvard University; Avinoam Shalem, Columbia University and David Young Kim, University of Pennsylvania

• Introduction Alina Payne, Harvard UniversityI. Mobility and History1. “The View from the Land: Austrian Art Historians and the Interpretation of Croatian Art” Suzanne Marchand, University of Louisiana2. “Evliya Çelebi in Dalmatia. An Ottoman Gentleman’s Encounter with the Arts of the Franks”Cemal Kafadar, Harvard University3. “The Imprimatur of Decadence: Robert Adam and the Imperial Palatine Tradition” Erika Naginski, Harvard UniversityII. The Mediterranean Imagination4. “From Solomon’s Temple to Hagia Sophia: A Metaphorical Journey for Andrea Mantegna” Marzia Faietti, Gabinetto dei Disegni e Stampe Uffizi, Florence5. “The Thin White Line. Palladio, White Cities and the Adriatic Imagination” Alina Payne, Harvard University6. “Hospitality and Hostility in Sixteenth Century Art Literary Sources on the Mediterranean”David Young Kim, University of Pennsylvania III. Things That Move: Textiles7. “The Byzantine Peplos in Genova: ‘The Object as Event’” Ioli Kalavrezou, Harvard University8. “The Architecture for the Body: Some Reflections on the Mobility of Textiles and the Fate of the So-Called Chasuble of Saint Thomas Becket in the Cathedral of Fermo in Italy” Avinoam Shalem, University of Munich9. “Cloth and Geography. Townplanning and Architectural Aspects of the First Industry in Dubrovnik in the Fifteenth Century” Joško Belamarić, Institute of Art History, SplitIV. Portability and Networks10. “Connectivity, Mobility, and Mediterranean ‘Portable Archaeology’: Pashas from the Dalmatian Hinterland as Cultural Mediators” Gülru Necipoğlu, Harvard University11. “The Influence of Building Materials on Architectural Design. Dalmatian Stone at the Cathedrals in Korčula and Šibenik” Goran Nikšić, Sopraintendenza, Split12. “Between Quarry and Magic: The Selective Approach to Spolia in the Islamic Monuments of Medieval Egypt” Doris Behrens-Abouseif, SOAS, University of London13. “The King of Naples Emulates Salvia Postuma? The Arch of Castel Nuovo in Naples and Its Antique Model” Jasenka Gudelj, University of Zagreb