Destroyed—Disappeared—Lost—Never Were

Beate Fricke is Professor of History of Art at the University of Bern. She is the author of Fallen Idols, Risen Saints: Saint Foy of Conques and the Revival of Monumental Sculpture in Medieval Art and coeditor of The Public in the Picture: Involving the Beholder in Antique, Islamic, Byzantine, and Western Medieval and Renaissance Art.Aden Kumler is Professor of Art History at the University of Basel. She is the author of Translating Truth: Ambitious Images and Religious Knowledge in Late Medieval France and England.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Destroyed—Disappeared—Lost—Never WereBeate Fricke and Aden Kumler1. Jerusalem’s Local Sancta and Their Perishable FramesMichele Bacci2. John Lloyd Stephens and the Lost Lintel of KabahClaudia Brittenham3. The Sanguine Art: Four FragmentsSonja Drimmer4. The Dreamwork of Positivism: Archaeological Art History and the Imaginative Restoration of the LostJaś Elsner5. Finding Delight in Gardens LostDanielle B. Joyner6. Impermanence, Futurity, and Loss in Twelfth-Century JapanKristopher W. Kersey7. Lonely Bones: Relics sans ReliquariesLena Liepe8. The Manuscript Machine: Assemblages andDivisions in Jazarī’s CompendiumMeekyung MacMurdie9. Cave and Camera: Shades of Loss in theLibrary Cave of DunhuangMichelle McCoy10. Mourning the Loss of Works / Praising Their Absence: A ResponsePeter GeimerList of Contributors

“Destroyed—Disappeared—Lost—Never Were is the sort of scholarship that begins to fill the literal lacunae cautiously avoided by premodern art historians for so long, but perhaps no longer.”—Elisa A. Foster caa.reviews