Rediscovering Objects from Islamic Lands in Enlightenment Europe

Isabelle Dolezalek is Junior Professor of History of Art at the University of Greifswald, Germany.Mattia Guidetti is Senior Assistant Professor of History of Islamic Art at the University of Bologna, Italy.

• IntroductionIsabelle Dolezalek and Mattia Guidetti Part I: Changing Perceptions1. Changing Perceptions of Middle Eastern Objects and Cultures in Eighteenth-Century EuropeAnna Contadini 2. Reading Ottoman Banners in the State of the ChurchMattia Guidetti Part II: Protagonists3. Oluf Gerhard Tychsen: Orientalist and Object Interpreter in RostockIsabelle Dolezalek 4. Beyond Manuscripts: Maronite Christians as Object Interpreters in Early Modern EuropeTobias MörikePart III: Whose Heritage? 5. The "Baptistère de Saint Louis": The Making of a "Historical Monument"Carine Juvin6. "Nuestros árabes"? The Rediscovery of Spanish Islamic Architecture from an Enlightened GazeMiriam Cera Brea

"Dolezalek’s and Guidetti’s volume is a valuable and innovative contribution within this wider field, as it does indeed identify a gap of historiographic knowledge, particularly considering the important transitional phase of the eighteenth century."--Journal of Art Historiography