Research Catalog

Title

Emotions and architecture : forging Mediterranean cities between the Middle Ages and early modern time / edited by Francesca Lembo Fazio and Valentina Tomassetti.

Publication

• Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2024.
• ©2024

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Details

Additional Authors

• Lembo Fazio, Francesca
• Tomassetti, Valentina

Description

xix, 177 pages : illustrations, maps; 25 cm.

Summary

"Emotions and Architecture: Forging Mediterranean Cities Between the Middle Ages and Early Modern Time explores architecture as a medium to arouse or conceal emotions, to build consensus through shared values, or to reconnect the urban community to its alleged ancestry. The essays in this edited collection outline how architectonic symbols, images and structures were codified - and sometimes recast - to match or to arouse emotions awakened by wars, political dominance, pandemic challenges and religion. As signs of spiritual and political power, these elements were embraced and modulated locally, providing an endorsement to authorities and rituals for the community. This volume provides an overview of the phenomenon across the Italian region, stressing the transnationality of selected symbols and their various declination in local contexts. It deepens the issue of refitting symbols, artworks and structures to arouse emotions by carefully analysing specific cases, such as the Septizodium in Rome, The Holy House of Loreto in Venice and the reconstruction of L'Aquila. The collection, through its variegated contributions, offers a comprehensive view of the phenomenon: exploring the issue from political, social, religious and public health perspectives, and seeks to propose a new definition of architecture as a visual emotional language. Together, the essays show how the representation of virtues and emotions through architecture was part of a symbolic practice shared by many across the Italian context. This book will be of interest to researchers and students studying architectural history, the history of emotions, and the history of art"--

Series Statement

Routledge research in architectural history

Uniform Title

Routledge research in architectural history.

Subject

• Architecture > Italy > Psychological aspects
• Architecture and society > Italy > History
• Architecture and society
• Architecture > Psychological aspects
• Architecture
• Italy

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

The Geopolitics of Simulacra and the Seventeenth-Century Venetian Holy House of Loreto / Liv Deborah Walberg -- Mythmaking, Fidelity, and Urbanism in Early Modern Messina and Palermo / Tamara Morgenstern -- Architecture and Emotions in Early Modern Quarantine Centres / Marina Inì.

Call Number

JQE 24-533

ISBN

• 9781032412467
• 1032412461
• 9781032415635
• 1032415630

LCCN

2023035863

OCLC

1395424701

Title

Emotions and architecture : forging Mediterranean cities between the Middle Ages and early modern time / edited by Francesca Lembo Fazio and Valentina Tomassetti.

Publisher

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2024.

Copyright Date

©2024

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Routledge research in architectural history

Routledge research in architectural history.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Lembo Fazio, Francesca, editor.

Tomassetti, Valentina, editor.

Other Form:

Online version: Emotions and architecture Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2024 9781003358695 (DLC) 2023035864

Research Call Number

JQE 24-533