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Wounded Cities : The Representation of Urban Disasters in European Art (14th-20th Centuries)

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Natural hazards punctuate the history of European towns, moulding their shape and identity: this book is devoted to the artistic representation of those calamities, from the late Middle Ages to the 20th century. It contains nine case studies which discuss, among others, the relationship between biblical imagery and the realistic depiction of urban disasters; the religious, political and ritual meanings of "destruction subjects" in early modern painting; the image of fire in Renaissance treatises on architecture; the first photographic campaigns documenting earthquakes' damages; the role of contemporary art in the elaboration of a cultural memory of urban destructions. Thus, this book intends to address one of the main issues of Western civilization: the relationship of European towns with their own past and its discontinuities.
Contributors are Alessandro Del Puppo, Isabella di Lenardo, Marco Folin, Sophie Goetzmann, Emanuela Guidoboni, Philippe Malgouyres, Olga Medvedkova, Fabrizio Nevola, Monica Preti and Tiziana Serena.

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  • ISBN-13: 9789004284913
  • ISBN-10: 9004284915
  • Publisher: Brill
  • Publish Date: June 2015
  • Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.3 x 0.6 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
  • Page Count: 206

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