Courting the Alhambra

Cross-Disciplinary Approaches to the Hall of Justice Ceilings
Erscheinungsjahr 2008
ISBN: 978-90-04-17342-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, 290 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 476 g

The ceiling paintings in the Hall of Justice of the Alhambra have not received serious scholarly attention for the past thirty years, perhaps due to their difficult incorporation into a discrete program of Christian vs. Islamic art, categories that until recently remained unchallenged themselves. The Alhambra itself continues to elicit the interest of many scholars, and several recent interpretations of the function of the Palace of the Lions, which houses the paintings, have been put forth. This collection brings together art historians, literary critics and historians who suggest new ways of approaching the paintings through their immediate social, historical, architectural and literary contexts, proposing a porous and flexible model for the production of culture in Iberia.
Contributors are Jerrylin Dodds, Ana Echevarria, Jennifer Borland, Rosa María Rodríguez Porto, Oscar Martin, Amanda Luyster, Cynthia Robinson and Simone Pinet.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Robinson, Cynthia

Pinet, Simone

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstformen, Kunsthandwerk Malerei: Gemälde
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Simone Pinet and Cynthia Robinson, Introduction
Cynthia Robinson, Arthur in the Alhambra? Narrative and Nasrid Courtly Self-Fashioning in the Hall of Justice Ceiling Paintings
Ana Echevarria, Painting Politics in the Alhambra
Rosa María Rodríguez Porto, Courtliness and its Trujumanes: Manufacturing Chivalric Imagery across the Castilian–Grenadine
Frontier
Jerrilynn D. Dodds, Hunting in the Borderlands
Jennifer Borland, The Forested Frontier: Commentary in the Margins of the Alhambra Ceiling Paintings
Amanda Luyster, Cross-Cultural Style in the Alhambra: Textiles, Identity and Origins
Simone Pinet, Walk on the Wild Side
Oscar Martín, Allegories of Love: The Alhambra Ceilings and The Evolution of Sentimental Fiction

Über Autor(innen)

Cynthia Robinson, Ph. D. (1996), Art History and Near Eastery Studies, U. of Penn., is Associate Professor of Art History, Near Eastern Studies and Medieval Studies at Cornell University. She has published extensively on the visual and literary cultures of medieval Iberia.
Simone Pinet, Ph.D. (2002) in Hispanic Literatures, Harvard University, is Associate Professor of Spanish and Medieval Studies at Cornell University. She has published extensively on medieval and Golden Age literatures, cartography, and culture.