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{"title":"The Babylonian Origins of Trier","authors":"Hubertus Günther","doi":"10.1163/9789004378216_022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004378216_022","url":null,"abstract":"Isidore of Seville complains: ‘Concerning the question of by whom a city was founded, disagreement is a common thing, so that even the origin of the city of Rome cannot be established with certainty’.1 In Trier, the memory of the fact that the city was temporarily one of the capital cities of the Roman Empire led to the construction of a legendary prehistory which was to surpass that of all cities, except perhaps Rome, with age and grandeur. This circumstance is well known and has often been investigated. In this contribution I will summarize how the legend of the founding of Trier developed in the course of the Middle Ages and how the humanists of the Renaissance reacted to it; finally, I will touch upon the rather delicate question of the ideas of architectural history behind such an early dating.","PeriodicalId":104280,"journal":{"name":"The Quest for an Appropriate Past in Literature, Art and Architecture","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123626300","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"History and Architecture in Pursuit of a Gothic Heritage","authors":"Kristoffer Neville","doi":"10.1163/9789004378216_023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004378216_023","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":104280,"journal":{"name":"The Quest for an Appropriate Past in Literature, Art and Architecture","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125122370","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Translating the Past: Local Romanesque Architecture in Germany and Its Fifteenth-Century Reinterpretation","authors":"S. Hoppe","doi":"10.1163/9789004378216_021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004378216_021","url":null,"abstract":"The early history of northern Renaissance architecture has long been presented as being the inexorable occurrence of an almost viral dissemination of Italian Renaissance forms and motifs.1 For the last two decades, however, the interconnected and parallel histories of enfolding Renaissance humanism have produced new analytical models of reciprocal exchange and of an actively creative reception of knowledge, ideas, and texts yet to be adopted more widely by art historical research.2 In what follows, the focus will be on a particular part of the history of early German Renaissance architecture, i.e. on the new engagement with the historical – and by then long out-of-date – world of Romanesque architectural style and its possible connections to emerging Renaissance historiography","PeriodicalId":104280,"journal":{"name":"The Quest for an Appropriate Past in Literature, Art and Architecture","volume":"59 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121025024","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"An Appropriate Past for Renaissance Portugal: André de Resende and the City of Évora","authors":"Nuno Senos","doi":"10.1163/9789004378216_007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004378216_007","url":null,"abstract":"From the mid-fifteenth century, in the period that we call the Renaissance, various Portuguese literati, artists, and thinkers-at-large began to ponder their country’s past. The predominant lens through which most of us have been taught to look at the Renaissance shows that such historical roots were sought in Roman times. However, as the present volume makes clear, the relationship between the past and the men at the dawn of the early modern age was a more nuanced and complex one. In this chapter, I shall look at this relationship through the case of Évora, a former Roman city and the seat of a palaeo-Christian bishopric (dating back at least to the early fourth century), which had perished during the times of the Muslim domain over the Iberian Peninsula (from 711 AD onwards) but had been revived during the Reconquista, after which point the city (conquered by Christian troops in 1165) became one of the crown’s favourites, and therefore a favourite of the aristocracy as well.1 The combination of all of these factors granted Évora a very central place in the Renaissance construction of a past for Portugal. Of paramount importance in such an endeavour was the work of Évoraborn humanist André de Resende (ca. 1500–1573), which provides a fine example of the intricacies involved.2 Resende was educated in Alcalá de Henares and Salamanca, and he spent most of the first three decades of his life","PeriodicalId":104280,"journal":{"name":"The Quest for an Appropriate Past in Literature, Art and Architecture","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121952006","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Preserving the Nation’s Zeal: Church Buildings and English Christian History in Stuart England","authors":"A. Morel","doi":"10.1163/9789004378216_026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004378216_026","url":null,"abstract":"Henry VIII’s break with the Roman Catholic Church not only created the National Church of England but left this newly established state Church with a historical vacuum. While the dissolution of monasteries and the iconoclastic ‘cleansing’ of churches took place in the first decades after 1534 and later during the Civil War, the establishment of a Church with firm English roots remained uncertain until the end of the seventeenth century. This situation had consequences for church architecture reaching well beyond iconoclasm. As the study of sermons preached upon the occasion of the consecration of churches during the Stuart period has demonstrated, the status, function, and architecture of the church building were heavily debated.1 After Henry VIII’s break with Rome church historians started to rewrite the history of Christianity in England. But one had to wait until the seventeenth century for the discussion on the architecture of the church building as a dignified and monumental expression of the English Church. Only then did architects and theologians dig into antiquarian studies in order to define the status of and reflect upon the architecture of church buildings in the Church of England. The roots of the Church of England were established in biblical history, early Christianity, and England’s Anglo-Saxon and medieval past, three major sets of referents which would also be materialized in various church-building projects, not least in the official church-building campaign of 1711. Biblical and early Christian history played a fundamental role in establishing the historical lineage of the Church of England as stretching back to the very wellspring of Christianity. These references were part of a common set of referents shared by all Christian churches, reformed or not, and hence they","PeriodicalId":104280,"journal":{"name":"The Quest for an Appropriate Past in Literature, Art and Architecture","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122026276","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Construction of a National Past in the Bella Britannica by Humbert of Montmoret (d. ca. 1525)","authors":"T. Haye","doi":"10.1163/9789004378216_008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004378216_008","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":104280,"journal":{"name":"The Quest for an Appropriate Past in Literature, Art and Architecture","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128058746","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"‘Sine amore, sine odio partium’: Nicolaus Burgundius’ Historia Belgica (1629) and his Tacitean Quest for an Appropriate Past","authors":"M. Laureys","doi":"10.1163/9789004378216_017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004378216_017","url":null,"abstract":"From the 16th century onwards, Tacitus drew ever more attention for the help he could provide in coming to terms with the various turbulences and upheavals of the early modern age. Humanist scholars, such as Marcus Antonius Muretus and Justus Lipsius, observed a striking resemblance between the politics of the early principate, narrated by Tacitus, and their own times. For 16thand 17th-century readers of Tacitus the turmoils, machinations and rebellions he evoked looked very familiar. This avowed similarity carried further implications. The historical constellations described by Tacitus could serve as a reference framework to interpret and legitimate contemporary political events, circumstances and developments. In order to understand the present, the history depicted by Tacitus could be adduced as an appropriate past. In this context Tacitus exerted a double influence. In the field of political theory and philosophy he was a source of inspiration for a variety of political currents and theories, supporting either republican or princely rule. In terms of language and style, moreover, Tacitus offered a standard that was felt to be perfectly suitable to the political discourse of early modern times, not least in the political communication between a ruler and the advisors and attendants in his court. Tacitus was advanced – most prominently by Justus Lipsius – as a model author who perfectly illustrated the techniques of simulatio and dissimulatio (Tacitus, Annales, 4, 71, 3) as well as the characteristics of the ‘imperatoria brevitas’ (Tacitus, Historiae, 1, 18, 2). The Low Countries, torn apart in the 16th century by political and religious conflicts, provided ample opportunities for observation and analysis through a Tacitean framework. Tacitus’ description (in Books 4 and 5 of his Historiae) of the Batavian uprising, led by Julius Civilis, against Rome almost invited comparison with the Dutch Revolt. The rebellion of the northern provinces of the Low Countries against Spanish rule, was from the very beginning observed and recorded by humanist literati, diplomats, and merchants from various parts of","PeriodicalId":104280,"journal":{"name":"The Quest for an Appropriate Past in Literature, Art and Architecture","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128765379","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"‘Non erubescat Hollandia’: Classical Embarrassment of Riches and the Construction of Local History in Hadrianus Junius’ Batavia","authors":"C. Maas","doi":"10.1163/9789004378216_015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004378216_015","url":null,"abstract":"At least since 1987, when Simon Schama published his famous study The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age, it has been well known that there was a strong connection between notions of wealth and collective identity in the early modern Low Countries, or at least in Holland.1 In this book, the incomparable wealth and the boundless consumerism in the young Dutch Republic are contrasted with the dominant moralist discourse of the seventeenth century – a discourse that was often hostile to avarice, luxury, and wasting money. According to Schama, this paradoxical phenomenon is at odds with Max Weber’s famous thesis that Calvinism denounced consumerism, praised a strong work ethic, and regarded wealth as a confirmation of God’s benevolence, that in doing so it created favourable conditions for investment as an alternative to consumption, and that it thus contributed to the rise of capitalism.2 Schama argued that this theory does not explain the situation in the seventeenth-century Dutch Republic very well, because despite the dominance of Calvinism, the Dutch Republic witnessed a strong consumerist culture. Moreover, Calvinism was far from unique in its critique of wealth. Most importantly, however, Calvinists often criticized","PeriodicalId":104280,"journal":{"name":"The Quest for an Appropriate Past in Literature, Art and Architecture","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123058176","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"From Chivalric Family Tree to “National” Gallery: The Portrait Series of the Counts of Holland, ca. 1490–1650","authors":"K. Enenkel","doi":"10.1163/9789004378216_012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004378216_012","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":104280,"journal":{"name":"The Quest for an Appropriate Past in Literature, Art and Architecture","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125031788","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Tradition and Originality in Raphael: The Stanza della Segnatura, the Middle Ages and Local Traditions","authors":"D. Rijser","doi":"10.1163/9789004378216_006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004378216_006","url":null,"abstract":"However much has changed in Renaissance studies, the iconicity of Raphael’s School of Athens in the Vatican Stanze tenaciously continues to hold sway, even when scholars seemingly undermine it by innovative research. Thus a recent attempt to explore undeniably new ways of looking at functions and versions of the past in Renaissance culture eventually cedes to ‘the compulsion to end the account with Raphael’.1 Concluding their study of the interaction between the “substitutional” (that is, art independent of time, author and style but as an instance in a chain of replicas) and the “performative” (art as authorial enunciation) in Quattrocento artistic production, Nagel and Wood in Anachronic Renaissance present a Raphael rightly seen à cheval. Stunningly innovative and stylistically individualized as Raphael’s frescoes were, they were in fact positioned within a traditional context of a (pseudo-) mosaic ceiling and a (neo-) cosmatesque pavement, a defining frame the modern viewer all too easily blocks out of view, concentrating instead on the frescoes as easelpieces.2 Yet if Raphael’s art indeed advanced a highly individual artistic claim for excellence, it did so quite consciously within a monumental context that played the old game of reproducing form including its “atmosphere” that was as highly traditional [Fig. 4.1]. The authenticating function of “substitution” as construed by recent scholarship is surely relevant for the search for an appropriate past studied in this volume.3 The recreation of ambience and concomitant content was the essential tool with which to manipulate visitors and viewers of representative space","PeriodicalId":104280,"journal":{"name":"The Quest for an Appropriate Past in Literature, Art and Architecture","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127460979","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}