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.

Introduction

Isabelle Dolezalek and Mattia Guidetti

Part I: Changing Perceptions

1. Changing Perceptions of Middle Eastern Objects and Cultures in Eighteenth-Century Europe

Anna Contadini

2. Reading Ottoman Banners in the State of the Church

Mattia Guidetti

Part II: Protagonists

3. Oluf Gerhard Tychsen: Orientalist and Object Interpreter in Rostock

Isabelle Dolezalek

4. Beyond Manuscripts: Maronite Christians as Object Interpreters in Early Modern Europe

Tobias Mörike

Part III: Whose Heritage?

5. The "Baptistère de Saint Louis": The Making of a "Historical Monument"

Carine Juvin

6. "Nuestros árabes"? The Rediscovery of Spanish Islamic Architecture from an Enlightened Gaze

Miriam Cera Brea