Seminar
Al-Andalus in the Age of Enlightenment
Antigüedades árabes de España
Andrew Schulz, University of Oregon
Published in 1787 by the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Madrid, Antigüedades árabes de España [Arab Antiquities of Spain] stands as a crucial, yet largely unexamined milestone in the reception history of Islamic art and architecture in Spain. This paper offers a close look at the representational strategies employed in its thirty-one large-scale engravings and argues that, in disciplining the ‘unruly’ forms of Islamic architecture, the series works to integrate the monuments of al-Andalus into the framework of a Spanish national artistic tradition under construction at this time.
Andrew Schulz is Associate Professor of 18- and 19-Century Art at the University of Oregon. He is a specialist in the art of Spain and the Spanish world with a particular interest in the role of visual culture in the construction of imperial and national identity in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. This talk is drawn from a book-length work-in-progress entitled Al-Andalus in the Age of Enlightenment: Islamic Art and Culture in the Spanish Imagination. It is hosted by the Islam and Enlightenment Research Group and the School of Historical Studies at the University of Melbourne.
- Date:
- Thursday 25th September 2008
- Time:
- 5.30pm
- Location:
- Jessie Webb Library
Level 3, John Medley Building
University of Melbourne - Enquiries:
- Ian Coller
icoller@unimelb.edu.au
(+61 3) 8344 4658