Title: Visual constructs of Jerusalem /
Authors: Pickett, Jordan,; Ousterhout, Robert G.,; Kühnel, Bianca,; Noga-Banai, Galit, 1966-; Vorholt, Hanna,
Year: 2014
Subjects: Christian art and symbolism Congresses; Jewish art and symbolism Congresses.; Architecture Jerusalem Congresses.; Visual communication; Communication in architecture.; Church architecture Jerusalem.; Church architecture Europe.; Sacred space Jerusalem.; Sacred space Europe.; Christian art and symbolism Jerusalem.; Christian art and symbolism Europe; Palestine Maps Early works to 1800.; Jerusalem History Congresses.; Jerusalem In art Congresses.; Jerusalem Buildings, structures, etc. Congresses.; Jerusalem Symbolic representation.; Palestine Maps Early works to 1800.; Jerusalem History.; Palestine Maps.
Abstract: "The special position of Jerusalem among the cities of the world stems from a long history shared by the three Abrahamic religions, and the belief that the city reflected a heavenly counterpart. Because of this unique combination, Jerusalem is generally seen as extending along a vertical axis stretching between past, present, and future. However, through its many ‘earthly’ representations, Jerusalem has an equally important horizontal dimension: it is represented elsewhere in all media, from two-dimensional maps to monumental renderings of the architecture and topography of the city’s loca sancta. In documenting the increasing emphasis on studying the earthly proliferations of the city, the current book witnesses a shift in theoretical and methodological insights since the publication of The Real and Ideal Jerusalem in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Art in 1998. Its main focus is on European translations of Jerusalem in images, objects, places, and spaces that evoke the city through some physical similarity or by denomination and cult - all visual and material aids to commemoration and worship from afar. The book discusses both well-known and long-neglected examples, the forms of cult they generate and the virtual pilgrimages they serve, and calls attention to their written and visual equivalents and companions. In so doing, it opens a whole new vista onto the summa of representations of Jerusalem."--
Contents: Patronage Contested: Archaeology and the Early Modern Struggle for Possession at the Church of the Nativity, Bethlehem / Jordan Pickett -- Visualizing the Tomb of Christ: Images, Settings, and Ways of Seeing / Robert Ousterhout.