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An Early Muqarnas Plaster Ceiling in the Alhambra Palace, Granada
(Edinburgh University Press, 2025)This case study focuses on one of the earliest plaster muqarnas ceilings in the Alhambra. It is found in the mirador of the Partal, a building also known as the Torre de las Damas, that was built in the first decade of ... -
Cultivated and constructed memory in the Bonaria cemetery in Cagliari
(2021)A cemetery is a monument, or rather a collection of monuments, which serves to generate, reinforce, and perpetuate memories. However, that function cannot be easily defined in that it is complex, dynamic, and multifaceted. ... -
Redipuglia and the dead
(2017)Over a hundred thousand bodies are buried in the ossuary of Redipuglia. Created in north- eastern Italy under the fascist state in 1935–8, it is the largest burial site of the Great War worldwide.It encloses the remains ... -
Modern cemeteries in Europe and North America
(2022)Between the 1740s and the 1850s, changes in burial customs within Europe and North America had far-reaching consequences for funerary architecture. Those changes first emerged in France, Sweden, Italy, Scotland, and in the ... -
Feeling Political in Military Cemeteries: Commemoration Politics in Fascist Italy
(Palgrave, 2022)Rome, 28 October 2020: Italian neo-fascist groups meet, as they have done on this date for the last four years, at a chapel built by Benito Mussolini within Rome’s main cemetery in order to commemorate those who gave ... -
Questioning the idea of difficult heritage as applied to the architecture of Fascist Italy
(2023)Mussolini’s regime sought to change the mindset of Italians by shaping their environment through architecture and urban planning. As such, Fascism had a visible impact on Italian cities in the form of large urban projects, ... -
The Fallen Soldier as Fascist Exemplar: Military Cemeteries and Dead Heroes in Mussolini's Italy
(2022)This article aims to dissect the nature of exemplarity in Italian Fascism. The social and political structures that emerged in Fascist Italy were highly reliant on a sense of morality, largely because of the degree of ... -
Il fascismo, la Grande Guerra e i monumenti ai caduti
(2017)L’ossario di Redipuglia in Friuli raccoglie le salme di oltre centomila soldati italiani che caddero combattendo al fronte (Dogliani 1996; Fabi 2002; Fiore 2003; Nicoloso 2012, 94–7). È il più grande luogo di sepoltura ... -
Marcello Piacentini: A case of controversial heritage
(2018)As the most prominent architect and urban designer of Italy’s fascist regime, Marcello Piacentini (1881–1960) left an indelible mark on numerous cities across Italy. Nonetheless, his reception has been marred by controversy. ... -
Redefining peace: Fascist Italy and fallen soldiers of the First World War
(2022)Italy’s Fascist regime exploited the difficulties that arose from the transition to peace after the First World War. As a highly contested event, the war destabilised Italy’s liberal state and paved the way for Benito ... -
Teaching the Difficult Heritage of Italian Fascism
(2023)In recent years, the architectural legacy and so-called ‘difficult heritage’ of Fascist Italy has become a flourishing field of research. These topics have also begun to make their way into the undergraduate classroom. ... -
Architecture, Politics and the Sacred in Military Monuments of Fascist Italy
(Bloomsbury, 2020)Benito Mussolini’s Fascist regime in Italy served its political ends through architecture that was at once sacred and modern. This chapter explores that conjunction of religion and modernity through a group of ossuaries ... -
The Decorative Wooden Ceilings of Nasrid Granada and the Alhambra
(2024)This article examines the role of Nasrid Granada in the development and spread of decorative wooden ceilings or artesonados in the late medieval and early modern periods. It argues that it was in the intensive building ... -
Costume and Practice: Evolution in Design and Use of the Chancellor's and Pro-Chancellor's Robes at the University of Dublin, Trinity College (1800-2020)
(2023)The University of Dublin is the degree-awarding body for Trinity College, Dublin and maintains a long tradition of academic dress and ceremonial. Commencements are formal meetings of the Senate chaired by the Chancellor ... -
MIDDLE EASTERN CRAFTS: YESTERDAY, TODAY, TOMORROW, VICTORIA & ALBERT MUSEUM, OCTOBER 11-12, 2018
(2020)Craft is having a moment – the international market for contemporary craft is more buoyant than ever, with record trade figures and increasingly high-profile exhibitions and publications.1 But contemporary craft from the ... -
Mudéjar and the Alhambresque: Spanish Pavilions at the Universal Expositions and the Invention of a National Style
(2017)Spain's complex relationship with its Islamic architectural heritage was brought into particular focus through the prism of its national pavilions that were built for the Universal Expositions of the late nineteenth and ... -
Versions and visions of the Alhambra in the nineteenth-century Ottoman world
(2015)The Alhambra as a source of inspiration for Western architects in the nineteenth century is well known and has been thoroughly documented. But “alhambresque” style was not just an Orientalist exoticism in the West. It ... -
Four wooden ceilings from the Torrijos Palace, Toledo
(2023)Prior to the demolition around 1917 of the late fifteenth-century palace built in Torrijos, near Toledo, for Gutierre de Cárdenas, a prominent soldier and courtier, and his wife, Teresa Enríquez, four intricate painted ... -
Dublin Castle Chapel before 1807
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Permanent expressions of piety: the secular and the sacred in later medieval stone sculpture
(Four Courts Press, 2006)
