Forging Architectural Tradition
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During the nineteenth century, a change developed in the way architectural objects from the distant past were viewed by contemporaries. Such edifices, be they churches, castles, chapels or various other buildings, were not only admired for their aesthetic values, but also for the role they played in ancient times, and their role as reminders of important events from the national past. Architectural heritage often was (and still is) an important element of nation building. Authors address the process of building national myths around certain architectural objects. National narratives are questioned, as is the position architectural heritage played in the nineteenth and the early twentieth centuries.
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Dragan Damjanovic works as a full professor at the Art History Department, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, Croatia, teaching and researching history of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Croatian and European art and architecture.
Content
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Introduction: Forging Architectural Tradition
Aleksander Lupienkö
Part I: Architectural Conservation and National Narratives¿¿
Chapter 1. The Cathedral of Citizenship: Race and National Identity in Eugène Viollet-le-Duc's Work and Discourse
Bérénice Gaussuin¿¿
Chapter 2. Identity Written in Stone?: Gothicising Renovation of Estonian Churches at a Second Glance
Kristina Jõekaldä¿
Chapter 3. Architecture as a Weapon: The Gothic and the National Ideal in Nineteenth-Century Polish Discourse
Aleksander Lupienkö¿
Chapter 4. Before and After Emile-André Lecomte du Nouÿ or the Birth of National Style in Romanian Architecture
Anda-Lucia Spânu
Chapter 5. On the Articulation and Popularization of Christian Built Heritage: Representing National Continuity in Nineteenth-Century Athens
Georgios Karatzas
Part II: Styles for the Nation and State
¿¿Chapter 6. Creating a Monument to Kaiser Wilhelm I in Berlin: Tensions between National, Prussian and Dynastic Identities
Douglas Klahr
Chapter 7. History, National Identity and Architecture in the Last Royal Palaces in Europe (1861-1930): Turin, Budapest, Bucharest
Paolo Cornagliä
Chapter 8¿. Renaissance Architecture and the Search for the Hungarian National Style in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries¿
Gábor György Papp
Chapter 9. Vernacular Versus Historical: National Style(s) in the Architecture of Austro-Hungarian Croatia
Dragan Damjanovic¿¿
Part III: Appropriation of Heritage(s)¿¿
Chapter 10. Architectural Heritage in the National Discourse of the Nineteenth Century Russia: Kazan Antiquities
Gulchachak Nugmanova
¿¿Chapter 11. Hungarian Nation-Building and the Use of Medieval Archaeology: Interpreting the Székesfehérvár Excavations in the Nineteenth Century
Andrea Kocsis
Chapter 12. Architectural Heritage of Silesia in the Purview of Prussian History (1740-1918)
Monika Ewa Adamskä¿
Chapter 13. Madonna del Pascolo: Ruthenian Heritage in the Baroque Rome and the Development of the National Church of the Ukrainians, 1640s¿1960s
Anatole Upart
Afterword: For the Glory of Nation: Architectural Heritage in Nineteenth-Century Europe
Dragan Damjanovic
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