Introduction

TY - JOUR

T1 - Introduction

AU - Bartal, Renana

AU - Vorholt, Hanna

N1 - Funding Information: remained interested in tracing cultural exchange, as demonstrated by her organization of the Fifth International Seminar of the Center for Jewish Art, which brought together a large number of leading scholars to discuss the relationships between the real and the ideal city in Jewish, Christian, and Muslim art.6 As Bianca highlighted in her introduction to the conference proceedings, the juxtaposition of Jewish, Christian, and Islamic depictions of Jerusalem revealed not only the borrowing of visual motifs and iconographic elements across the three monotheistic faiths but also their different attitudes toward the city. These are most clearly manifest in their eschatological expectations: while Jewish and Muslim art is preoccupied with the Temple or Temple Mount as a symbol for the future restoration of Jerusalem, Christian visual representations often focus on the heavenly Jerusalem of the end of days. Eschatological notions and calculations of time continued to inform Bianca’s next major research endeavour. In The End of Time in the Order of Things, she investigated the formal and conceptual links between biblical iconography and diagrams, then a neglected area of art historical research, during the Carolingian period and beyond.7 Bianca’s research has won her great international scholarly recognition. In addition to her appointment in 1994 as Jack Cotton Professor of Architecture and Fine Arts at the Hebrew University, she held a number of other positions and fellowships in Israel, Germany, France, Italy, and the USA. She received an Alexander von Humboldt and Max Planck Research Prize (2007–08) and the Decoration of the Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art (2014), as well as grants by the GermanIsraeli Foundation (2000–03 and 2009–12), the Fritz Thyssen Foundation (2006–09), and the European Research Council (2010–16); the latter led her to form the research group ‘SPECTRUM: Visual Translations of Jerusalem’. Members of the group examine sites that translate the city into Europe, placing particular emphasis on topographical recreations, in which the loca sancta and the events they commemorate are represented through monuments and sculptures arranged in spatial relationships that echo those in Jerusalem, but also considering pictorial representations and the role of objects, relics, and sacred matter in conceptualizing the mobility of the city in changing historical conditions. The events and publications that Bianca has engendered through ‘SPECTRUM’, including the proceedings of the second major

PY - 2015

Y1 - 2015

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U2 - 10.1163/9789004298187_002

DO - 10.1163/9789004298187_002

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AN - SCOPUS:85144709116

SN - 1874-0448

VL - 11

SP - 1

EP - 9

JO - Visualising the Middle Ages

JF - Visualising the Middle Ages

ER -