Ugo Monneret de Villard (1881–1954) and the Establishment of Islamic Art Studies in Italy
Ugo Monneret de Villard was the main Italian scholar of Islamic art in the twentieth century. Where and why did this engineer from Milan start cultivating this interest? How did his work come to be appreciated at the highest academic levels? This article delineates Monneret’s long training through a...
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| Tipo de documento: | Electrónico Artículo |
| Lenguaje: | Inglés |
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Brill
2014
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Muqarnas
Año: 2014, Volumen: 30, Número: 1, Páginas: 35-71 |
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Ugo Monneret de Villard
Islamic art historiography
Islamic art in Italy
Islamic archaeology
Orientalism
Umberto Zanotti Bianco
Catalogo opere arte islamica
Christian and Islamic medieval architecture in Egypt
Christian Nubia
Archaeology and Fascism
University chair of Islamic art in Italy
Italian orientalists
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| Sumario: | Ugo Monneret de Villard was the main Italian scholar of Islamic art in the twentieth century. Where and why did this engineer from Milan start cultivating this interest? How did his work come to be appreciated at the highest academic levels? This article delineates Monneret’s long training through an examination of his readings and writings, travels, and exchanges with other scholars, all of which influenced his working methodology, leading him to archaeological missions in Africa and predisposing his discovery of Islamic art.
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| ISSN: | 2211-8993 |
| Obras secundarias: | In: Muqarnas
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/22118993-0301P0004 |