The Imagined and Real Jerusalem in Art and Architecture

In The Imagined and Real Jerusalem in Art and Architecture specialists in various fields of art history, from Early Christian times to the present, articulate a variety of cultural, religious and political implications of the visualization of Jerusalem. This collection of essays calls attention to two axes emerging from the study of Jerusalem in art: on the one hand, the volatile contemporary situation, and on the other hand, the abiding chain of meanings that history imparts to the city. From a contemporary perspective and within a broad historical context, the book discusses in depth a series of Western artworks, artefacts, and buildings providing new insights into memory processes and mechanisms of representation of Jerusalem.

Jeroen Goudeau, Ph.D. (2005), Utrecht University, is Assistant Professor of art and architectural history at Radboud University Nijmegen. He has published mainly on Early Modern architectural theory, including a monograph on the seventeenth-century scholar Nicolaus Goldmann (Groningen 2005).

Mariëtte Verhoeven, Ph.D. (2010), Radboud University Nijmegen, is postdoctoral researcher at that university. She has published a monograph The Early Christian Monuments of Ravenna. Transformations and Memory (2011). Her field of research is the cultural history of Early Christian and Byzantine architecture.

Wouter Weijers, Ph.D (2012), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, is Assistant Professor of modern and contemporary art at Radboud University Nijmegen. His dissertation Verbeelde herinnering (Represented Memories) focuses on aspects of cultural memory in post-war visual arts, including responses to World War II.

Contributors are: Hanneke van Asperen, Sible de Blaauw, Katja Boertjes, Mette Gieskes, Jeroen Goudeau, Bram de Klerck, Rudie van Leeuwen, Anneke Schulenberg, Daan Van Speybroeck, Mariëtte Verhoeven, and Wouter Weijers.