Wounded Cities

Contents Preface vii List of Table and Figures xv List of Contributors xix xxi Part 1 The Representation of Urban Disasters in a Long-Term Perspective 1 Transient Cities: Representations of Urban Destructions in European Iconography in the Fourteenth to Seventeenth Centuries 3 Marco Folin 2 When Towns Collapse: Images of Earthquakes, Floods, and Eruptions in Italy in the Fifteenth to Nineteenth Centuries 33 Emanuela Guidoboni PART 2 Images of Ruination and Hopes for Redemption 3 Urban Responses to Disaster in Renaissance Italy: Images and Rituals 59 Fabrizio Nevola 4 In the Beginning, There was Fire: Vitruvius and the Origin of the City 75 Olga Medvedkova 5 "Cities of Fire": Iconographic Fortune, Taste and Circulation of Fire Paintings between Flanders and Italy in the early Sixteenth Century 100 Isabella di Lenardo 6 The Destruction of the City: A Pledge of Salvation? Some Reflections about Monsu Desiderio and the Genre of "Destruction Painting" 116 Philippe Malgouyres PART 3 Urban Disasters on Display: Art, Documentation, Remembrance 7 Catastrophe and Photography as a "Double Reversal": The 1908 Messina and Reggio Earthquake and the Album of the Italian Photographic Society 137 Tiziana Serena 8 Meidner's Urban Iconography: Optical Destruction and Visual Apocalypse 164 Sophie Goetzmann 9 Destruction and Construction in Contemporary Art. Three Cases in Twentieth-Century Italy (Gibellina 1968, Friuli 1976, Napoli 1980) 179 Alessandro Del Puppo Index of Names 193 Index of Places 203