Christine Smith. Architecture in the Culture of Early Humanism. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992. 24 figs. + xix + 298 pp. $35.

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“…Miniature cities in silver and gold were built in the centuries to follow in other European cities, with the same intended function to bestow supernatural protection to the full-scale cities they symbolically represented. Commemorative and celebratory city models were also customary, such as those of five German cities and the city of Jerusalem, crafted in painted lime-wood by wood turner Jakob Sandtner (1561–1574) for Duke Albrecht V of Bavaria (Anderson, 2013: 149; Croy and Elser, 2001).…”

Section: Miniature Architecture: a Brief Historymentioning

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Miniature town models and memory: An example from the European borderlands

Mikula

2017

Journal of Material Culture

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Focusing on a miniature replica of Umag/Umago in Istria, made in 1970 by exiled master craftsman Beniamino Favretto and currently exhibited at the Civico Museo della Civiltà Istriana, Fiumana e Dalmata in Trieste, the author argues that miniature town models can be highly effective catalysts of imaginative emplacement in today's arguably 'placeless' society. Taking a cue from the groundbreaking volume edited by Arjun Appadurai, The Social Life of Things: Commodities in Cultural Perspective (1986), the author first considers the 'social life' of Favretto's miniature and its fortunes within the community it was produced for, which the miniature itself helped to sustain. She then proceeds by explaining the power of three-dimensional 'miniature worlds' to conjure up the idea of 'home' through their structural peculiarities, including their frozen temporality and the particular optic vantage point they afford to the viewer, also through their hybrid character as simultaneously works of art, playthings and religious objects. KeywordsIstria, memory, miniature town models Intricate town models designed and crafted by highly skilled artisans are never merely static replicas of the urban environments they embody. Treasured possessions in museums and private collections, these miniature towns typically blend hyper-realism and a high degree of intimacy, thereby conveying compelling stories, eliciting affect and simultaneously 'teaching and delighting' their audiences. With their economies of scale and their iconic character, miniatures can help people rescue their memory worlds from fading away (Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, 1989: 335). They are comforting because they offer

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Section: Miniature Architecture: a Brief Historymentioning

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Miniature town models and memory: An example from the European borderlands

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Christine Smith. Architecture in the Culture of Early Humanism. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992. 24 figs. + xix + 298 pp. $35.

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Miniature town models and memory: An example from the European borderlands

Miniature town models and memory: An example from the European borderlands

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