Rethinking Spaces for an Inclusive City

The book brings together the latest literature and European experiences on preventing youth violent radicalisation and violent actions in intergroup relations. Youth violent radicalisation is a significant problem within the European context, and requires an exploration of how various social actors can play an active role in preventing radicalisation in minors and young adults. The chapter introduces the promotion of inclusion as a catalyser for the reimagination and transformation of urban a...

Too Many Wounds: Innocenzo da Petralia's Excessive Crucifixes and the Normative Image

This chapter focuses on the significance of an inquisitorial case-study concerning a series of hyperrealistic crucifixes made by the Sicilian sculptor Innocenzo da Petralia around 1637-38 for the development of a study on the normativity of sacred images. For such a study, this case is extremely important, not only because it concerns the central image of Christianity, but also because it is one of the few inquisitorial trials into the work of a sculptor, if not the only one we know at presen...

Images as Norms in Europe and Beyond: A Research Program

Early modern objects, images and artworks often served as nodes of discussion and contestation. If images were sometimes contested by external and often competing agencies (religious and secular authorities, image theoreticians, inquisitions, or single individuals), artists and objects were often just as likely to impose their own rules and standards through the continuation or contestation of established visual traditions, styles, iconographies, materialities, reproductions and reframings. C...

Antiquities in Company: the Birth of the Collection / Antichità in compagnia: nasce la collezione