Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgements V
3. Contents VII
4. List of Illustrations IX
5. Author Biographies XIII
6. ‘What Then is Time?’ Present and Presence. An Introduction 1
7. I Temporality, Presence, and Writing Art History
8. 1 Art History’s Transgressive Temporalities 35
9. 2 Bild und Präsenz: An Interview with Hans Belting 47
10. II Time and Presence in the Middle Ages
11. 3 The Appointed Time: Early Islamic Temporality and the Haram al-Sharif in Jerusalem 53
12. 4 The Shape of Time: Aligning the Medieval Present with the Biblical Past in the Diagrams of Opicinus de Canistris (1296–ca. 1352) 71
13. 5 The Paduan Baptistery: A Case Study on the Interrelations of Time and Image in the Fourteenth Century 91
14. 6 Pointing to a Deeper Now: Time, Sound, Touch, and the Devotional Present in Fifteenth-Century Northern Europe 113
15. III Encountering Past Presents
16. 7 Timing Lepanto in Venetian Visual Culture: The Making of Present Past in the 1570s 137
17. 8 The Uncanny Encounter 159
18. 9 Engaging Spaces: Matteo Giovannetti’s Frescoes at the Papal Court of Avignon 175
19. 10 Experiencing the Present (and Past) Through the Body: Pilgrimage as a Tool for Transforming Time, and the Migrating Art Historians Project 199
20. IV Experiencing Presence in Museum Education
21. 11 Beyond Interpretation: A Brief Case for Presence at the Heart of Art Museum Education 223
22. 12 Radiant Dialogue: Discovering Piero’s Crucifixion in The Frick Collection 235
23. 13 Dialogue on Dialogues: Rika Burnham and Nathaniel Prottas in Conversation 243
24. Index 251