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DESCRIPTION:Dana Katz will give a Brown Bag Lunch presentation on Tuesday\,
  October 12\, at 12:15 pm. Her talk is entitled “Islamic Palaces in a Chri
 stian Land? The Royal Park Residences and Pavilions in the Twelfth-Century
  Norman Kingdom of Sicily.” From their capital Palermo\, the Norman rulers
  controlled a vast kingdom in the mid-twelfth century that stretched acros
 s southern Italy\, the island of Sicily\, and coastal Tunisia\, with a div
 erse population of Muslims\, Christians\, and Jews. In the scholarly liter
 ature\, they are renowned for their ecclesiastical building and programmat
 ic mosaic cycles based on Byzantine models. The talk will consider another
  corpus of buildings\, the palaces and pavilions located in the royal park
 lands just outside Palermo. These monuments are rarely discussed in most o
 verviews of the artistic and architectural production of the medieval king
 dom of Sicily. Katz will explore the reasons for their exclusion\, among w
 hich is that they do not seem to fit into existing disciplinary paradigms 
 of Western medieval art history for monuments commissioned by Christian ki
 ngs. This is because they were built entirely in what could be termed an I
 slamic mode\, and thus they cannot be considered “hybrid” monuments. The l
 atter interpretation has been made by some scholars in reference to key wo
 rks in the royal Norman sphere\, denoting the supposed syncretism of their
  rule and even tolerance toward the multi-faith population. The talk will 
 include recent findings in Palermo and on the island that illuminate the p
 receding period of Islamic rule\, while also considering comparative monum
 ents to the Sicilian parkland palaces elsewhere in the twelfth-century Med
 iterranean. The ultimate aim is to demonstrate that these secular building
 s in the human-modified landscapes on the periphery of medieval Palermo we
 re central to the formulation of Norman kingship and are rich in cultural 
 significance and meaning. Dana Katz received her BA from the University of
  Pennsylvania and her PhD from the Department of Art History at the Univer
 sity of Toronto. She was a postdoctoral fellow at the Haifa Center for Med
 iterranean History and held a Lady Davis Postdoctoral Fellowship at the He
 brew University of Jerusalem. Her research has been supported by the Fulbr
 ight Foundation\, the Samuel H. Kress Foundation\, Medieval Academy of Ame
 rica (Olivia Remie Constable Award)\, and Garden and Landscape Studies at 
 the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection. She has participated i
 n international seminars organized by the School of Oriental and African S
 tudies (SOAS) at the University of London and funded by the Getty Foundati
 on\, as well as the Bibliotheca Hertziana–Max Planck Institute for Art His
 tory. She is currently working on a monograph on a historical landscape in
  the medieval Mediterranean\, the royal parklands of the twelfth-century N
 orman kings of Sicily\, which she will be completing this year at BGC. Her
  work has been published in the Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institu
 tes in Florenz\, Convivium: Exchanges and Interactions in the Arts of Medi
 eval Europe\, Byzantium\, and the Mediterranean\, and most recently in the
  International Journal of Islamic Architecture. In addition to specializin
 g in medieval Sicily\, her research interests include Islamic art and arch
 itecture\, Crusader art\, museology\, and the formation of modern collecti
 ons of Islamic and medieval art. This event will be held via Zoom. A link 
 will be circulated to registrants by 10 am on the day of the event. This e
 vent will be live with automatic captions.
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SUMMARY:Bard Graduate Center: Islamic Palaces in a Christian Land? The Roya
 l Park Residences and Pavilions in the Twelfth-Century Norman Kingdom of S
 icily
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