Adam G Beaver

For some time now, I’ve been compiling bibliography on European replicas of Near Eastern Holy Places. Below the jump I’ve pasted a stab at all that I’ve collected thus far; please feel free to email me or to comment on this post to add things I might have missed!

Holy Sepulchers

• Sarah Blick & Rita Tekippe, Art and Architecture of Late Medieval Pilgrimage in Northern Europe and the British Isles, 2 vols., Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions, 104 (Leiden: Brill, 2005).
• Geneviève Bresc-Bautier, “Les imitations du Saint-Sepulcre de Jerusalem (IXe–XVe siècles): Archéologie d’une dévotion,” Revue d’Histoire de la Spiritualité 50 (1974): 319–342.
• N.C. Brooks, The Sepulchre of Christ in Art and Liturgy, University of Illinois Studies in Language and Literature, 7.2 (Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1921).
• Ludwig H. Heydenreich, “Die Cappella Rucellai von San Pancrazio in Florenz,” in Millard Meiss, ed., De artibus opuscula XL: Essays in Honor of Erwin Panofsky, 2 vols. (New York, NY: New York University Press, 1961), 1:219–229.
• F.W. Kent, “The Letters Genuine and Spurious of Giovanni Rucellai,” Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 37 (1974): 342–349.
• Richard Krautheimer, “Introduction to an ‘Iconography of Mediaeval Architecture,’” Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 5 (1942): 1–33.
• Justin E. A. Kroesen, The Sepulchrum Domini through the Ages: Its Form and Function (Leuven: Peeters, 2000).
• Colin Morris, The Sepulchre of Christ and the Medieval West: From the Beginning to 1600 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005).
• ———-, “Bringing the Holy Sepulchre to the West: S. Stefano, Bologna, from the Fifth to the Twentieth Century,” in R.N. Swanson, ed., The Church Retrospective, Studies in Church History, 33 (Woodbridge: Boydell Press for The Ecclesiastical History Society, 1997), 31–60.
• Damiano Neri, Il S. Sepulcro riprodotto in Occidente (Jerusalem: Franciscan Printing Press, 1971).
• Robert Ousterhout, “Loca Sancta and the Architectural Responses to Pilgrimage,” in idem, ed., The Blessings of Pilgrimage (Urbana/Chicago, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1990), 108–124.
• ———-, “The Church of Santo Stefano: A ‘Jerusalem’ in Bologna,” Gesta 20 (1981): 311–321.

[It is interesting to note that the same pattern of replication occurred in medieval Ethiopia, as well; see Marilyn E. Heldman, “Architectural Symbolism, Sacred Geography and the Ethiopian Church,” Journal of Religion in Africa 22 (1992): 222–241.]

Via Crucis & Sacri Monti

• Amilcare Barbero, ed., Atlante dei sacri monti, calvari e complessi devozionali europei (Novara: Istituto geografico De Agostini, 2001).
• Philippe Baud, Chemin de croix: les origines d’une dévotion populaire (Paris: Médiaspaul, 1995).
• David Freedberg, The Power of Images: Studies in the History and Theory of Response (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1989), 192–245.
• Sergio Gensini, ed., La “Gerusalemme” di San Vivaldo e i Sacri Monti in Europa (Firenze–San Vivaldo, 11–13 settembre 1986), Centro internazionale di studi “La ‘Gerusalemme’ di San Vivaldo,’ Montaione, 1 (Montaione: Comune di Montaione, 1989).
• Cesáreo Gil Atrio, “España, ¿cuña del Viacrucis?” Archivo Ibero-Americano 11[n.s.] (1951): 63–92.
• Pedro José Pradillo y Esteban, Vía Crucis, Calvarios y Sacromontes: arte y religiosidad popular en la contrareforma. Guadalajara, un caso excepcional (Guadalajara: Diputación Provincial de Guadalajara, 1996).
• Kathryn Rudy, “Northern European Visual Responses to Holy Land Pilgrimage, 1453–1550,” PhD dissertation, Art History, Columbia University, 2001.
• Amédée Teetaert da Zedelgem, “Aperçu historique sur la dévotion au chemin de la croix,” Collectanea franciscana 19 (1949): 45–142.
• Herbert Thurston, The Stations of the Cross: An Account of their History and Devotional Purpose (London: Burns & Oates, 1906).
• Dorino Tuniz, ed., I Sacri Monti nella cultura religiosa e artistica del Nord Italia (Cinisello Balsamo [Milan]: San Paolo, 2005).

Carmelite Deserts

• Trevor Johnson, “Gardening for God: Carmelite Deserts and the Sacralisation of Natural Space in Counter-Reformation Spain,” in Will Coster & Andrew Spicer, eds., Sacred Space in Early Modern Europe (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005), 193–210.
• J.M. Muñoz Jiménez, “Yermos y Sacromontes: Itinerarios de Vía Crucis en los Desiertos Carmelitanos,” in Los caminos y el arte. Actas, VI Congreso Espanõl de Historia del Arte C.E.H.A., Santiago de Compostela, 16–20 de junio de 1986, 3 vols., Cursos y congresos da Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, 54 (Santiago de Compostela: Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, 1989), 3:171–182.