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Preface / Melissa A. Butler -- PART ONE. Imagining Community: Belonging and Not Belonging to a Community -- 1. Issues of Participation and Transcendence -- (1). Imagining and Conceiving Community -- (2). Describing Imaginative Participation and Transcendence in the Visual Arts -- 2. Three Case Studies of Pictorial Space, Viewers' Location and the Imagining of Community Participation and Transcendence -- 1. Herman, Paul and Jan Limbourg, Tres riches heures -- i. Multiple Scales, Angles of Vision, and Perspectives -- ii. Space-Expanding Diagonals -- iii. Multiple Locations and the Joining of Participation with Transcendence -- iv. Precis -- 2. Perugino, Delivery of the Keys -- i. Linear Perspective and Its Impact on Imagining Community -- ii. Non-linear Nearness and Its impact on Imagining Community -- iii. Precis -- 3. Tintoretto, Vulcan Surprising Venus and Mars -- i. Theatricality -- ii. The Mirror -- iii. Precis -- 3. Summary I: Self-Identity/Self-Transcendence and Participation in/Transcendence of Community -- 4. Summary II Self-Identity/Self-Transcendence and Continuity/Change in Individuals and Community -- PART TWO. Imagining Legitimate Power: Transforming Community by Transforming Power -- 1. Issues of Power, Legitimacy and Civic Obligation -- 2. Botticelli's Lorenzo de' Medici -- 1. Contradictions in the Medici Identity -- 2. Botticelli's Medici Paintings -- i. Three Religious Paintings: Divine Space, Medici Space, and the Legitimacy of Medici Power -- ii. Primavera: Transforming Love, Self-Fulfillment and Civic Life -- i. Platonism and Trinitarian Thinking -- a. Contemplative Life and Civic Virtue -- b. Mature Love -- c. Platonic and Trinitarian Thinking -- ii. Botticelli's Trinitarian Thinking -- 3. Summary I: Botticelli's Achievement---New Markers of Resemblances and the Transformation of Political Power -- 4. Summary II: Botticelli's Achievement---Re-imagining the Legitimacy of Power and the Legitimacy of Art -- PART THREE. Imagining the Foundations of Community: The Well-Founded Building and the Well-Built Community -- 1. The Search for a Foundation for Art and Community -- 2. Public Architecture and Community -- 1. The St.-Etienne Cathedral in Sens and the San Lorenzo Church in Florence -- i. Harmony -- ii. Diffusion of the Worshiper's Presence -- iii. Linear Energy -- iv. Horizontal Energy -- v. The Incarnation in Christ and the Incarnations in Stone -- vi. Individuals and Community -- 2. The Blue Mosque in Istanbul -- i. Harmony -- ii. The Line to Mecca -- iii. Immeasurable Space -- iv. The Beauty of the Mosque and the Beauty of Allah -- v. The Meaning of Beauty: The Self-Revealing and the Revelation of Allah -- vi. The Mosque, the Revelation of Allah, the Self-Revealing of Allah, and Community -- 3. Summary I: A Community and Its Architecture---Each the Foundation of the Other -- 1. Equiprimordiality of Foundations that Presuppose Each Other -- 2. Allusions to Religious Architecture as Allusions to Well-Foundedness -- 3. Eventfulness -- 4. Founded Communities and Their Artifacts -- i. The Well-Founded Community's Need for Artifacts -- ii. Some Characteristics of Founded Communities' Artifacts -- iii. Secular Communities and Their Artifacts -- 4. Summary II: Transition to Future Studies of Arts and Community.
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