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Research paper thumbnail of All that Glitters Is Not Gold Helen Hills

All The Glitters (Art History, 2022), 2022

Review article of Fabio Barry Painting in Stone & Christopher L. Maxwell In Sparkling Company (A... more Review article of Fabio Barry Painting in Stone & Christopher L. Maxwell In Sparkling Company (Art History, 2022)

Research paper thumbnail of Hills Veiling Architecture

Veiling Architecture

what is the relationship between veils and architecture?

Research paper thumbnail of The Matter of Miracles. Neapolitan Baroque Architecture & Sanctity

Book published by MUP (Oct 2016)

Research paper thumbnail of Invisible City: The Architecture of Devotion in Seventeenth-Century Neapolitan Convents, Oxford University Press, 268 pp.44 b. & w. & 10 col. plates. 2004.

Research paper thumbnail of Towards Histories of Emotions

Research paper thumbnail of New Approaches to Naples 1500-1800: The Power of Place, Ashgate 2013

Research paper thumbnail of Rethinking the Baroque

ed. Helen Hills (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2011).Rethinking the Baroque explores a tension. In recent y... more ed. Helen Hills (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2011).Rethinking the Baroque explores a tension. In recent years the idea of ‘baroque’ or ‘the baroque’ has been seized upon by scholars from a range of disciplines and the term ‘baroque’ has consequently been much in evidence in writings on contemporary culture, especially architecture and entertainment. Most of the scholars concerned have little knowledge of the art, literature, and history of the period usually associated with the baroque. A gulf has arisen. On the one hand, there are scholars who are deeply immersed in historical period, who shy away from abstraction, and who have remained often oblivious to the convulsions surrounding the term ‘baroque’; on the other, there are theorists and scholars of contemporary theory who have largely ignored baroque art and architecture. This book explores what happens when these worlds mesh.

In this book, scholars from a range of disciplines retrieve the term ‘baroque’ from the margins of art history where it has been sidelined as ‘anachronistic’, to reconsider the usefulness of the term ‘baroque’, while avoiding simply rehearsing familiar policing of periodization, stylistic boundaries, categories or essence. ‘Baroque’ emerges as a vital and productive way to rethink problems in art history, visual culture and architectural theory.

Rather than attempting to provide a survey of baroque as a chronological or geographical conception, the essays here attempt critical re-engagement with the term ‘baroque’ – its promise, its limits, and its overlooked potential – in relation to the visual arts. Thus the book is posited on the idea that tension is not only inevitable, but even desirable, since it not only encapsulates intellectual divergence (which is always as useful as much as it is feared), but helps to push scholars (and therefore readers) outside their usual runnels.

Research paper thumbnail of Architecture and the Politics of Gender (Book)

Research paper thumbnail of Marmi Mischi Siciliani: Invenzione e Identità

... Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: translated into Italian by Anna VIO. Keyword... more ... Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: translated into Italian by Anna VIO. Keywords: inlaid polychrome marble intarsia church interior decoration baroque architecture Sicily Italy Palermo religious orders. Academic Units: The University of York > History of Art (York). ...

Research paper thumbnail of Fabrications: New Art and Urban Memory in Manchester, Manchester: UMiM, 2002.

Research paper thumbnail of P. Gouk & H. Hills (eds), Representing Emotions: New Connections in the Histories of Art, Music and Medicine, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005.

Research paper thumbnail of (ed.), Architecture and the Politics of Gender in Early Modern Europe, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003.

Baroque by Helen Hills

Research paper thumbnail of Conceptions and determinations of baroque and new baroque in the last decade A discussion between

Research paper thumbnail of The Baroque

Research paper thumbnail of L'Architettura e il Velo', in Maria Giuseppina Muzzarelli & Gabriella Zarri (eds), Il velo in area mediterranea fra storia e simbolo. Tardo Medioevo-prima Età moderna', Il Mulino: Bologna, 2014, 345-366

Research paper thumbnail of The Baroque: the grit in the oyster of art history, in H. Hills (ed.), Rethinking the Baroque, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2011, 11-38

Research paper thumbnail of ‘« Négociation » du pouvoir en Italie post-Tridentine: gender, architecture, et puissance’, in Les Valenciennes. Femmes de pouvoir et pouvoir des femmes dans l’Occident medieval et moderne, special issue edited by Armel Nayt-Dubois & Emmanuelle Santinelli-Foltz, n.41-42, 2009, 151-162

Research paper thumbnail of The Neapolitan Seggi as Patrons of Architecture in Baroque Naples

Research paper thumbnail of The Convent in the City; the Choir in the Convent: Female convent churches in Baroque Palermo and Naples', in de Moura Sobral, L. & Booth, D., Struggle for Synthesis: The Total Work of Art in the 17th and 18th Centuries: Proceedings of Conference, Braga 1996, vol. I, Lisbon: Ministerio da Cultura...

Research paper thumbnail of The Baroque: Beads in a Rosary or Folds of Time

Research paper thumbnail of All that Glitters Is Not Gold Helen Hills

All The Glitters (Art History, 2022), 2022

Review article of Fabio Barry Painting in Stone & Christopher L. Maxwell In Sparkling Company (A... more Review article of Fabio Barry Painting in Stone & Christopher L. Maxwell In Sparkling Company (Art History, 2022)

Research paper thumbnail of Hills Veiling Architecture

Veiling Architecture

what is the relationship between veils and architecture?

Research paper thumbnail of The Matter of Miracles. Neapolitan Baroque Architecture & Sanctity

Book published by MUP (Oct 2016)

Research paper thumbnail of Invisible City: The Architecture of Devotion in Seventeenth-Century Neapolitan Convents, Oxford University Press, 268 pp.44 b. & w. & 10 col. plates. 2004.

Research paper thumbnail of Towards Histories of Emotions

Research paper thumbnail of New Approaches to Naples 1500-1800: The Power of Place, Ashgate 2013

Research paper thumbnail of Rethinking the Baroque

ed. Helen Hills (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2011).Rethinking the Baroque explores a tension. In recent y... more ed. Helen Hills (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2011).Rethinking the Baroque explores a tension. In recent years the idea of ‘baroque’ or ‘the baroque’ has been seized upon by scholars from a range of disciplines and the term ‘baroque’ has consequently been much in evidence in writings on contemporary culture, especially architecture and entertainment. Most of the scholars concerned have little knowledge of the art, literature, and history of the period usually associated with the baroque. A gulf has arisen. On the one hand, there are scholars who are deeply immersed in historical period, who shy away from abstraction, and who have remained often oblivious to the convulsions surrounding the term ‘baroque’; on the other, there are theorists and scholars of contemporary theory who have largely ignored baroque art and architecture. This book explores what happens when these worlds mesh.

In this book, scholars from a range of disciplines retrieve the term ‘baroque’ from the margins of art history where it has been sidelined as ‘anachronistic’, to reconsider the usefulness of the term ‘baroque’, while avoiding simply rehearsing familiar policing of periodization, stylistic boundaries, categories or essence. ‘Baroque’ emerges as a vital and productive way to rethink problems in art history, visual culture and architectural theory.

Rather than attempting to provide a survey of baroque as a chronological or geographical conception, the essays here attempt critical re-engagement with the term ‘baroque’ – its promise, its limits, and its overlooked potential – in relation to the visual arts. Thus the book is posited on the idea that tension is not only inevitable, but even desirable, since it not only encapsulates intellectual divergence (which is always as useful as much as it is feared), but helps to push scholars (and therefore readers) outside their usual runnels.

Research paper thumbnail of Architecture and the Politics of Gender (Book)

Research paper thumbnail of Marmi Mischi Siciliani: Invenzione e Identità

... Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: translated into Italian by Anna VIO. Keyword... more ... Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: translated into Italian by Anna VIO. Keywords: inlaid polychrome marble intarsia church interior decoration baroque architecture Sicily Italy Palermo religious orders. Academic Units: The University of York > History of Art (York). ...

Research paper thumbnail of Fabrications: New Art and Urban Memory in Manchester, Manchester: UMiM, 2002.

Research paper thumbnail of P. Gouk & H. Hills (eds), Representing Emotions: New Connections in the Histories of Art, Music and Medicine, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005.

Research paper thumbnail of (ed.), Architecture and the Politics of Gender in Early Modern Europe, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003.

Research paper thumbnail of Conceptions and determinations of baroque and new baroque in the last decade A discussion between

Research paper thumbnail of The Baroque

Research paper thumbnail of L'Architettura e il Velo', in Maria Giuseppina Muzzarelli & Gabriella Zarri (eds), Il velo in area mediterranea fra storia e simbolo. Tardo Medioevo-prima Età moderna', Il Mulino: Bologna, 2014, 345-366

Research paper thumbnail of The Baroque: the grit in the oyster of art history, in H. Hills (ed.), Rethinking the Baroque, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2011, 11-38

Research paper thumbnail of ‘« Négociation » du pouvoir en Italie post-Tridentine: gender, architecture, et puissance’, in Les Valenciennes. Femmes de pouvoir et pouvoir des femmes dans l’Occident medieval et moderne, special issue edited by Armel Nayt-Dubois & Emmanuelle Santinelli-Foltz, n.41-42, 2009, 151-162

Research paper thumbnail of The Neapolitan Seggi as Patrons of Architecture in Baroque Naples

Research paper thumbnail of The Convent in the City; the Choir in the Convent: Female convent churches in Baroque Palermo and Naples', in de Moura Sobral, L. & Booth, D., Struggle for Synthesis: The Total Work of Art in the 17th and 18th Centuries: Proceedings of Conference, Braga 1996, vol. I, Lisbon: Ministerio da Cultura...

Research paper thumbnail of The Baroque: Beads in a Rosary or Folds of Time

Research paper thumbnail of Beyond Mere Containment: Baroque Architecture in Naples

Research paper thumbnail of Review: What's in a Relic?

Oxford Art Journal, 2005

Page 1. revie iews Reviews Helen M. Hills Cammy Brothers Leslie Topp Jennifer L. Shaw David J. Ge... more Page 1. revie iews Reviews Helen M. Hills Cammy Brothers Leslie Topp Jennifer L. Shaw David J. Getsy Irene Gammel Gavin Butt at Google Indexer on September 9, 2010 oaj.oxfordjournals. org Downloaded from Page 2. at Google Indexer on September 9, 2010 ...

Research paper thumbnail of Theorizing the relationship between architecture and gender in early modern Europe

Research paper thumbnail of The Art and Architecture of Sicily

Research paper thumbnail of Conceptions and reworkings of baroque and neobaroque in recent years

Research paper thumbnail of Conceptions and determinations of baroque and new baroque in the last decade A discussion between

Research paper thumbnail of The Baroque and Decadence : The Folds of Time and the Beads of the Rosary

Research paper thumbnail of The Baroque: Beads in a Rosary or Folds in Time

Fabrications: The Journal of the Society of …, 2007

... of the other: Borromini, whom Quatremère regards as motivated mostly by jealousy of Bernini, ... more ... of the other: Borromini, whom Quatremère regards as motivated mostly by jealousy of Bernini, 'provided the greatest models of bizarrerie', while Guarini passes for 'the master of the baroque'; and he cites Guarini's SS Sindone Chapel in ... Figure 5: S. Caterina, Palermo, c.1598. ...

Research paper thumbnail of Too Much Propaganda

Research paper thumbnail of The Veiled Body: Within the Folds of Early Modern Neapolitan Convent Architecture

Research paper thumbnail of Villa Palagonia in Bagheria near Palermo', Daidalos, 28, June 1998, 34-44

Research paper thumbnail of Centri e Periferie: Decorazioni ecclesiastiche in marmi intarsiati nella Palermo del XVII secolo', Arte Cristiana, 1996, 405-419

Research paper thumbnail of ‘The Face is a Mirror of the Soul’: Frontispieces and the Production of Sanctity in Post-Tridentine Naples

Research paper thumbnail of Iconography and Ideology: Aristocracy, Immaculacy and Virginity in Seventeenth-Century Palermo

Research paper thumbnail of Architecture and the Politics of Gender in Early Modern Europe

Woman's Art Journal, 2005

... (Photo: © Madrid, Prado) 2.1 Facade, Val-de-Grace, Paris, France. (Photo: © Caroline Rose) 2.... more ... (Photo: © Madrid, Prado) 2.1 Facade, Val-de-Grace, Paris, France. (Photo: © Caroline Rose) 2.2 Inscription on the frieze of the dome. Val-de-Grace, Paris, France. (Photo: ©Caroline Rose) 2.3 The nave vault. Val-de-Grace, Paris, France. ...

Research paper thumbnail of Through a Glass Darkly. Material Holiness and the Treasury Chapel of San Gennaro in Naples', in M. Calaresu & H. Hills (eds), New Approaches to Naples, c.1500-c.1800, Aldershot: Ashgate: 2013, 31-62

Research paper thumbnail of Taking Place: Architecture and holiness in seventeenth-century Italy', chapter for Renaissance Architecture edited by Alina Payne, Blackwell. In press (due 2015)

Research paper thumbnail of New Approaches to Naples 1500-1800: The Power of Place

Research paper thumbnail of Abitare l’architettura istituzionale: alla ricerca del sacro domestico nei monasteri post-tridentini italiani’, in Candace Smith (ed.), Soror Mea Sponsa Mea: Arte e musica nei conventi femminili in Italia tra Cinque e Seicento, Bologna: Il Poligrafo, 2009, 23-48. Winner of the 2010 SSEMW (USA) Ar...

Research paper thumbnail of Monasteri Femminili aristocratici a Napoli e a Palermo nella prima età moderna e la "Conventualizzazione" della Città', in Fiume, G., (ed.), Il santo patrono e la città: San Benedetto il Moro: culti, devozioni, strategie di età moderna, Venice: Marsilio, 2000, 68-80

Research paper thumbnail of Convents in the city; choirs in the convents: Aristocratic female convents and urbanism in early modern Palermo and Naples', in L. Trigilia, (ed.), Annali del Barocco in Sicilia: Pompeo Picherali: Architettura e Città fra XVII e XVIII Secolo, Rome, 1998, 61-76

Research paper thumbnail of Beyond Mere Containment: The Neapolitan Treasury Chapel of San Gennaro and the Matter of Materials

California Italian Studies, 2012

Research paper thumbnail of Monasteri femminili aristocratici a Napoli e Palermo nella prima eta moderna e la "conventualizzazione" della citta

Research paper thumbnail of How to Look like a Counter-Reformation Saint

Exploring Cultural History Essays in Honour of Peter Burke 2010 Isbn 9780754667506 Pags 207 230, 2010

Research paper thumbnail of The Housing of Institutional Architecture: searching for a domestic holy in post-Tridentine Italian convents

Research paper thumbnail of Book Review: Architecture as Performance in Seventeenth-Century Europe. Court Ritual in Modena, Rome, and Paris

Research paper thumbnail of ‘Demure Transgression: Portraying Female “Saints” in post-Tridentine Italy’, Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal, Fall 2008, vol.3, 153-208

Research paper thumbnail of The Architecture of Devotion in Seventeenth-Century Neapolitan Convents

Research paper thumbnail of Invisible City: The Architecture of Devotion in Seventeenth-Century Neapolitan Convents. By Helen Hills. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. xii + 268 pp. $60.00 cloth

Research paper thumbnail of “Enamelled with the Blood of a Noble Lineage”: Tracing Noble Blood and Female Holiness in Early Modern Neapolitan Convents and Their Architecture

Church History, 2004

The stark antithesis between the secular and the religious has been effectively challenged by sch... more The stark antithesis between the secular and the religious has been effectively challenged by scholarship of early modern Italy, which has shown the degree to which these fields necessarily overlapped. Nevertheless, studies of early modern female devotion, especially within convents, often present women as caught between competing claims of kinship and clerical authority, a conflict between family and convent, an opposition between the secular and the divine. This paper argues that within Neapolitan conventual circles, at least, nuns' noble blood was regarded as enhancing the spiritual value of their convents, and that, on the whole, the way in which the Decrees of the Council of Trent were interpreted served to “aristocratize” convents. Something of a fusion occurred between nobility and spirituality in women. This paper relates this fusion to discourses on nobility and to the aristocratization of convent culture after enclosure at Trent, examining how it marked post-Tridentine...

Research paper thumbnail of Architecture of Difference: The Secret of the Religious Architectural Body’, in S. Cabibbo (ed.), Gender, Religion, Human Rights in Europe, Rome: Herder, 2006, 245-262

Research paper thumbnail of Architecture as Metaphor for the Body: the Case of Female Aristocratic Convents in Early Modern Italy', in L. Durning and R.Wrigley (eds), Gender & Architecture: History, Interpretation, Practice, Chichester & New York, John Wiley & Sons, 2000, 67-112

Research paper thumbnail of ENCHANTMENT IN AMHERST: WHY VISIT AN ARTIST'S HOUSE? Helen Hills

OpenArts Full text: OAJ ISSUE 11 FINAL_Article_9, 2024

This essay explores the appeal of visiting the homes of famous people long dead-a common but curi... more This essay explores the appeal of visiting the homes of famous people long dead-a common but curious practice too often taken for granted-through the lens of a visit I made in 2014 to Emily Dickinson's house in Amherst, Massachusetts. I suggest that this practice is the secularized counterpart of Catholic pilgrimages to and devotion at saints' shrines, seeking grace or a miraculous intervention of some kind. And occasionally even now such things do take place.

Research paper thumbnail of All that Glitters Is Not Gold Helen Hills

All That Glitters, 2022

Book review of F. Barry Painting in Stone and Christopher L. Maxwell In Sparkling Company (Art Hi... more Book review of F. Barry Painting in Stone and Christopher L. Maxwell In Sparkling Company (Art History, 2022)

Research paper thumbnail of All that Glitters Is Not Gold Helen Hills

All That Glitters, 2022

Review article of Fabio Barry's Painting in Stone and Christopher L. Maxwell's In Sparkling Comp... more Review article of Fabio Barry's Painting in Stone and Christopher L. Maxwell's In Sparkling Company (Art History, 2022)

Research paper thumbnail of All that Glitters Is Not Gold Helen Hills

All That Glitters is Not Gold, 2022

Book review article of Fabio Barry, Painting in Stone and Christopher L. Maxwell In Sparkling Com... more Book review article of Fabio Barry, Painting in Stone and Christopher L. Maxwell In Sparkling Company (Art History, 2022)

Research paper thumbnail of Marmi Mischi Siciliani: Invenzione e Identità (Inlaid polychromatic marble decoration in early modern Sicily: Invention and identity), Società Messinese di Storia Patria, Scholarly monograph series, Messina, 1999. 457pp.

Research paper thumbnail of Art and Spirituality in Counter-Reformation Rome: The Sistine and Pauline Chapels in S. Maria Maggiore Steven Ostrow

Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 1997

... Art and spirituality in Counter-Reformation Rome: The Sistine and Pauline chapels in S. Maria... more ... Art and spirituality in Counter-Reformation Rome: The Sistine and Pauline chapels in S. Maria Maggiore. Post a Comment. CONTRIBUTORS: Author: Ostrow, Steven F. PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press (Cambridge England and New York, NY, USA). SERIES TITLE: ...

Research paper thumbnail of Fire and Blood: the Treasury Chapel of San Gennaro in Naples; miraculous liquefactions and Neapolitan topography', 'Ogon' i krov' : cudotvornoe prevrascenie v zidkost' v sokroviscinice San Dzenaro v Neapole i neapolitanskaja topografija / in Alexei Lidov (ed.), Ogon i svet v sakralnom prostranstv...

Research paper thumbnail of Beyond Mere Containment: The Neapolitan Treasury Chapel of San Gennaro and the Matter of Materials', California Italian Studies Journal, 2012, 3 (1), 1-21. http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/7d49p517

Research paper thumbnail of Did the Seggi have a Religious Architecture? Forging New Urban Devotion in Naples Cathedral and Civic Holiness', in Grit Heidemann, Tanja Michalsky (eds): Ordnungen des sozialen Raumes. Die Quartieri, Sestieri und Seggi in den fruehneuzeitlichen Staedten Italiens, Berlin: Reimer 2012, 159-188

Research paper thumbnail of Too Much Propaganda. (Book review)

Research paper thumbnail of Dislocating Holiness: City, Saint and the Production of Flesh

Research paper thumbnail of The Road Not Taken

Research paper thumbnail of *‘Spanish Influence on Sicilian Baroque Architecture', Ricerche di Storia dell'Arte, 58, 1996, 65-95

Research paper thumbnail of Marmi Mischi Siciliani: Invenzione e Identità (Inlaid polychromatic marble decoration in early modern Sicily: Invention and identity)

Research paper thumbnail of The Matter of Miracles: Neapolitan Baroque Architecture and Sanctity, written by Helen Hills

Journal of Jesuit Studies, 2019

Research paper thumbnail of The matter of miracles

Research paper thumbnail of 'Architecture and Religious Devotion in 17C Italy' in Ren and Baroque Architecture ed A Payne 2017 ed Mallgrave.pdf

'Taking Place Architecture Religious Devotion in 17C Italy', in Renaissance and Baroque Architect... more 'Taking Place Architecture Religious Devotion in 17C Italy', in Renaissance and Baroque Architecture, ed. Alina Payne, 2017; part of The Companions to the History of Architecture, ed. Harry Mallgrave (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., www.companionstohistoryofarchitecture.com) author Helen Hills uncorrected proofs.pdf

Research paper thumbnail of How to Look like a Counter-Reformation Saint

Research paper thumbnail of Beyond Mere Containment: The Neapolitan Treasury Chapel of San Gennaro and the Matter of Materials

This paper is a consideration of problems encountered in attempting an art historical analysis of... more This paper is a consideration of problems encountered in attempting an art historical analysis of the complex baroque forms of architecture in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Naples, specifically when confronted on the one hand by the rather bald, roughly contemporaneous accounts thereof and, on the other and more especially, by the thrilling experience of entering these buildings today -- experiences that leave one overwhelmed and at a loss, at a loss for words sufficient to them and at a loss in their regard. To look at these buildings today in terms of their affective material productivity, even if they can only be articulated incompletely, is to ask historians to undertake the kind of visual work that they are seldom accustomed to. It means staying the customary hastiness that sees architecture as mere instantiation of idea, and instead – while resisting the temptation to interpret architecture as merely the sum of its parts -- requires a willingness to inquire into the materiality of aspects of architecture and objects which yield ‘nothing’ to see (such as dark areas within sculpture, non-figurative passages within architecture, the shine of silver, illegible letters of unknowable alphabets). Simultaneously we need also to widen our usual scope of vision to restore to architecture its affective elements that make it work. This is to require the mobility of architecture’s affect to engage us fully and temporally, rather than to dissect architecture into a “document”of a “social,” “political,” “cultural,” or “material” history, supposedly capable of embracing it fully, but to which it is, in fact, subordinated.

Research paper thumbnail of What’s In a Relic?’, Oxford Art Journal, vol. 28 n.1, 2005, 119-124

Research paper thumbnail of Fabrications: New Art and Urban Memory in Manchester

Research paper thumbnail of The road not taken

Research paper thumbnail of Fabrications: New Art and Urban Memory in Manchester

Research paper thumbnail of The Road Not Taken. (Book review)

Research paper thumbnail of The Fetishized Past: Post-industrial Manchester and Interstitial Spaces

Research paper thumbnail of Architecture and Spiritual Life in Tridentine Naples

Research paper thumbnail of Mapping the early modern city

Urban History, 1996

This paper analyses in their political context the festival decorations created by Paolo Amato, a... more This paper analyses in their political context the festival decorations created by Paolo Amato, architect to the Senate of Palermo, in 1686 for the festival of the patron saint of that city. One of these decorations, that of the main altar in the cathedral, is of particular interest in that it represents a map of the city itself. An analysis of this map in relation to other seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century maps of Palermo reveals its political and social aim and biases, but also shows that it was unusually up to date and accurate as a representation of the city at that date. Such a representation not only marks a striking cul-de-sac in the history of the development of cartography, but sheds light on the relationship between forging politically acceptable identities for a city and their representation in the early modern period. The map in particular, but all the decorations, orapparati, in general are interpreted in the context of the weakened Spanish empire (to which Sici...

Research paper thumbnail of Indeterminacy and Architectural History: Deterritorializing Cosimo Fanzago’, field, vol. 1, September 2007, http://www.field-journal.org/

Research paper thumbnail of Deciphering the Hieroglyphics of the Modern Metropolis', Oxford Art Journal, vol.26 n.2, 2003, 181-186

Oxford Art Journal

Review of Neil Leach (ed.): The Hieroglyphics of Space: Reading and Experiencing the Modern Metro... more Review of Neil Leach (ed.): The Hieroglyphics of Space: Reading and Experiencing the Modern Metropolis (Routledge: London and New York, 2002.

Research paper thumbnail of Helen Hills with Paul Tyrer, ‘The Fetishized Past: Post-industrial Manchester and Interstitial Spaces', Visual Culture in Britain, vol.3, no.2, 2002, 103-118

Visual Culture in Britain

Research paper thumbnail of Deciphering the Hieroglyphics of the Modern Metropolis', Oxford Art Journal, vol.26 n.2, 2003, 181-186.

Research paper thumbnail of Mapping the Early Modern City

Research paper thumbnail of Monasteri Femminili aristocratici a Napoli e a Palermo nella prima età moderna e la "Conventualizzazione" della Città', in Fiume, G., (ed.), Il santo patrono e la città: San Benedetto il Moro: culti, devozioni, strategie di età moderna, Venice: Marsilio, 2000, 68-80.

Research paper thumbnail of The Road Not Taken', Oxford Art Journal, 20:1, 1997, 95-99.

Research paper thumbnail of Commonplaces: the Woman in the Street: Text and Image in the work of Jenny Holzer and Barbara Kruger',

in Mills, S., (ed.), Language and Gender: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, New York: Longman, 1995... more in Mills, S., (ed.), Language and Gender: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, New York: Longman, 1995, 240-256.

Research paper thumbnail of Urbanism in Siena: A Polite Tale of Patronage, Profit and Power

Research paper thumbnail of Deciphering the Hieroglyphics of the Metropolis

Oxford Art Journal, 2003

... The 'Filmic Metropolis' offers three tightly argued essays which resonate fruitfull... more ... The 'Filmic Metropolis' offers three tightly argued essays which resonate fruitfully with many of ... Pile acknowledges that the film explores a 'profoundly male, academic, white and middle class ... footsteps, and by hesitating to (genuinely) falter in his own confident analysis, he fails to ...

Research paper thumbnail of Review of New Approaches to Naples 16th Century Journal 2014-2

Research paper thumbnail of The road not taken

Research paper thumbnail of Deciphering te Hieroglyphics of the Modern Metropolis

Research paper thumbnail of The Uses of Images: WG Sebald & TJ Clark

Research paper thumbnail of THE USES OF IMAGES: WG SEBALD & TJ CLARK

Research paper thumbnail of Half-Forgotten Streets: Architecture and Amnesia in Manchester’, in M. Crinson, H. Hills, & N. Rudd, (eds), Fabrications: New Art and Urban Memory in Manchester, Manchester: UMiM, 2002, 32-39

Research paper thumbnail of Helen Hills with Paul Tyrer, ‘The Fetishized Past: Post-industrial Manchester and Interstitial Spaces', Visual Culture in Britain, vol.3, no.2, 2002, 103-118.

Research paper thumbnail of Towards Histories of Emotions

Research paper thumbnail of P. Gouk and H. Hills, ‘Towards Histories of Emotions’, in P. Gouk & H. Hills (eds), Representing Emotions: New Connections in the Histories of Art, Music and Medicine, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004, 15-34

Research paper thumbnail of Alberti and Affetti: Architecture and Edification’, in P. Gouk & H. Hills, (eds), Representing Emotions: New Connections in the Histories of Art, Music and Medicine, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004, 89-108

Research paper thumbnail of Towards Histories of Emotions

Research paper thumbnail of Towards Histories of Emotions

Research paper thumbnail of Representing Emotions: New Connections in the Histories of Art, Music and Medicine

Page 1. REPRESENTING EMOTIONS f i '. ", Edited by nelope Gouk snrl elen Hills N... more Page 1. REPRESENTING EMOTIONS f i '. ", Edited by nelope Gouk snrl elen Hills New Connections in the Histories of Art, Music and Medicine Page 2. Page 3. Page 4. Page 5. REPRESENTING EMOTIONS This On© :7K-28XF Page 6. Page 7. ...

Research paper thumbnail of P. Gouk & H. Hills (eds), Representing Emotions: New Connections in the Histories of Art, Music and Medicine

Research paper thumbnail of The Representation of Women's Emotions in Medieval and Early Modern Culture

The Sixteenth Century Journal, 2006

Research paper thumbnail of From artist’s house museum to the everyday

OpenArts Journal, 2024

This essay traces the prevalent practices and habits of house museum visiting and curation to the... more This essay traces the prevalent practices and habits of house museum visiting and curation to the emergence of the practice of visiting artists’ homes and the development of the institution of the house museum in 19th-century Britain amongst rich famous male artists and middle-class visitors. It argues that those specific historical circumstances of the rise of both the practice of visiting artists’ houses and the growth of house museums continue to haunt the institution, presentation and interpretation of house museums to a remarkable degree.

Research paper thumbnail of Enchantment in Amherst: Why Visit and Artist's House?

OpenArts Journal, 2024

This essay explores the appeal of visiting the homes of famous people long dead – a common but cu... more This essay explores the appeal of visiting the homes of famous people long dead – a common but curious practice too often taken for granted – through the lens of a visit I made in 2014 to Emily Dickinson’s house in Amherst, Massachusetts. I suggest that this practice is the secularized counterpart of Catholic pilgrimages to and devotion at saints’ shrines, seeking grace or a miraculous intervention of some kind. And occasionally even now such things do take place.

Research paper thumbnail of Book Reviews: Moral Culture, Myth and Metropolis: Walter B and the City, Gender, Careers and Organisations: Current Developments in Banking, Nursing and Local Government, Women Headed Households, Kinship and Friendship in Modern Britain, Globalisation and the Postcolonial World: The New Political...

The Sociological Review, May 1, 1998

Research paper thumbnail of New Approaches to Naples c. 1500–c. 1800: The Power of Place ed. by Melissa Calaresu and Helen Hills

Research paper thumbnail of The Baroque

Fabrications, Dec 1, 2007

Research paper thumbnail of Nomadic Silver: Refinement, Transaction, Transformation

BRILL eBooks, Mar 1, 2023

Research paper thumbnail of Those who flee and those who see: Poussin’s drawing and withdrawing

Research paper thumbnail of Saints on the move and the choreography of sanctity

Research paper thumbnail of Theorizing the Relationships between Architecture and Gender in Early Modern Europe

Research paper thumbnail of Palermo

Research paper thumbnail of Villalpando, Juan Bautista

Research paper thumbnail of Silver saints

The matter of miracles, 2021

Research paper thumbnail of Miraculous witness

The matter of miracles, 2021

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