Edited by Francesca Fiorani

 This special issue of the journal is devoted to the interactions between the physical space of buildings and sites and the virtual space of site-specific visual images. While the painted representation of urban settings, architecture, landscapes, and buildings as backdrops to scenes has been amply examined, essays in this volume engage with visual images that that have been purposefully planned and designed to actively interact with the physical space in which they are contained. Consideration is also given to programmatic iconographies the meaning of which is amplified by the real space of the architecture, as well as to modalities by which architectural spaces are enhanced by their wall decoration. Essays may analyze site-specific images in any media—glass, tapestry, painting, tarsia, mosaic—and from any geographical area in Europe and around the Mediterranean, spanning from the late middle ages to the seventeenth century, that interact with urban spaces, or with secular or religious buildings, or with ephemeral structures, always keeping front and central their relation with the physical space. These images may represent architectural spaces, landscapes, buildings, lands, and territories, in any form or system of representation—perspectival views, bird's-eye views, or plan views.

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Deadlines
15 July 2026: deadline for submission of abstract (max 2000 characters) and a short CV (max 1000 characters)
30 July 2026: notification of acceptance
15 November 2026: essay submission
31 December 2027: publication