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Yannis Hadjinicolaou is a research fellow in the humanities at NYU Abu Dhabi. His research interests\u00a0are:\u00a0Art and art theory of the Early Modern Period,\u00a0Theory\u00a0and history of the history of art, Synagonism in the Arts, Political Iconography and Falconry. In NYUAD he will be working on a project entitled, Falconry in Art: A Heritage in Global Perspective.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n Falcons and the Arab world are closely intertwined. Falcons are symbols of power, freedom and an integral part of the UAE\u2019s cultural heritage. What prompted you to work on the pictorial history of falconry? What does falconry as a cultural practice signify? How much does nature still reside in falconry? [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Yannis Hadjinicolaou is a research fellow in the humanities at NYU Abu Dhabi. His research interests\u00a0are:\u00a0Art and art theory of the Early Modern Period,\u00a0Theory\u00a0and history of the history of art, Synagonism in the Arts, Political Iconography and Falconry. In NYUAD he will be working on a project entitled, Falconry in Art: A Heritage in Global […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":672,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-special-feature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nyuad.nyu.edu\/earthumanities\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nyuad.nyu.edu\/earthumanities\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nyuad.nyu.edu\/earthumanities\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nyuad.nyu.edu\/earthumanities\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nyuad.nyu.edu\/earthumanities\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1051"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nyuad.nyu.edu\/earthumanities\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1054,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nyuad.nyu.edu\/earthumanities\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051\/revisions\/1054"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nyuad.nyu.edu\/earthumanities\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nyuad.nyu.edu\/earthumanities\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nyuad.nyu.edu\/earthumanities\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nyuad.nyu.edu\/earthumanities\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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At NYUAD, \u00a0I will pursue a\u00a0project focusing on the pictorial history of falconry, which has largely been neglected by art historians and cultural historians alike. There is great potential in its global reach.\u00a0Already Friedrich the Second wrote in the 13th century (in his\u00a0De Arte Venandi cum Avibus\u00a0based heavily on Arab sources) that he gathered different falconers from four continents to practice this noble sport in his court. This shows the combination of political power or the\u00a0cura\u00a0publica\u00a0and falconry as a metaphor that is being reflected in a number of emblems and images in the Early Modern period, which will be the frame of the present investigation.\u00a0The crucial role of the Mediterranean world in transferring knowledge, images, practices and the instruments of falconry from the Arab Peninsula and Asia to medieval and early modern Europe will be highlighted.\u00a0At the same\u00a0time\u00a0it will be shown that certain pictorial traditions and media starting from Europe and the U.S. reach the Arab Peninsula today.<\/span><\/p>\n
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The interaction of nature and culture reveals itself in the interaction of the bird of prey and the falconer, between untamed and tamed. The different techniques of learning this art and training the falcon as well as transferring its knowledge as an intangible cultural heritage will be of central importance for the present study.<\/span><\/p>\n
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The transformation of\u00a0a\u00a0natural into a political\u00a0landscape and\u00a0the\u00a0falcon, flying high above the territory, substitutingtheruler, defines the core of the falconry\u00b4s iconic power (as you\u00a0can for instance\u00a0see in the picture from Sambucus Emblems entitled Cura Publica, 1564).\u00a0As a long iconographic tradition\u00a0highlights, rulers and falcons were often associated with each other.\u00a0Culture, the ruler\u2019s handling of the falcon, was thus turned into nature, and\u00a0vice versa\u00a0nature \u2013 the prey killed by the falcon \u2013 could be turned into\u00a0culture, into hunting trophies, -pictorial or physical \u2013 \u00a0collected by the ruler.<\/span><\/p>\n