Venice and the East: The Impact of the Islamic World on Venetian Architecture Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Venice and the East: The Impact of the Islamic World on Venetian Architecture Book

Based on wide-ranging, multi-disciplinary research, this book examines the mechanisms that governed the exchange of visual culture across ideological boundaries before the age of printing. Howard explores a range of building types that reflect the...Read More

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    An investigation of the influence of oriental travel and trade on mediaeval Venice and its architecture. Deborah Howard argues that many Venetians gained insight into...

  • Product Description

    Venetian merchants of the Middle Ages imported more than precious spices and textiles from the far reaches of the eastern Mediterranean, they also acquired a wealth of visual ideas and information from Islamic culture, this book shows. Architectural historian Deborah Howard explores the range of buildings that reflected Muslim imagery and discusses the complexities of importing such ideas to an unambiguously Christian city.

  • 0300085044
  • 9780300085044
  • D Howard
  • 1 September 2000
  • Yale University Press
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 300
  • illustrated edition
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