Shining a spotlight on Armenians: exchanges on the Silk Road
This beautifully and effectively illustrated book explains the various contacts, and their contexts, between Armenians and persons from western Europe, especially Italy, in the period of the Crusades and Renaissance, in Italy and Armenia, and especially in Armenian Cilicia. These included an Armenia...
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Department of Art History, University of Birmingham
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| description | This beautifully and effectively illustrated book explains the various contacts, and their contexts, between Armenians and persons from western Europe, especially Italy, in the period of the Crusades and Renaissance, in Italy and Armenia, and especially in Armenian Cilicia. These included an Armenian compound at St. Peter’s, Rome, Roman Catholic missionary establishments in Armenian lands, and trade. Armenian involvement in the production of, and international trade in, luxury fabrics is emphasised. The author shows that western scholars of art history and of artistic transfer have largely neglected the role of Armenians in this, as also in the history of luxury textiles. She offers a discussion of ‘mutual cultural knowledge’ considering Italian influences on Armenians, and a series of case studies dated between the thirteenth and sixteenth centuries, mostly paintings, in which international artistic transfer is demonstrable. Attention is drawn to the use of foreign alphabets and inscriptions/pseudo-inscriptions in artworks. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-5ac77696b99a4d60ab27222bec3be8422024-02-02T11:59:08ZengDepartment of Art History, University of BirminghamJournal of Art Historiography2042-47522023-12-012929AER110.48352/uobxjah.00004327Shining a spotlight on Armenians: exchanges on the Silk RoadA.E. Redgate0Newcastle UniversityThis beautifully and effectively illustrated book explains the various contacts, and their contexts, between Armenians and persons from western Europe, especially Italy, in the period of the Crusades and Renaissance, in Italy and Armenia, and especially in Armenian Cilicia. These included an Armenian compound at St. Peter’s, Rome, Roman Catholic missionary establishments in Armenian lands, and trade. Armenian involvement in the production of, and international trade in, luxury fabrics is emphasised. The author shows that western scholars of art history and of artistic transfer have largely neglected the role of Armenians in this, as also in the history of luxury textiles. She offers a discussion of ‘mutual cultural knowledge’ considering Italian influences on Armenians, and a series of case studies dated between the thirteenth and sixteenth centuries, mostly paintings, in which international artistic transfer is demonstrable. Attention is drawn to the use of foreign alphabets and inscriptions/pseudo-inscriptions in artworks.https://arthistoriography.files.wordpress.com/2023/09/redgate.pdfaght’amararmeniaciliciainfluenceitalyinscriptionssilk |
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| title_short | Shining a spotlight on Armenians: exchanges on the Silk Road |
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