Venice and the East The Impact of the Islamic World on Venetian Architecture, 1100-1500

Name: Venice and the East The Impact of the Islamic World on Venetian Architecture, 1100-1500
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ISBN: 9780300085044

ISBN-10: 0300085044

ISBN-13: 9780300085044

Edition: 2000

Authors: Deborah Howard

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This is an investigation of the influence of oriental travel and trade on medieval Venice and its architecture. Deborah Howard argues that many Venetians gained insight into Islamic culture through personal contacts with their Moslem trading partners.

Book details

List price: $90.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 9/10/2000
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 300
Size: 1.00" wide x 1.15" long x 0.11" tall
Weight: 4.334
Language: English



Acknowledgements


Foreword


Introduction


Venice


Architectural orientalism


The stato da mar as a mirror of the East


The Islamic city as a typology



Trade and Travel


Trade


Preparatory briefings


Education


The ritual of departure


The voyage


Naval architecture


Disembarkation


Colonies


Colonial administration


Class and gender in the colonies


Colonial buildings


Moslem links



Transmission and Propagation


Agencies of transmission


The writings of travellers


The mirror of the familiar


Physical and mental responses


Oral narratives


Memory


The transmission of architectural information through two-dimensional images


Portable objects


Propagation



San Marco


Apostles and epistles


Venice and Alexandria


Egyptian settings in the mosaics


The first Marcian mosaic cycle


The atrium mosaics


Books and mosaics


The Cappella Zen


The facade mosaics


The last Venetian Pharos


Architectural orientalisation



The Merchant City


The fashioning of Venice's townscape


Forma urbis


The Rialto market


The markets of the eastern Mediterranean


Eastern characteristics at the Rialto


Telling the time


The fondaco


The Venetian fondaco



Palaces


Merchants at home


Plan


Facades


The development of Venetian Gothic


The ogee arch and the East


Facade decoration


Colour


Windows


The 'mihrab window'


Balconies


The altana


Interiors


Courtyards


Minor and collective housing


The corporate identity of the patrician merchant class



The Palazzo Ducale


The project


The design


Islamic characteristics


Solomonic imagery


The capitals


The interiors



The Pilgrim City


Medieval pilgrimage to the Holy Land


The pre-pilgrimage tour


Paradise


The Holy Land


The Temple Mount and the Holy Sepulchre


Venice as a transmitter of materials and craftsmen for buildings


The east-west transmission of images by pilgrims


The influence of pilgrimage on Venetian architecture


Resume


Conclusion



Letter of Benedetto Sanudo, son of Matteo, to his brother Andrea


Notes


Glossary


Bibliography


Index


Photograph Credits