Article: Islamic artifacts and cultural currents in the art of Carpaccio.

Carpaccio included a wide variety of Islamic objects in several of the religious narrative paintings he completed for Venetian scuole (confraternities) in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. They offer rare, contemporary visual testimony of the presence of such objects from the Islamic world in Venice among the luxuries with which the wealthy patricians and merchants of Venice surrounded themselves. Some of them, whether in general shape or particular detail, show clear parallels with surviving Mamluk, Ottoman, and Timurid manufactures. Others demonstrate additional cultural influences suggestive of the complex nexus of trade concerns and cultural styles in ...

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