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Article: Venice exhibit illuminates city as fulcrum between Muslim, Western worlds.
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- Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
- Article date:
- April 9, 2007
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Byline: Stephenson Swanson
NEW YORK _ Those who see the Christian and Islamic worlds as implacable foes, always destined to be at loggerheads, like to use the phrase "clash of civilizations" to describe the struggle. But a breathtaking new exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art here shows that for several hundred years during the Middle Ages, a Christian city and the Muslim lands of the Middle East not only tolerated each other, they profited handsomely from their relationship.
For Venice and the Islamic world, it was the cash of civilizations.
With almost 200 objects from more than 60 public and private collections, "Venice and the Islamic ...