Article: Venice and the Islamic World: "[This] is the first major exhibition to explore one of the most important and distinctive facets of Venetian art history: the exchange of objects and interchange of ideas between the great Italian maritime city and her Islamic neighbors in the Eastern Mediterranean.".(The World Yesterday)(Critical essay)

Article: Venice and the Islamic World
USA Today;  May 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... around the world, "Venice and the Islamic World, 828-1797" is the ... contribution to the arts of Venice during her heyday ... important early presence in Venice were medieval Islamic ... Venetian interest in the Islamic world peaked. This is abundantly ...

Article: Venice and the Islamic world: An alliance of ...
International Herald Tribune;  September 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... the paradoxes of Venice's engagement with the Islamic world. This high-ceilinged ... place. In fact, Venice seldom joined such ... technology from the Islamic world, and long remained ... as votive lamps in Venice and as mosque lamps ...

Article: The Pride of the Orient; A new exhibit in Paris explores the ...
Newsweek International;  November 6, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... pragmatic contact with the Islamic world which led to an exchange ... mutually beneficial." "Venice and the Orient, 828 ... threaded textiles made in Venice, the exhibit vividly ... s contact with the Islamic world catalyzed intellectual ... later in the Lagoon of Venice. In fact, ...

Venice and the East: The Impact of the Islamic World ...
History: Review of New Books;  September 22, 2000 ;     661 words ...Howard, Deborah Venice and the East: The Impact of the Islamic World on Venetian Architecture ... Mediterranean world. Because Venice and the Islamic world emerged together from ... commercial profits, and Venice was the starting point ...

Article: "Venice and the Islamic World, 828-1797" ...
The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs;  July 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ...THE MAGICAL CITY of Venice, the exotic world of Near Eastern ... s Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Venice and the Islamic World, 828-1797," organized by Met ... displays maps showing routes from Venice to Cairo, Alexandria and Damascus ...

Article: From the Islamic world to Renaissance Italy.
The Magazine Antiques;  June 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... and sea that has never been limited to the select few. The Islamic world, which was geographically enormous, was known to western ... By the thirteenth century, these techniques had reached Venice, where Byzantine enamelers were settling. This enabled the ...

Article: Venice exhibit illuminates city as fulcrum between Muslim, ...
Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL);  April 9, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... their relationship. For Venice and the Islamic world, it was the cash of civilizations ... private collections, "Venice and the Islamic World, 828-1797" documents ... the influence of the Islamic world on Venice is clear," said Carboni ...