The Venetian Alternative Mary Bergstein 2015 Venezianit View

The Venetian Alternative Mary Bergstein 2015 Venezianità

View of Venice Petrarch, 1304 -1374

Mediterranean Sea Green = to Venice Red = from Venice Venetian trade-routes

Romanitas Venezianità

Chalice of the Patriarchs Byzantine, Constantinople = Istanbul Treasury, San Marco

“Molo” of the Piazzetta in “acqua alta” = high water

Venezia San Marco in “acqua alta” = high water

Basilica of Saint Mark = San Marco 828 -14 th century AD

Mosaic dome of San Marco, 12 th century (Byzantine)

Tomb of a “Dogaressa” Made with spoglia = spoils Gold mosaic Hardstone pavement Atrium, San Marco

“Lotto” Carpet, Western Anatolia, 16 th century

Lorenzo Lotto 1547 Family of Giovanni della Volta London NGA

Silk Road/ Routes Overland sea from Venice

Marco Polo 1254 -1324 In Tatar Costume

Marco Polo Venetian 1254 -1324 In Tatar Costume Kublai Khan 1260 -1294 Grandson of Ghengis Khan Emperor of Yuan Dynesty Marco Polo lived in his Court

Ibn Baṭūṭah Mohammad Ibn Battuta explored Asia and Africa Tangier, Morocco 1304 -1377 http: //www. fordham. edu/halsall/source/1354 -ibnbattuta. asp Fordham University Medieval Sourcebook

Timbuktu, Mali Granada, Spain

Venetian Painting ca. 1410 Italian brocade, Lucca, cq. 1410 Japanese Textile, Nara Period Textiles in motion on the Silk Route

Paolo Veneziano Coronation of the Virgin Mary By Christ in Heaven Panel painting Ca. 1345 Venice, Accademia

Carpet from a Synagogue 15 th c Islamic Carpet

Persian (Iranian) Carpet

Syrian Bowl Venice, Treasury of San Marco

Drinking Beakers from Syria

Mosque Lamp Glass Venice Treasury

Fourteenth-century Islamic Manuscript Mosque Lamps

Venetian Glass 15 -16 th centuries

Venetian Mirrors 18 th century

Giovanni Bellini 1515 Bellini was the teacher of Giorgione and Titian Girl with a Mirror Vienna Kunsthistorisches Museum Bellini’s first female nude age 85