ARTH 28.09 Mobility in the Early Modern Mediterranean

In early modernity, innovations in art and architecture moved freely between the Italian and Islamic worlds, creating a shared language that crossed cultural and geographical boundaries in the Mediterranean. This introductory course will focus on exchanges between urban centers such as Venice, Florence, and Pisa and the Mamluk Sultanate, the Safavid Empire, and the Ottoman Empire in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. We will consider a wide range of case studies, from traveling artists and architects in foreign courts to the appropriation of objects, monuments, and histories. Throughout, we will question how transcultural mobility developed against a backdrop of military strife, political rivalry, and religious tension. The course includes frequent visits to the Hood Museum of Art.

Instructor

Kassler-Taub

Cross Listed Courses

MES 18.02

Degree Requirement Attributes

Dist:ART; WCult:W

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Offered

• Spring