The Venetian Alternative Mary Bergstein 2015 Venezianità
View of Venice Petrarch,
Mediterranean Sea Venetian trade-routes Green = to Venice Red = from Venice
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 th century AD
Mosaic dome of San Marco, 12th century (Byzantine)
Tomb of a “Dogaressa” Made with spoglia = spoils Gold mosaic Hardstone pavement Atrium, San Marco
“Lotto” Carpet, Western Anatolia, 16th century
Lorenzo Lotto 1547 Family of Giovanni della Volta London NGA
Silk Road/ Routes Overland and sea from Venice
Marco Polo In Tatar Costume
Marco Polo Venetian In Tatar Costume Kublai Khan Grandson of Ghengis Khan Emperor of Yuan Dynesty Marco Polo lived in his Court
Ibn Ba ṭ ū ṭ ah Mohammad Ibn Battuta explored Asia and Africa Tangier, Morocco Fordham University Medieval Sourcebook
Timbuktu, Mali Granada, Spain
Textiles in motion on the Silk Route Japanese Textile, Nara Period Venetian Painting ca Italian brocade, Lucca, cq. 1410
Paolo Veneziano Coronation of the Virgin Mary By Christ in Heaven Panel painting Ca Venice, Accademia
Carpet from a Synagogue 15th cIslamic 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 15-16th 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
Giorgione, “Sleeping Venus” Dresden, Museum of Paintings Girolamo Marcello, married 1510
Venice versus Florence
Book cover design 2014
Giorgione, “Sleeping Venus” Girolamo Marcello, married 1510
Titian, “Venus” of Urbino, 1538 Florence, Uffizi
Urbino
Titian, “Venus” of Urbino, 1538 Florence, Uffizi
Detail, “Venus” of Urbino
“La Bella” Titian
Giorgione, ca Titian, 1538
Titian, Rape of Europa 1562 Boston, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum * mimesis >>>> mimetic brushstrokes
Titian, Self-portrait Titian, Portrait of Pietro Aretino
“Titian --- where are you now?”