An edition of Venice, Dürer, and the oriental mode (1982)
Venice, Dürer, and the oriental mode
By Julian Raby
Publish Date
1982
Publisher
Islamic Art Publications,Distributed by Sotheby Publications
Language
eng
Pages
100
Description:
This study aims to clarify Venetian Quattrocento Orientalism, which affected Durer and thus Northern Europe, and to define the sources and practitioners of its Oriental motifs. At the end of the fifteenth century a large number of paintings were produced in Venice that depict exotic animals and figures set against the backdrop of Oriental architecture. It was Europe's earliest attempt to portray Muslims in a Muslim habitat, but it was more than a vague and ill-informed evocation of the East. Realistic in many of their details, these Orientalist pictures reflect the Serenissima's political and mercantile links with the fifteenth century Islamic Empires of the Eastern Mediterranean.