Venice and the Ottoman Empire: A Tale of Art, Culture, and Exchange

$75.00 at Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

by Stefano Carboni (Editor) Accompanying a major traveling exhibition, this book examines the unique artistic and cultural exchange between the Republic of Venice and Turkish Ottoman culture and identity over a three-hundred-year period.From the early Renaissance to the end of the eighteenth century, Venice held a central position in the global trade network. This book explores how artistic and cultural ideas originating in the Ottoman Empire arrived in Venice and were reinterpreted through the decorative…