islamic art architecture
Wednesday, June 12, 2013
Art > Islamic Art and Culture in the Renaissance—The True Moor of Venice
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Michael Barry, the Patti Cadby Birch Consultative Chairman, Department
of Islamic Art, MMA, presents this examination of the mysterious central
figure in one of the most enigmatic paintings of the Italian
Renaissance, Giorgiones "Three Philosophers" (Venice, 1504). The
discussion of this work, which is now in the Kunsthistoriches Museum in
Vienna, sheds light on the role that Islam and Islamic philosophy played
in late medieval and early Renaissance European perceptions.
Art > A World of Art: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Founded in 1870, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City is a
three dimensional encyclopedia of art history. Produced for Public
Television by Great Museums TV.
