ARTH 400
MEDieval MEDiterranean: Artistic interactions across water Fall 2016
Division I
Cross-listed
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The constant contacts, in peace and war times, between the Latin West and the world of Islam, especially during the Middle Ages, formed and shaped the identities of both Christian and Muslim worlds. Moreover, these cultural clashes and artistic exchanges seemed on the one hand to consolidate identities and maintain barriers of differences but on the other hand to contribute to dynamic aesthetic conversations, enriching the visual cultures of both. In several moments in history, which, sometimes, can hardly be defined as convivencia, a new amalgamated aesthetic language was born. Trade with luxury goods and even the sack of works of art `sponsored’ and enhances visual dialogues between different religious cultures of the Mediterranean. In this seminar the routes and the `ambassadors’ of these exchange moments are discerned. The Mediterranean basin (between 800 to 1500 AD) is in focus. The mobile world around the shores of the Mediterranean Sea–from the far west district of al-Andalus and the city of Cordoba to the near Eastern metropolises of Cairo and Damascus–will be highlighted. Port cities such as Salerno, Amalfi, Genua, Mahdiyya, Venice, Palermo and Acre will be jointly discussed in order to draw a full and complete picture of the particular medieval art, which developed across the Mediterranean basin.
The Class: Limit: 16
Grading: yes pass/fail option, yes fifth course option
Enrollment Preferences: places for 8 undergraduates and 8 graduate students assured
Distributions: Division I
Notes: This course is cross-listed and the prefixes carry the following divisional credit:
ARTH 500 Division I ARTH 400 Division I

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