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Author Harper, JamesG

Title ""The Turk and Islam in the Western Eye, 1450?750 "" : Visual Imagery before Orientalism
Published Florence : Taylor and Francis, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (342 pages)
Series Transculturalisms, 1400-1700
Transculturalisms, 1400-1700.
Contents Cover ; Half Title ; Title Page ; Copyright Page ; Table of Contents ; List of illustrations; List of contributors; 1 Introduction; Part I Venice ; 2 The sultan's true face? Gentile Bellini, Mehmet II, and the values of verisimilitude; 3 Black Turks: Venetian artists and perceptions of Ottoman ethnicity; 4 "And the moon has started to bleed": Apocalypticism and religious reform in Venetian art at the time of the Battle of Lepanto; 5 Punchinello meets the Turk: Giambattista Tiepolo's chorus of Oriental spectators and the transformation of cultural Otherness; Part II Italy and Europe
6 Bipolar behavior: Ferdinando I de' Medici and the East7 Dürer's depictions of the Ottoman Turks: A case of early modern Orientalism?; 8 East is East: Images of the Turkish nemesis in the Habsburg world; 9 The barbarous and noble enemy: Pictorial representations of the Battle of Lepanto; Part III Beyond Europe ; 10 Picturing the Ottoman threat in sixteenth-century New Spain; 11 The Frank in the Ottoman eye of 1583; Selected secondary bibliography; Index
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Form Electronic book
Author Jones, Professor Ann Rosalind
Singh, Professor Jyotsna
Suzuki, Professor Mihoko
ISBN 9781351539869
1351539868