The Land Between Two Seas: Art on the Move in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea 1300-1700

✍ Scribed by Alina Payne

• Publisher: Brill
• Year: 2022
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 408
• Series: Mediterranean Art Histories, 5
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

"The Land Between Two Seas: Art on the Move in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea 1300-1700 focuses on the strong riverine ties that connect the seas of the Mediterranean system (from the Western Mediterranean through the Sea of Marmara, the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov) and their hinterland. Addressing the mediating role of the Balkans between East and West all the way to Poland and Lithuania, as well as this region's contribution to the larger Mediterranean artistic and cultural melting pot, this innovative volume explores ideas, artworks and stories that moved through these territories linking the cultures of Central Asia with those of western Europe"--

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Acknowledgments
Figures
Notes on Contributors
From Riverbed to Seashore: An Introduction
Part 1 The Adriatic
Chapter 1 The Late Sixteenth-Century Ship in the Adriatic as a Cultural System
Chapter 2 Peripheral or Central? The Fortification Architecture of the Sanmichelis in Dalmatia
Chapter 3 Daniel Rodriga’s Lazaretto in Split and Ottoman Caravanserais in Bosnia: The Transcultural Transfer of an Architectonic Model
Chapter 4 The Villa in Renaissance Dubrovnik: “Where Art Has Tamed Wild Nature”
Chapter 5 Visualizing Illyrianism in Urban VIII’s Rome
Part 2 The Black Seafrom the Dardanelles to the Sea of Azov
Chapter 6 “Vampire Trouble Is More Serious Than the Mighty Plague”: The Emergence and Later Adventures of a New Species of Evildoers
Chapter 7 Transcultural Ornament and Heraldic Symbols: An Investigation into the Aesthetic Language of Early Modern Crimea and the Northern Black Sea Shore (Thirteenth–Sixteenth Centuries)
Chapter 8 Romes Outside of Italy: Alevisio Novy and the Circulation of Renaissance Architecture in Muscovy and the Crimea
Chapter 9 The Mangalia Mosque in the Waqf Empire of an Ottoman Power Couple: Princess İsmihan Sultan and Sokollu Mehmed Pasha
Chapter 10 Goldsmithery Made for the Cantacuzini: How Şeytanoğlu’s Descendants Made the Arts Flourish in Wallachia
Chapter 11 The Reliquary of St. Niphon: Relations between Wallachia, Constantinople, and Mt. Athos
Chapter 12 Between Venice and the Danube: Hieromonk Makarije and His Cyrillic Incunabula at the Turn of the Sixteenth Century
Part 3 The Danube and Beyond
Chapter 13 Between Worlds: Ottoman Heritage and Its Baroque Afterlife in Central Europe
Chapter 14 Portability, Mobility, and Cultural Transfers—Wooden Church Architecture in Early Modern Banat: The Case of the St. Paraschiva Wooden Church in Crivina de Sus
Chapter 15 Ottoman and Persian Luxury between Fashion and Politics: The Armenian Merchant Network and the Making of Sarmatian Culture in Early Modern Poland-Lithuania
Chapter 16 Sociability Seeps through the Lower Danube: The Introduction of Coffee to Moldavia and Wallachia in the Seventeenth Century
Chapter 17 On the Road to the “New Empire”: The Afterlife of Roman and Byzantine Porphyry and the White Marble Tradition in Central Europe during the Early Modern Era
Index