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Persian Carpets and Renaissance Revivals: A Cross-Cultural Itinerary
Category
Lectures
Date
Thursday, 3rd May 2018 18:00 - 19:00
Venue
The Courtauld Institute of Art - The Sackler Research Forum
This talk will trace the history and fate of a prominent Safavid (16th century) medallion carpet. The piece had been traded to Europe probably at some point in Early Modern history, was purchased in Venice in the late 19th century by Renaissance connoisseur and museum man Wilhelm Bode, was displayed as one of the core pieces of the “Persian-Islamic Department” of the Berlin Museums after 1904, destroyed during the Second World War, and resurrected by means of restoration and publication in the 1950s.
All Dates
- Thursday, 3rd May 2018 18:00 - 19:00
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