Global Interests : #Renaissance Art between #East and #West: East and West fixed each other with an equal reciprocal gaze… by Lisa Jardine and Jerry Brotton.
European civilization defined itself between 1450 and 1550. Over this period Europe was in trading terms with the East, and notably with the #Ottoman_Empire of #Mehmet the Conqueror and Süleyman the Magnificent. The authors analyze cultural exchanges taking place between East and West, relationships between Hapsburg emperors, Kings of Europe and Ottoman sultans, through “portraits medals”, “tapestries”, and “equestrian art”.
“Boundaries between […] East and West were thoroughly permeable in the Renaissance”.
It might seem surprising for a contemporary audience, but the image of Saint George slaying a dragon, for example, was used in both Eastern and Western churches, sitting in a pivotal position “on the permeable boundary between East and West”.
►http://eastwestwesteast.wordpress.com/2012/04/11/renaissance-art-between-east-and-west