Genoa and the Christian East : artistic exchanges in the late Middle Ages
Journal: Warwick Research Archive Portal (University of Warwick)
Year: 2020

This thesis explores the generally little-studied history of art in medieval Genoa and the manifestations of Eastern Christian cultures in the city from the late twelfth to the fourteenth centuries. The study is structured in accordance with the main sites that house examples of the city’s ties with the Eastern Mediterranean. Chapter 1 is centred on the Hospitallers’ complex of San Giovanni di Pré and aims to include the frescoes of the lower church in the disputed phenomenon of ‘crusader art’ a