Islamic art and Florence from the Medici to the 20th century
By: edited by Giovanni Curatola ; [exhibition curated by Giovanni Curatola ; catalogue essays, Alberto Boralevi, Giovanni Curatola [and seven others] ; English translations, Stephen Tobin]
Contributors: Museo nazionale del Bargello (Florence, Italy)
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Giunti Editore S.p.A.
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Firenze, Italia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 351
ISBN-13: 9788809872851
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Islamic art; Exhibitions; Collectors and collecting; History; Aussereuropäische Kunst; Islamische Kunst; Kulturaustausch; Kunsthandel; Rezeption; Bauhaus Dessau Bereich Architektur und Sammlungen; Bauhaus Dessau
Description: "This sumptuous exhibition of Islamic art is curated by Giovanni Curatola and organised by the Uffizi in partnership with the Museo Nazionale del Bargello. It offers visitors a unique opportunity to discover the knowledge, exchange, dialogue and mutual influence that existed between the arts of East and West. It is the result of an international scholarly advisory board which has been working with dedication for two years to select the exhibits and to prepare the catalogue with essays rich in scientific and historical research, designed to illustrate the extremely important role that Florence played in interfaith and intercultural exchange between the 15th and the early 20th centuries, not to mention Florence's age-old interest in the Islamic world. The leading role in this joint venture by the Uffizi and the Bargello is played by Islamic art with its superb carpets, its damascened acquamaniles and vases, its enamelled glass, its rock crystal, its ivory and its lustreware."--

"This sumptuous exhibition of Islamic art is curated by Giovanni Curatola and organised by the Uffizi in partnership with the Museo Nazionale del Bargello. It offers visitors a unique opportunity to discover the knowledge, exchange, dialogue and mutual influence that existed between the arts of East and West. It is the result of an international scholarly advisory board which has been working with dedication for two years to select the exhibits and to prepare the catalogue with essays rich in scientific and historical research, designed to illustrate the extremely important role that Florence played in interfaith and intercultural exchange between the 15th and the early 20th centuries, not to mention Florence's age-old interest in the Islamic world. The leading role in this joint venture by the Uffizi and the Bargello is played by Islamic art with its superb carpets, its damascened acquamaniles and vases, its enamelled glass, its rock crystal, its ivory and its lustreware."-- From Shamansky, www.artbooks.com
Notes: "Aula Magliabechiana, Delle Gallerie Degli Uffizi, Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence, 22 June - 23 September 2018"--title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [340]-351).
Table of contents: title: Florence alla domaschina  -- Giovanni Curatola; title: Decorative arts between Florence and the Near East during the Renaissance: a dynamic scenario  -- Marco Spallanzani; title: Islamic objects in the Florentine art of the Renaissance: fascination for the exotic becomes the 'modern manner' -- Catarina Schmidt Arcangeli; title: Levantine ceramics imported to Florence in the Renaissance and their influence on local production  -- Marino Marini; title: Islamic metal artifacts in Italy up to the 16th century  -- Claus-Peter Haase; title: Florence amd Islamic facrics  -- Elisa Gagliardi Mangilli; title: Collecting oriental carpets in Florence  -- Alberto Boralevi; title: The art of books  -- Claus-Peter Haase; title: Islamic weapons in the Medici armories  -- Marco Merlo; title: The collecting of Islamic art in Florence in the 19th and 20th centuries -- Alessandro Diana.