Redford, Scott (2012) 'Portable Palaces: On the Circulation of Objects and Ideas about Architecture in Medieval Anatolia and Mesopotamia.' Medieval Encounters, 18 (4-5). pp. 382-412.
Abstract
This essay examines two categories of portable objects: ceramics and ephemeral architecture (such as tents, palanquins, litters) for clues to the transmission of ideas about palatial architecture and the creation of a shared taste for a certain kind of palatial form and decoration between Christian and Muslim states whose artistic production is usually considered separately. The time period investigated is the twelfth to fourteenth centuries, and the geographical area investigated spans Constantinople, Anatolia and northern Mesopotamia. Without denying the importance of traveling craftsmen as vectors for artistic exchange, this essay argues that portable objects and portable or ephemeral architecture helped create the taste and demand for a supranational palatial architecture.
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| SOAS Departments & Centres: | Departments and Subunits > School of Arts > Department of the History of Art & Archaeology Legacy Departments > Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Department of History of Art and Archaeology |
| ISSN: | 13807854 |
| DOI (Digital Object Identifier): | https://doi.org/10.1163/15700674-12342117 |
| Date Deposited: | 26 Jul 2015 13:45 |
| URI: | https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/id/eprint/20265 |
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