East-West Artistic Transfer through Rome, Armenia and the Silk Road

Name: East-West Artistic Transfer through Rome, Armenia and the Silk Road
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By Christiane Esche-Ramshorn

Series: Routledge Research in Art History

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East-West Artistic Transfer through Rome, Armenia and the Silk Road explores the vibrant cultural exchanges along the western Silk Road corridor, focusing on Armenian and Christian Oriental arts. It investigates the architecture and history of medieval pilgrim sites in the Vatican and lesser-known churches in Ethiopia and Armenia, highlighting influential artists and artefacts that traversed these regions. The book offers a fresh, non-Eurocentric perspective on the complex artistic interconnections between East and West before modern globalization.
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This book is ideal for scholars and enthusiasts of art history, architecture, missionary studies, trade routes, Middle Eastern art, and Southern Caucasus culture seeking to deepen their understanding of historical artistic exchange.

This book examines the arts and artistic exchanges at the ‘Christian Oriental’ fringes of Europe, especially Armenia. It starts with the architecture, history and inhabitants of the lesser known pilgrim compounds at the Vatican in the Middle Ages and Renaissance.

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This book examines the arts and artistic exchanges at the ‘Christian Oriental’ fringes of Europe, especially Armenia.

It starts with the architecture, history, and inhabitants of the lesser known pilgrim compounds at the Vatican in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, including those of Hungary and Germany, but especially the most ancient Churches of the Christian Orient, Ethiopia and Armenia. Without taking an Eurocentric view, East-West Artistic Transfer through Rome, Armenia and the Silk Road explores the role of missionaries, merchants, artists (for example, Momik, Giotto, Minas, Domenico Veneziano, Dürer), and artefacts (such as fabrics, inscriptions, and symbols) travelling in both directions along the western stretch of the Silk Road between Ayas (Cilicia), ancient Armenia, and Northwestern Iran. This area was truly global before globalisation and a site of intense cultural exchanges and East-West cultural transmissions.

This book opens a new research window into the culturally mixed landscapes in the Christian Orient, the Middle East, and North-eastern Africa by considering their many indigenous and foreign artistic components. It embeds Armenian arts into today’s wider art historical discourse.

East-West Artistic Transfer through Rome, Armenia and the Silk Road will be of interest to scholars in art history, architectural history, missions, trade, Middle Eastern arts, and the arts of the Southern Caucasus.