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Image: Unknown Artist, Tile commemorating the pilgrimage to Mecca (Turkish)
17th century, fritware ceramic, painted and glazed
60.8 x 38.5 x 6.4 cm (23 15/16 x 15 3/16 x 2 1/2)
© Victoria and Albert Museum, London Artistic Exchange on the Mediterranean Rim: Islamic, Byzantine, and European Art

October and November, 2004
East Building Auditorium
Held in conjunction with the exhibitions
Palace and Mosque:
Islamic Art from the Victoria and Albert Museum
and Artistic Exchange: Europe and the Islamic World Selections from the Permanent Collection

Part 1
October 3, 2004

Moderator: Rosamond E. Mack, independent scholar, Washington, D.C.

The Arts of Fire: Islamic Influences on Glass and Ceramics of the Italian Renaissance
Catherine Hess, associate curator, department of sculpture and decorative arts, J. Paul Getty Museum

Byzantium and the Islamic World: Cultural Confrontation, Artistic Interaction
Alicia Walker, lecturer, department of art history and archaeology, Columbia University

In the Footsteps of Marco Polo: Excavations at Medieval Kinet, Turkey
Scott Redford, director, McGhee Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies and associate professor, Georgetown University

Part 2
November 20, 2004

Moderator: Massumeh Farhad, chief curator and curator of Islamic art, Freer Gallery of Art/Arthur M. Sackler Gallery

Baubles from the East? Islamica in Medieval Europe
Julian Raby, director, Freer Gallery of Art/Arthur M. Sackler Gallery

Persian Picture Making and Chinese Manner
David J. Roxburgh, professor of the history of art and architecture, Harvard University

Palace as Crucible of the Arts
William L. Tronzo, professor of art history, Tulane University

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