Project description
Byzantine luxury artefact trade in 10th–16th centuries
The Mediterranean was experiencing an active market of luxury artefacts between the 10th and 16th centuries. The artefacts were often inscribed in Latin and originating from the Byzantine East. Nevertheless, little is known about the artistic exchanges of that period. Supported by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions programme, the TRAD-ART-BYZ project explores luxury art markets on both shores of the Mediterranean. It will address questions related to the manufacture process, patrons of the arts, iconography and types of scripts in inscribed artefacts. The study will cover the period from the 10th century until the Ottoman invasion of Cyprus in 1571. It will consider the contribution of cross-cultural artistic exchange to the Mediterranean economy and cultural unity of medieval Europe.
Objective
By focusing on an undervalued field of research, the proposed project will explore, within an interdisciplinary framework, the
relationship between the luxury art markets on the two shores of the Mediterranean Sea. A series of high-status artefacts, inscribed in
Latin (at times in other languages, too), but produced in the Byzantine East, provides the source material for the project, which will
focus both on the artistic exchanges and on the processes of production and distribution of works of art. The purpose is to study
these processes by simultaneously focusing on the issues of manufacturing methods, patronage, iconography, and epigraphic habits,
with a special attention being paid to the choice of scripts and languages on inscribed artefacts. The chronological coverage will span
the 10th century (the first testimonies to the presence of the Amalfitan community in Constantinople) and 1571 (the conquest of
Cyprus by the Ottomans). One of the project’s broader objectives is to move beyond the study of single ethno-linguistic narratives,
and to determine the significance of cross-cultural artistic interaction for the development of a Mediterranean economic system and
of cultural diffusion and integration in medieval Europe.
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