Dorothy M. Shepard
"Venice and the Islamic World, 828–1797" Symposium. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. April 22, 2007
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2006
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September 12, 2007
Gentile Bellini. Portrait of Sultan Mehmet II (1480). Oil on canvas. 25 5/8 x 20 1/2 in. (65 x 52 cm). The National Gallery, London.
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On April 22, 2007, the Metropolitan Museum of Art sponsored a symposium to discuss issues surrounding the exhibition Venice and the Islamic World, 828–1797. The symposium brought together a group of experts on the interactions between Venice and Islam. In his introduction to the symposium, Stefano Carboni, curator of the exhibition and administrator of the Department of Islamic Art at the Metropolitan Museum, emphasized the three concepts governing the exhibition: to show the reasons why...