Jan Hasištejnský z Lobkovic
A Fifteenth-Century Czech Traveler to the Mediterranean World
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21222545 |
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| Authors | Laura Lisy-Wagner (San Francisco State University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 72-78 |
| Publication date | 2012-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Review of Middle East Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2151-3481 • E-ISSN: 2329-3225 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s2151348100003013 |
| OpenAlex | W2586318783 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 4 |
In 1493, a Czech nobleman named Jan Hasištejnský z Lobkovic embarked on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. As nearly all Central European pilgrims did, he traveled south through the Tyrol to Venice and joined a large, multinational group there before setting out across the Mediterranean. He remained nearly a month in Venice, meeting prominent political figures, visiting churches and cloisters, and admiring the realism of the painting and sculpture of the Venetian quattrocento . Among all the other marvels of Venice that he describes in his 1505 travelogue is the memory of his day trip to the island of Murano. “In this little town,” he writes, “there are, I think, close to seventy artisans or more, and all are glass makers.” He describes some of the fine works that he saw there, and eagerly adds, “and there is always a great quantity of these various things completed, so that whoever arrives wants to buy something of it.” In this moment, the fifteenth-century tourist is not that far removed from his counterpart in the twenty-first century
Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Art history · Czech · Fifteenth · Geography · Literature · Pilgrimage · Political science · Politics · Sculpture · Tourism · Travel writing · Classics · Historical and Cultural Studies of Poland · Historical Influence and Diplomacy · History · Law · Medieval European History and Architecture · Philosophy
| Highly cited | No |
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