Turks in the Teleri? Interpreting Earrings, Stripes, and Veils in Carpaccio's Narrative Cycles
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3513865 |
|---|---|
| Authors | C Wilde (0000-0002-8807-7410, University of Auckland, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 10 |
| Pages | 1260 |
| Publication date | 2025-09-30 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Religions (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2077-1444 • E-ISSN: 2077-1444 |
| Publisher | MDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT) |
| DOI | 10.3390/rel16101260 |
| OpenAlex | W4414662104 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 46 |
The first monographic exhibition dedicated to Vittore Carpaccio (ca. 1460-1525) in the US, and the first outside of Italy, was hosted at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, from 20 Nov 2022 to 23 February 2023 (from where it went to Venice). Building on the research of art historians and experts on Venice and the larger Mediterranean region in the early modern period, this paper examines Carpaccio's depiction of various "Turks" in some of the large narrative painting cycles (teleri) commissioned by the devotional confraternities (scuole) in Renaissance Venice. While Carpaccio's and the larger Venetian familiarity with Islam, including Turks, has been studied, this paper compares various female figures in the St. Stephen cycle with those in his St. George cycle, situating them in the larger historical context of the commissioning scuole (Scuola di Santo Stefano and Scuola di San Giorgio degli Schiavoni, respectively). While attempting to uncover the significance, if not the identities, of a few individuals who stand out from the crowd, this paper urges caution when attempting to discern social history from a painting, much as we take literary texts (particularly those written well before our own times) with a grain of salt
Depiction · Exhibition · Narrative · Painting · Project commissioning · The Renaissance · Early Modern Spanish Literature · Hispanic-African Historical Relations · Spanish Literature and Culture Studies
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Civic Piety and Patriotism
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| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |