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Anxieties and Influences: Italian Cultural Entanglements with the Ottoman Empire, 1400 - 1600

Eisensmith, Jacob (2024) Anxieties and Influences: Italian Cultural Entanglements with the Ottoman Empire, 1400 - 1600. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh. (Unpublished)

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Abstract

My dissertation focuses scholarly attention to early modern Southern Italy, linking it more cohesively with prior scholarship that considers Italy within an international context during the early modern period (c.1350-1600). This project focuses on artworks that reveal the cross-cultural interaction and movement between various Italian sites and the Ottoman empire during the early modern period. It aims to highlight the interconnectedness and reliance of Italian city-states on bordering cultures as they crafted their own local artistic identities. By focusing on geographic regions that fall beyond most accounts of Renaissance art, this dissertation builds on recent scholarship that has sought to expand the Italian Renaissance through re-examining both geographic and cultural peripheries. This project places Italian artistic culture directly into dialog with other cultures, though with a different focus than much of the work that has recently examined artistic exchange in the Renaissance. By focusing on understudied Italian sites and broadening the kinds of objects considered within art history, this dissertation expands recent scholarship by integrating sites in Southern Italy historically understudied into the ongoing discourse of “Global Renaissance”. This project argues that cultural forms of the local must be thought of within horizontal, contemporary cultural networks and vertical, sedimented histories, especially as applied to Mediterranean port cities, as prime sites of cultural-contact and migration. Through Archival research in sites often relegated to the margins, like Venetian Dalmatia or Puglia, reveals how integrated these sites were within the cultural networks of the early modern Mediterranean.


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Item Type: University of Pittsburgh ETD
Status: Unpublished
Creators/Authors:
CreatorsEmailPitt UsernameORCID
Eisensmith, Jacobjake.eisensmith@gmail.comjme83
ETD Committee:
TitleMemberEmail AddressPitt UsernameORCID
Committee ChairNygren, Christophercnygren@pitt.edu
Committee MemberFozi, Shirinshirin.fozi@metmuseum.org
Committee MemberRajagopalan, Mrinalinimrr55@pitt.edu
Committee MemberHosseini, Saharshosseini@pitt.edu
Committee MemberShalem, Avinoamas4501@columbia.edu
Date: 4 March 2024
Defense Date: 25 March 2024
Approval Date: 27 August 2024
Submission Date: 8 April 2024
Access Restriction: 2 year -- Restrict access to University of Pittsburgh for a period of 2 years.
Number of Pages: 220
Institution: University of Pittsburgh
Schools and Programs: Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences > History of Art and Architecture
Degree: PhD - Doctor of Philosophy
Thesis Type: Doctoral Dissertation
Refereed: Yes
Uncontrolled Keywords: Cultural Exchange, Mediterranean, Italian Renaissance
Date Deposited: 27 Aug 2024 13:31
Last Modified: 27 Aug 2024 13:31
URI: http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/id/eprint/46062

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