New publication Genoa and Venice Overseas
People, Power, and Art, 13th to 16th Century
edited by Rebecca Müller und Rafał Quirini-Popławski
Genoa and Venice, as leading maritime powers in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea, founded numerous trading posts and “colonies”. These foundations fostered intense transfer processes, widespread mobility—far beyond elite circles—and a constant exchange of raw materials, goods, and objects. The resulting entanglement of spaces, practices, and visual cultures poses particular challenges for research. This volume brings together contributions from two conferences held in Heidelberg and Kraków. The authors—historians and art historians from different fields—explore the premodern Mediterranean and Black Sea regions, focusing not only on the “mother cities” and the comparison between them, but above all on regions often studied separately due to disciplinary divisions, political circumstances, and the linguistic diversity of the source material and literature: Eastern European realms, Byzantium, the Aegean, Cyprus, the Golden Horde and the Crimean Khanate, and the Iberian Peninsula.
Rebecca Müller is a professor of art history at Heidelberg University, specialising in the Middle Ages. Her research focuses in particular on the reception of antiquity, artists’ concepts, and objects and artists within transcultural dynamics.
Rafał Quirini-Popławski is Associate Professor of Medieval and Byzantine Art History at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. His research interests include late medieval art in the Mediterranean and Black Sea areas, with particular emphasis on the Genoese outposts; Romanesque art in Poland; as well as cataloguing historical monuments, both in Poland and Ukraine.
