A 13th-century fresco rediscovered in Ferrara, Italy, provides unique evidence of medieval churches using Islamic tents to ...

Unsurprisingly, the emergence of Orientalist art in the 19th ... of North Africa and the Islamic faith that he converted to,” says de Guise. Osman’s 1880 oil painting, Young Woman Reading ...

Christians in medieval Europe admired Islamic art without fully realising it ... Depictions of Islamic textiles survive, in traces, on some church walls in Italy as well as in Italian paintings ...