The cross-cultural context of the Benaki chasuble: a safavid-renaissance velvet encounter

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Published: Aug 4, 2021
DOI: https://doi.org/10.12681/dchae.26263
Keywords:
17th century catholic vestments chasuble osmosis intercultural interaction Renaissance material culture Islamic art in Europe.
Νικόλαος ΒΡΥΖΙΔΗΣ (Nikolaos VRYZIDIS)
Art Historian, PhD
Abstract
An unpublished Catholic chasuble from the collection of the Benaki Museum is analyzed as a remnant of the Iranian textile trade in early modern Europe. Its contextualization proceeds from discussing the silk trade as a tool of Safavid diplomacy, and continues with considering the impact of Safavid silks on 17th-century European aesthetic. Moreover, the article’s discussion of the floral and animal motifs adorning the chasuble’s velvets points out to the formation of a common visual language in Christian vestments throughout Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean
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