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Islamic Art, Culture and Political Iconography in the Works of two Venetian Renaissance Painters – Girolamo and Francesco da Santa Croce

The trade contacts which Venice maintained with the Orient are unparalleled in European history. Peacetime conditions of the earlier epochs were replaced by sharpened political rhetoric between the Venetian Republic and the Ottoman Empire, which particularly escalated in the mid 16th century, and culminated with the War of Cyprus. The aim of this paper is to comment on how two Venetian Renaissance painters, Girolamo and Francesco da Santa Croce, both active in the 16th century, responded to the impulses presented by Islamic art and culture and political events of the period, or more precisely, to demonstrate how the contacts with Islam, cultural interaction and political propaganda influenced the iconography in their paintings.

Santa Croce ; painting ; iconography ; Venice ; Islamic art

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