An Islamic tent in S. Antonio in Polesine, Ferrara

• Autores: Federica Gigante
• Localización: Burlington magazine, ISSN 0007-6287, Vol. 167, Nº 1463, 2025 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Bartolini and Scotland), págs. 80-95
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The late thirteenth-century fresco in the apse of S. Antonio in Polesine, Ferrara, might be the only surviving full-size representaton of a portable Islamic tent from this period. Serving as a virtual baldachin over the high altar, the tent recalls descriptions of the Andalusi structures seized during the wars of Christian expansion into al-Andalus. Its extraordinarily precise, illusionistic details suggests that it depicts an actual object, thereby providing vital testimony of the practice of displaying and reusing Islamic textiles in a Christian context