Durers Knots - Susan Dackerman

An Important Examination Of Islamic Themes In The Art Of Albrecht Dreralbrecht Drers Depictions Of Muslim Figures And Subjects Are Considered By Many To Be Among His Most Perplexing Images. This Confusion Arises From The Assumption That The Artist And His Northern European Contemporaries Regarded The Muslim Levant As An Exotic Faraway Land Inhabited By Hostile Adversaries, Not A Region Of Neighboring Empires Affiliated Through Political And Mercantile Networks. Susan Dackerman Casts Drers Art In An Entirely Light, Focusing On Prints That Portray Cooperation Between The Muslim And Christian Worlds Rather Than Conflict And War, Enabling Us To Better Understand Early Modern Europe Through Its Visual Culture.