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Letter
‘Caravans of Gold’
09/2020 | 1410 | 162
Pages: 728
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Author:
Bickford Berzock, Kathleen (Bickford Berzock, Kathleen)
Author:
Fili, Abdallah (Fili, Abdallah)
Author:
Messier, Ronald A. (Messier, Ronald A.)
Subjects
museums and institutions:
Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Evanston, United States
subjects:
Exhibition reviews / North African / East-West trade / Archaeology
Exhibition Review
Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time: Art, Culture, and Exchange across Medieval Saharan Africa
07/2020 | 1408 | 162
Pages: 606-609
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Reviewer:
Rosser-Owen, Mariam (Rosser-Owen, Mariam)
Subjects
media:
Gold / Glassware / Metalwork / Ceramics
museums and institutions:
Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington, United States
styles:
Arabian / North African
subjects:
East-West trade / Merchants / Africans / Medieval / Umayyad / Fatimid
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time: Art, Culture, and Exchange across Medieval Saharan Africa Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington 8th April–29th November | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
6. Detail from the Atlas of Maritime Charts (Catalan Atlas) showing Mansā Mūsā, by Abraham Cresques. 1375. Parchment. (Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, MS Espagnol 30; exh. Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington).
Non-western art unattributed:
7. Seated figure. c.1300. Copper with traces of arsenic, lead and tin, height 54 cm. (Nigerian National Commission for Museums and Monuments, Abuja, Nigeria; exh. Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington).
Western art unattributed:
5. Glazed ceramic jar inscribed ‘albaraka’ (‘blessing’), produced at Murcia or Almeria. 1150–1200. (Musée archéologique de Rabat, Morocco; photograph Moroccan- American Project, Sijilmasa, 1988; exh. Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington).
Western art unattributed:
8. Jug with royal arms of England. English, c.1390– 99. Copper alloy, height 62.3 cm. (British Museum, London, England; exh. Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington).
Book Review
Le Maroc médiéval: Un empire de l’Afrique à l’Espagne, Y. Lintz, C. Déléry and B.T.Leonetti, eds.
12/2015 | 1353 | 157
Pages: 855
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Reviewer:
Rosser-Owen, Mariam (Rosser-Owen, Mariam)
Subjects
dates:
2010-2019
museums and institutions:
Musée du Louvre, Paris, France / Musée Mohammed VI d'Art Moderne et Contemporain, Rabat, Morocco
subjects:
Exhibition catalogues / Cultural history / North African / Mediterranean / Medieval / Historiography
Illustrations
Non-western art unattributed:
42. Le 'grand lustre' from the al-Qarawiyyin Mosque in Fez, hanging at the entrance to the exhibition Maroc médiéval. Un empire de l'Afrique à l'Espagne at the Musée du Louvre, Paris (October 2014 to January 2015)
Non-western art unattributed:
43. Wall painting from one of the houses discoverd during the excavations of the al-Qarawiyyin Mosque, before 1134