Unraveling the Threads: Exploring the Significance of Central Asian Textiles in Medieval Islamic and Byzantine Art

Location

Art Building, Room 200
2000 SW 5th Avenue
Portland OR 97201

Cost / Admission

Free

Please join us for a presentation about the fascinating interconnections across Central Asia and Europe in the past, when Professor Mariachiara Gasparini joins us at PSU as our third Mary Ausplund Tooze Endowed Visiting Professor of Islamic & Ancient Art.

December 1, 2023, 10:30 am in Art Building room 200

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Mariachiara Gasparini is an Assistant Professor at the University of Oregon whose research encompasses Chinese and Central Asian Art and Architecture, Asian Art, Silk Road Studies, Asian Textiles, Buddhist Art, and Sino-Iranian and Turko-Mongol Interactions.

Medieval church interior with gold mosaics depicting Christian themes with Islamic style ceiling decoration above.