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Ivory and Gold: Islamic Spain and the Trans-Saharan Trade
With Miriam Rosser-Owen
Description
Join a curator from the Victoria and Albert Museum as she explores the cross-cultural relationship that produced some of the most beautiful objects of the medieval period. Thanks to close ties with the Berber tribes of western North Africa, the caliphs of 10th-century Córdoba, in Spain, minted gold coins, wove silks with gold thread, illuminated manuscripts with gold leaf, and made historically significant ivory artworks. Miriam Rosser-Owen delves into the culture and politics behind the creation of these precious courtly objects.
This talk is free with the purchase of Museum Admission.
This talk is free with the purchase of Museum Admission.
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