Baghdad’s Grand Medieval Bazaars: How They Influenced Renaissance Art

Karima Alavi and Joan Brodsky Schur

National Council for the Social Studies, Denver, CO, 2010

Bibliography

Brotton, Jerry. The Renaissance Bazaar: From the Silk Road to Michelangelo. Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2002.

Eaton, Richard M. Islamic History as Global History. Washington, D.C., American Historical
Association, 1990. (Essays on Global Comparative History series)

Levenson, Jay. Circa 1492: Art in the Age of Exploration. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of
Art, 1991.

Liu, Xinru. The Silk Road: Overland Trade and Cultural Interactions in Eurasia. Washington,
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Mack, Rosamond. Bazaar to Piazza: Islamic Trade and Italian Art, 1300-1600. Berkeley:
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Rossabi, Morris et al. From Silk to Oil: Cross Cultural Connections Along the Silk Roads, A
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Websites

Dar al Islam Teacher’ Institute:

www.daralislam.org (at the top, click on Programs and Teachers’ Institute)

Smithsonian Institution (Freer and Sackler galleries of Asian art)

(great source of images to use for your power point presentations)
http://www.asia.si.edu/

Indian Ocean and World Trade:

http://www.indianoceanhistory.org/

Web Gallery of Art (great source of images to use for your power point presentations)
http://www.wga.hu/

Venice and the Islamic World exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
http://www.metmuseum.org/special/se_event.asp?OccurrenceId={2F178712-5011-4C93-8BE1-
05845F1C62E6}