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Oversize Paperback. Condition: Fine. Exhibition catalog for a show held at the publisher's gallery. Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 143 pages with color illustrations throughout, map, prints. Includes Bellini's (workshop of) The Circumcision, showing a baby getting it, placidly looking up while his tiny digit get knifed by a guy with a beard about as big as the kid. A catalog for a joint Gardner Museum and National Gallery exhibition examining the influence of Byzantine and Islamic art on the Bellini family of painters, focusing on Gentile Bellini's visit to the court of Mehmed II in 1479 and the exchange of objects, styles, and aesthetics between Venice and the East. Keywords: Gentile Bellini, Mehmed II Portrait, Ottoman Venice, Cardinal Bessarion, Byzantine Reliquary, Islamic Objects, Venetian Trade, Gardner Museum, Jacopo Bellini, Giovanni Bellini, Seated Scribe, Cultural Fusion 2.…