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...social and cultural diversity of fifteenth-century Venice and how they affected the city’s art. In particular it focuses on Venice’s relations with the East and its several manifestations, the legacy of Orthodox Christian Byzantium, and the contemporary Islamic societies of the Ottomans and Mamluks. Studying Venice and its art thus offers a challenge to the...

...work. You will be focusing on the way that one author, Helen Langdon, has used biography in her book about one artist, Caravaggio. In order to get the most out of studying this course you will need access to a copy of this book (ISBN 071266582x) You will look in detail at the methods she has used to approach her subject and the different kinds of primary sources available...

...work that way for you? EMMA DARWIN: I’m equally fascinated and exasperated. I mean John Gardner in The Art of Fiction talks about how it’s… we have to get our reader to agree to forget that this stuff never happened in a novel, that’s the contract, and their side of the contract is that they will set aside their underlying knowledge that this is made up. And in...