Global designs

Fourteenth-century monumental civic artworks from Pisa, Venice, and Genoa employed Old Testament narratives and cartographic references to assert Mediterranean dominance and legitimize global imperial claims. The Pisan Camposanto’s frescoes depicted two millennia of Pisan influence, positioning the city as a global center. Genoa’s San Lorenzo Cathedral inscribed its empire’s origins in Abrahamic lineage, while Venice’s Palazzo Ducale façade integrated Old Testament imagery with diplomatic allusions to Mongols and Turks. These monuments synthesized pagan and Judeo-Christian knowledge, using the Old Testament as a framework for evolving spatial and temporal conceptions that shaped Renaissance-era European worldviews.

Haakenson, H. (2015). Global designs. No Publisher Supplied. https://doi.org/10.7282/T3XG9ST0