Lecturer: Prof. Marco Spallanzani University of Florence, Italy

Marco Spallanzani, art history professor at the University of Florence, was the guest speaker of a lecture held at the Moshe Tabibnia Gallery on 31 October 2006. On such occasion, the scholar disclosed some interesting results of his research on oriental carpets in Renaissance Florence, which was expected to be published in a forthcoming book: Oriental Rugs in Renaissance Florence. Presenting some beautiful illustrations, and a vast selection of iconographic and literary sources (mainly from Florentine archives), Professor Spallanzani offered an insight into the Florentine market of oriental carpets in the 15th and 16th centuries.