BBCNEWS The Travel Show July 13, 2024
Exploring how western artists have been influenced by the islamic world, is opening at the british museum. Will gompertz reports. Laid out before us, 500 years of inspiration, appropriation and exchange between the islamic world and the west. A near conversation between two cultures, whose artists were intrigued and influenced by each other. So, this room demonstrates the Cultural Exchange between the west and the east, or the west and the orient. Two dishes, which you would think are made at the same time, because theyre nearly identical. But this one, here, was actually made in the 19th cent...