“Reflect-Wear” Art and Healing in Medieval Anatolia Two Bronze Mirrors in the Detroit Institute of Arts
Abstract
Two bronze mirrors in the Islamic art collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) raise questions about their meanings and uses among the Armenian, Byzantine, and Persian-Islamic communities in Anatolia between the late eleventh and early fourteenth centuries.
Bihter Esener
College Fellow
I am an art historian of the visual and material cultures of the medieval Islamic world, with a special interest in Armenian, Byzantine, and Persian-Islamic artistic exchange and cultural encounters in medieval Anatolia, the South Caucasus, and the Eastern Mediterranean. I teach medieval Mediterranean and Islamic art in the Department of Art History at Northwestern University. My research interests also include the collection and display of Islamic art in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the history of sports, environmental studies, digital art history, visualization, and game studies.