Art and Culture on the Silk Roads

Course description

Learn the history of the Silk Roads through artifacts and narratives, exploring how this network of long-distance trade routes facilitated the expansion of exchanges among diverse cultural groups connected along these routes. Different groups of nomadic and sedentary populations who traversed various cultural zones of Eurasia, regardless of the purpose of their journeys, played a significant role in transmitting ideas, forms and meanings between the East and West. Artists, artisans, scholars, travellers, merchants and emissaries, among many others, all contributed to varying degrees to these transcultural interactions.