Enlightenment · Middle East · Culture

1663

Ottoman Carpet Trade Peaks in Europe

1663

Anatolian and Persian carpets flooded European markets through Venice, Marseilles, and Amsterdam, decorating the floors and tables of the burgeoning merchant class. Painters from Holbein to Vermeer rendered them with painstaking care. The knotted geometry of the Islamic East had become the most coveted household luxury in the Christian West.

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Before and after in Middle East

Before: 1645: Venetians Besiege Ottoman Crete
After: 1666: Sabbatai Zevi Converts to Islam

Before and after in Culture

Before: 1660: Rembrandt's Last Self-Portrait Period
After: 1664: Moliere's Tartuffe Banned

Era

Enlightenment (1651–1800), one of 696 events from that era on Saeculum.