In 1255, Pope Innocent IV sent "draperies of the finest silk and gold fabrics" to the convent ... This fresco provides crucial evidence of the influence of Islamic art on medieval European ...

An Andalusi tent taken from the campsite of the Almohad caliph Muhammad al-Nāsir was sent to Pope Innocent III after 1212 meaning that there was an Islamic tent in St Peter’s Basilica at some point ...