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 ...

"Public spats between the president and religious leaders, from priests to popes, are not unprecedented. Rather, they ...

Christians in medieval Europe admired Islamic art without fully realizing it ... From the 9th century, Popes often donated Tetravela (altar-curtains) to churches and papal records reveal that ...