Many Christians of the Crusades poured into the Arab region, and many literary works and mythological tales of the Arab state were also transmitted orally among European folk by these Christians back to their homelands, and the Arabic literary masterpiece "One Thousand and One Nights" was widely circulated at this time before the publication of European translations in the 18th century, and the Renaissance writer Boccaccio's Decameron was identical in story content and writing form to "One Thousand and One Nights".
From the eleventh century to the end of the thirteenth century, the large-scale translation movement of Christian monks in the Western world, accompanied by the deep contact between Europe and the Muslim world in the Crusade movement, the Western movement of Eastern culture also kicked off here, many Greek philosophical works introduced to the East in the era of Alexander's crusades, have been lost in Europe for thousands of years, the translation and commentary of Arab philosophers and the introduction of Aristotle's ideas in Arabic translation, so that European scholasticism began to develop. In 1203, the Fourth Crusade captured Constantinople, and the Greek texts that the Crusaders seized from the Byzantine Empire, including philosophy, mathematics, astronomy, medicine, architecture, etc., paved the way for the arrival of the European Renaissance. Byzantine art is the essence of Oriental West Asian art, on the basis of the transplantation of ancient Greek art and Roman art, the integration of extremely rich Eastern culture of various aspects, but at the same time mixed with the tradition of Western European art, but indeed the god of West Asian oriental art, Byzantine art unique carving techniques, plane carved fine figures and patterns, gold and silver handmade carving small crafts and other unique decorative meaning, constitute the unique oriental taste and artistic charm of Byzantine art.
Chinese silk was first transmitted to Persia by the Arabs, and the Persians during the Sassanid period were not only able to make silk themselves, but also to play artistic genius, pattern patterns and "can be separated from imitation to create completely new styles, their unique craftsmen, in the art world played a brilliant role, which spread to the West became the basis for understanding Roman art, that is, the basis of Byzantine art." "The oriental interest in art is most evident in the Renaissance works is the change of clothing, the clothing choice of medieval Europeans is linen, wool and leather, the noble knights in the crusades saw the clothing of oriental silk, amazed, exquisite oriental clothing with silk, silk satin, velvet, brocade texture and bright colors exquisite patterns, flexible and light texture convey the most essential charm of clothing, although in the ninth century China sericulture and silk weaving technology has begun to spread west, However, they were concentrated in the territory of India and the Persian Empire, and did not reach Europe until the late Middle Ages through Sicily and Spain, and the Crusades were also an important route of transmission. Bournois wrote in the book "The Silk Road": "The crusaders of the expedition, from Levander, were contaminated with a habit of pursuing luxury and luxury," and the American scholar Hitti also wrote in the General History of Arabia:
"So much so that there was a time when a European would not really feel that he was not really well-dressed without an oriental outfit." European early Renaissance painters, there are many Madonna genre paintings, the worship of the Virgin is also the main expression of Byzantine religious painting, with the Crusades, the process of oriental art westward, Renaissance painters on the Madonna paintings suddenly increased. Among the many portraits and paintings of the Madonna in the genre by the Renaissance painter Botticelli, there is a painting of "Madonna and Child" and "Madonna and Child and Angel" painted in 1470-1472, in which the lace turban of the Virgin is as thin as a cicada wing, and this oriental aesthetic taste is vividly expressed in the brush of Florentine painters. The painter Botticelli brought the unique charm of oriental silk fabrics to his most iconic painting "Spring", under the ingenious management and careful depiction of women's bodies in light yarn. The flower god dressed in Venus in the painting "The Birth of Venus" also has a unique oriental charm on the eastern pattern of his clothes. In terms of architecture, as we all know, the world's oldest glass industry production in Egypt and Phoenicia, glazed stained glass has long been widely spread in Syria, its brilliant color and texture are loved by people, introduced into Europe during the Crusades, becoming the glass windows commonly used in Western Gothic architecture, and the Gothic architecture constructed by the selection and use of unique materials in the East has gradually become part of the medieval architectural language of Western Europe.
More than a hundred years after the Crusades, late on Monday, May 28, 1453, on the eve of Constantinople's fall to the Turkish army, the Virgin Mary came to her city for the last time to bring her portrait back to heaven – the end of the Byzantine Empire. With the Crusades, as the oriental art represented by Byzantium spread westward, the center of art shifted to Europe, and many great artists: Giotto, Botticelli, Gilberti, etc. have appeared in Florence, and a grand artistic movement in Europe is brewing - that is, the European Renaissance.
