The nomadic object : the challenge of world for early modern religious art / edited by Christine Gottler, Mia M. Mochizuki.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Göttler, Christine.

Mochizuki, Mia M.

Series:

Intersections 53.

Intersections, 1568-1181 ; Volume 53

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art and globalization--History.

Art and globalization.

Culture and globalization--History.

Culture and globalization.

Religious art.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (649 pages) : illustrations (some color).

Place of Publication:

Boston : Brill, 2017.

Summary:

At the turn of the sixteenth century, the notion of world was dramatically being reshaped, leaving no aspect of human experience untouched. The Nomadic Object: The Challenge of World for Early Modern Religious Art examines how sacred art and artefacts responded to the demands of a world stage in the age of reform. Essays by leading scholars explore how religious objects resulting from cross-cultural contact defied national and confessional categories and were re-contextualised in a global framework via their collection, exchange, production, management, and circulation. In dialogue with current discourses, papers address issues of idolatry, translation, materiality, value, and the agency of networks. The Nomadic Object demonstrates the significance of religious systems, from overseas logistics to philosophical underpinnings, for a global art history. Contributors are: Akira Akiyama, James Clifton, Jeffrey L. Collins, Ralph Dekoninck, Dagmar Eichberger, Beate Fricke, Christine Göttler, Christiane Hille, Margit Kern, Dipti Khera, Yoriko Kobayashi-Sato, Urte Krass, Evonne Levy, Meredith Martin, Walter S. Melion, Mia M. Mochizuki, Jeanette Favrot Peterson, Rose Marie San Juan, Denise-Marie Teece, Tristan Weddigen, and Ines G. Županov.

Contents:

Front Matter

Copyright page

Acknowledgements

Notes on the Editors

Notes on the Contributors

List of Illustrations

Connected Worlds-The World, the Worldly, and the Otherworldly: An Introduction / Mia M. Mochizuki

The World's 'Idols'

Extraordinary Things: 'Idols from India' and the Visual Discernment of Space and Time, circa 1600 / Christine Göttler

Arabic Inscriptions in the Service of the Church: An Italian Textile Evoking an Early Christian Past?* / Denise-Marie Teece

Materiality and Idolatry: Roman Imaginations of Saint Rose of Lima* / Tristan Weddigen

Parables of Contact

Ut Pictura Lex: Jan David, S.J., on Natural Law and the Global Reach of Christian Images / Walter S. Melion

Translating the Sacred: The Peripatetic Print in the Florentine Codex, Mexico (1575-1577) / Jeanette Favrot Peterson

The Value of Misinterpretation in Cultural Exchange: The Transfer of Christian Prints from the West to Japan / Yoriko Kobayashi-Sato

Propagatio Imaginum: The Translated Images of Our Lady of Foy / Ralph Dekoninck

Material Alchemies

'Mass' Produced Devotional Paintings in the Andes: Mobility, Flexibility, Visual Habitus* / Evonne Levy

Gems of Sacred Kingship: Faceting Anglo-Mughal Relations around 1600 / Christiane Hille

Cultured Materiality in Early Modern Art: Feather Mosaics in Sixteenth-Century Collections* / Margit Kern

Making Marvels-Faking Matter: Mediating Virtus between the Bezoar and Goa Stones and Their Containers* / Beate Fricke

Relic Values

Naked Bones, Empty Caskets, and a Faceless Bust: Christian Relics and Reliquaries between Europe and Asia during Early Modern Globalisation* / Urte Krass

Virgin Skulls: The Travels of St. Ursula's Companions in the New World / Rose Marie San Juan

Relic or Icon? The Place and Function of Imperial Regalia* / Akira Akiyama

Relics Management: Building a Spiritual Empire in Asia (Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries) / Ines G. Županov

'Netted' Works

The Seven Sorrows of the Virgin: Spreading a New Cult via Dynastic Networks* / Dagmar Eichberger

Early Modern Incense Boats: Commerce, Christianity, and Cultural Exchange* / Jeffrey L. Collins and Meredith Martin

Journeys, Real and Imaginary, in China and Europe: Cartography, Landscape, and Travel around 1600* / James Clifton

Arrivals at Distant Lands: Artful Letters and Entangled Mobilities in the Indian Ocean Littoral* / Dipti Khera.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.

ISBN:

90-04-35450-6

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004354500 DOI