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Courtly mediators : transcultural objects between Renaissance Italy and the Islamic world / Leah R. Clark, University of Oxford.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Clark, Leah Ruth, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Art and globalization--Italy--History--To 1500.
- Art and globalization.
- Art and globalization--Italy--History--16th century.
- Art objects--Collectors and collecting--Italy.
- Art objects.
- Italy--Court and courtiers.
- Italy.
- Mediterranean Region--Commerce--History--To 1500.
- Mediterranean Region.
- Mediterranean Region--Commerce--History--16th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xx, 336 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2023.
- Summary:
- In Courtly Mediators, Leah R. Clark investigates the exchange of a range of materials and objects, including metalware, ceramic drug jars, Chinese porcelain, and aromatics, across the early modern Italian, Mamluk, and Ottoman courts. She provides a new narrative that places Aragonese Naples at the center of an international courtly culture, where cosmopolitanism and the transcultural flourished, and in which artists, ambassadors, and luxury goods actively participated. By articulating how and why transcultural objects were exchanged, displayed, copied, and framed, she provides a new methodological framework that transforms our understanding of the Italian Renaissance court. Clark's volume provides a multi-sensorial, innovative reading of Italian Renaissance art. It demonstrates that the early modern culture of collecting was more than a humanistic enterprise associated with the European roots of the Renaissance. Rather, it was sustained by interactions with global material cultures from the Islamic world and beyond.
- Contents:
- Diplomatic Entanglements: Mediating Objects and Transcultural Encounters
- Mobile Things/Mobile Motifs: Ornament, Language, and Haptic Space
- The Peregrinations of Porcelain: From Mobility to Frames
- Fit for the Gods: Porcelain in Alfonso d'Este's camerini
- From the Silk Roads to the Court Apothecary: Aromatics and Receptacles
- Conclusion: Arresting Mobility.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 01 Aug 2023).
- Other Format:
- Print version:
- ISBN:
- 9781009276191 (ebook)
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