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Courtly Mediators

By Clark, Leah R.

Courtly Mediators

By Clark, Leah R.

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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.
Product details
Number of Pages:
366
Release Date:
2023-08-03
Publication Date:
2023-08-03
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1009276212
ISBN13:
9781009276214
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
883 g
Height:
183 cm
Width:
260 cm
Thickness:
24 cm
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