Title Courtly mediators : transcultural objects between Renaissance Italy and the Islamic world / Leah R. Clark, University of Oxford

Published Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, [2023] ©2023

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 336 pages) : illustrations (some color) 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 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"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 08, 2023) Subject Art and globalization -- Italy -- History -- To 1500 Art and globalization -- Italy -- History -- 16th century Art objects -- Collectors and collecting -- Italy Art and globalization Art objects -- Collectors and collecting Commerce Courts and courtiers SUBJECT Italy -- Court and courtiers Mediterranean Region -- Commerce -- History -- To 1500 Mediterranean Region -- Commerce -- History -- 16th century Subject Italy Mediterranean Region Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2022055182 ISBN 9781009276191 1009276190 1009276174 9781009276177

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