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Courtly Mediators Leah R. Clark (University of Oxford)

Courtly Mediators By Leah R. Clark (University of Oxford)

Courtly Mediators by Leah R. Clark (University of Oxford)


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This book will appeal to anyone interested in Renaissance culture and more specifically the art and material culture of the Italian Renaissance courts and their relationship with other courts across the Mediterranean including the Mamluks and Ottomans.

Courtly Mediators Summary

Courtly Mediators: Transcultural Objects between Renaissance Italy and the Islamic World by Leah R. Clark (University of Oxford)

InCourtly 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 articulatinghow 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.

About Leah R. Clark (University of Oxford)

Leah R. Clark is Associate Professor of History of Art in the Department for Continuing Education and Fellow of Kellogg College at the University of Oxford. She is the author of Collecting Art in the Italian Renaissance Court (2018) and co-editor, with Kathleen Christian, of European Art and the Wider World, 1350-1550 (Manchester University Press, 2017).

Table of Contents

1. Diplomatic entanglements: mediating objects and transcultural encounters; 2. Mobile things/mobile motifs: ornament, language, and haptic space; 3. The peregrinations of porcelain: from mobility to frames; 4. Fit for the gods: porcelain in Alfonso dEste's camerini; 5. From the Silk Roads to the court apothecary: aromatics and receptacles; Conclusion: arresting mobility.

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NPB9781009276214
9781009276214
1009276212
Courtly Mediators: Transcultural Objects between Renaissance Italy and the Islamic World by Leah R. Clark (University of Oxford)
New
Hardback
Cambridge University Press
2023-08-03
350
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