ABSTRACT
This companion examines the global Renaissance through object-based case studies of artistic production from Africa, Asia, the Americas, and Europe in the early modern period.
The international group of contributors take an art historical approach characterized by close analysis of form and meaning as well as function, and a focus on questions of crosscultural dialogue and adaptation. Seeking to de-emphasize the traditional focus on Europe, this book is a critical guide to the literature and the state of the field. Chapters outline new questions and agendas while pushing beyond familiar material. Main themes include workshops, the migrations of artists, objects, technologies, diplomatic gifts, imperial ideologies, ethnicity and indigeneity, sacred spaces and image cults, as well as engaging with the open questions of "the Renaissance" and "the global."
This will be a useful and important resource for researchers and students alike and will be of interest to scholars working in art history, visual culture, material culture, and Renaissance studies.
The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|98 pages
Workshops: Translations of Media and Techniques
chapter 162|4 pages
The Mechanics of Cultivating Desire
chapter 2.2|13 pages
Your Parcel Is on the Way
chapter 2.3|15 pages
Early Modern Artistic Globalization from Colonial Mexico
part II|110 pages
Terminology: Alternative Geographies and Temporalities
chapter 3.2|12 pages
Global Ivories
chapter 3.5|13 pages
A Global Experiment in Printing
chapter 3.7|16 pages
Otter Offerings
part III|114 pages
Transregional Emulations/Rethinking Empire
chapter 4.5|16 pages
The Art of the Book in Early Modern Kashmir
chapter 4.6|21 pages
Forging Cultural Universes in the Mediterranean Renaissance
part IV|112 pages
Literary and Material Poetics
chapter 5.1|17 pages
Renaissance as Refreshment in the Mughal Empire
chapter 5.2|15 pages
Iranian Blue-and-White Ceramic Vessels and Tombstones Inscribed with Persian Verses, C. 1450–1725
chapter 5.5|19 pages
A Painting of a Painting and a Boy on a Bottle
part V|152 pages
Translating the Sacred
chapter 6.2|18 pages
The Cotinga and the Hummingbird
chapter 6.4|17 pages
Pilgrims and their Objects as Agents of Cultural Hybridization
chapter 6.5|13 pages
Angels in a New Dimension
chapter 6.6|14 pages
Itinerant Sephardic Judaica
chapter 6.7|16 pages
Recounting Beads of History in the Conception of the Image of Our Lady of the Rosary of La Naval, Manila
chapter 6.8|13 pages
A Last Judgment Print from Flanders
part VI|97 pages
Constructed Spaces and Perspectives