Courtly Mediators: Transcultural Objects between Renaissance Italy and the Islamic World

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Leah R. Clark (University of Oxford)

Courtly Mediators

Transcultural Objects between Renaissance Italy and the Islamic World

Leah R. Clark (University of Oxford)

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Cambridge University Press
03 August 2023

History of art & design styles: c 1400 to c 1600; Renaissance art; History of art & design styles: c 1600 to c 1800; Ceramic arts, pottery, glass; Early modern history: c 1450 to c 1700

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.

By: Leah R. Clark (University of Oxford)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 259mm, Width: 182mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 910g
ISBN: 9781009276214
ISBN 10: 1009276212
Pages: 350
Publication Date: 03 August 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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 d”Este's camerini; 5. From the Silk Roads to the court apothecary: aromatics and receptacles; Conclusion: arresting mobility.

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).

Reviews for Courtly Mediators: Transcultural Objects between Renaissance Italy and the Islamic World

'Clark makes sophisticated arguments of considerable interest to art historians … in an effort to capture the complex geographical processes at work as objects move and change as they move, and how originating places, entrepots, and destinations change as objects move through them … Her book … is highly recommendable for those interested in the geographical turn in material cultural studies and in the intriguing and beautiful objects themselves.' Elizabeth Baigent, Journal of Historical Geography