"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"
1. Introduction: Teaching the Global Renaissance 2. Workshops: Translations of media and techniques 2. Introduction to Part 1: The Mechanics of Cultivating Desire: Connecting Early Modern Objects, Artisans, and Workshops 2.1 Between Cairo and China: Design, Paper, and Ottoman Metalwork c. 1500 2.2 Your Parcel is on the Way: Netherlandish Carved Altarpieces as Exported Products in the Early Sixteenth Century 2.3 Early Modern Artistic Globalization from Colonial Mexico: The Case of Enconchados 2.4 Nanban Lacquer: Global Styles and Materials in a Japanese Cabinet 2.5 The Global Renaissance in Colonial Mexico: The Case of Talavera Poblana Ceramics 2.6Material Histories of Whiteness and Jingdezhen Porcelain 3. Terminology: Alternative Geographies and Temporalities 3. Introduction to Part 3: The ‘Renaissance,’ the Revenant: A Hauntology of Art History 3.1 Sovereign Time: A Clockwork Art History 3.2 Global Ivories: cross-cultural appropriations, dialogues, and (dis)connected art histories between Europe and South Asia 3.3 Palermo’s Renaissance Misfit 3.4 Materials and Medallions: Picturing Global Objects from Early Modern Paris 3.5 A Global Experiment in Printing: The Circulation of the Nestorian Stele from Xi’an 3.6 Decentering the Renaissance: Afro-Eurasian Itineraries of Mamluk Metalwork 3.7 Otter Offerings: Indigenous Art History and Extractive Ecologies in the Circumpolar North 4.Transregional Emulations/Rethinking Empire 4. Introduction to Part 4: The Mimetics and Discontents of Empire 4.1 Sigismund III of Poland, Persian Carpets, and the Pitfalls of Provenience 4.2 The Mughal Imperial Image between Manuscript and Print 4.3 Saved by Medusa: The Medici Moor from the Bargello to the Met Breuer 4.4 Benin Ivory Pendant Pair: Honoring an Ambitious Mother 4.5 The Art of the Book in early modern Kashmir: The case of an Illuminated Manuscript of Dīwān-i Hāfiz 4.6 Forging cultural universes in the Mediterranean Renaissance: Altarpieces in Sardinia, prints by Raphael and connections with the Flemish and Spanish worlds 5. Literary and material poetics 5. Introduction to Part 5 5.1 Renaissance as Refreshment in the Mughal Empire: Floral Carpets and the Tarz-i Taza (Fresh Style) in Seventeenth-Century South Asia 5.2 Iranian blue-and-white underglaze-painted ceramic vessels and tombstones inscribed with Persian verses, c. 1450–1700 5.3 How to Read a Chinese Painting in a European Book 5.4 I Was Made from Earth: A Rhineland Archeological Discovery, 1572 5.5 A Painting of a Painting and a Boy on a Bottle: Thresholds of Image in Early Modern Iran 5.6 The Global Air: Atmospherics in Chinese Ink Painting in the Seventeenth Century 6. Translating the sacred 6. Introduction to Part 6 6.1 Space, Time and Power in an Ethiopian Icon, ca. 1500 6.2 The Cotinga and the Hummingbird: Material Mobilities in the Early Colonial Featherworks of New Spain 6.3 Goa Dourada: The Tomb of St. Francis Xavier in Portuguese India 6.4 Pilgrims and their Objects as Agents of Cultural Hybridization: the English Alabaster Altarpiece of Santiago de Compostela, Spain 6.5 Angels in a New Dimension: Christian Tapestries and the Southern Andean Religious Tradition 6.6 Itinerant Sephardic Judaica: from Dutch ports to the harbours of Europe and the Americas 6.7 Recounting Beads of History in the Conception of the Image of Our Lady of the Rosary of La Naval, Manila 6.8 A Last Judgment print from Flanders: paths of Michelangelo towards Spanish America 6.9 Visualizing Faith: The Emerald Buddha in fifteenth-century Northern Thailand 7. Constructed Spaces and Perspectives 7. Introduction to Part 7 7.1 Towers, Travel, and Architectural Habits 7.2 The church of Our Lady of the Rosary of Black People in Salvador (Brazil), and the enslaved painter António Telles at Olinda 7.3 A Mobile Shrine: The Global Cult of the Santa Casa 7.4 The Great Mosque of Kilwa: An Architectural Lodestone 7.5 Beijing and Beyond: Imperial Landscapes and Early Modern Cosmopolitan Rulership in Qing-era
Stephen J. Campbell is Henry and Elizabeth Wiesenfeld Professor in the Department of the History of Art at The Johns Hopkins University. Stephanie Porras is Chair of the Newcomb Art Department and Professor of Art History at Tulane University.
