Courtly Mediators by Leah R Clark
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.
'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
'… Clark's work will be of great benefit to future research on a wide range of topics, such as the cultural ramifications of the conquest of Otranto, the multi-layered complexity of transcultural exchanges between Italian and Hungarian courts, and the careers of individual artists like Costanzo da Ferrara who moved between Terrara, Naples and Istanbul in the 1470s and 1480s.' Robert Brennan, Renaissance Studies
'… Clark's work will be of great benefit to future research on a wide range of topics, such as the cultural ramifications of the conquest of Otranto, the multi-layered complexity of transcultural exchanges between Italian and Hungarian courts, and the careers of individual artists like Costanzo da Ferrara who moved between Terrara, Naples and Istanbul in the 1470s and 1480s.' Robert Brennan, Renaissance Studies
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).
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| ISBN 13 | 9781009276214 |
| ISBN 10 | 1009276212 |
| Title | Courtly Mediators |
| Author | Leah R Clark |
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| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 2023-08-03 |
| Number of pages | 350 |
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