1st Edition
The Routledge Companion to Global Renaissance Art
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
PART 1
Introduction: Teaching the Global Renaissance
Stephen J. Campbell and Stephanie Porras
PART 2
Workshops: Translations of Media and Techniques
2. The Mechanics of Cultivating Desire: Connecting Early Modern Objects, Artisans, and Workshops
Nancy Um
2.1 Between Cairo and China: Design, Paper, and Ottoman Metalwork c. 1500
Patricia Blessing
2.2 Your Parcel is on the Way: Netherlandish Carved Altarpieces as Exported Products in the Early Sixteenth Century
Hannah De Moor
2.3 Early Modern Artistic Globalization from Colonial Mexico: The Case of Enconchados
Sonia I. Ocaña Ruiz
2.4 Nanban Lacquer: Global Styles and Materials in a Japanese Cabinet
Anton Schweizer
2.5 The Global Renaissance in Colonial Mexico: The Case of Talavera Poblana Ceramics
Meha Priyadarshini
2.6 Material Histories of Whiteness and Jingdezhen Porcelain
Ellen Huang
PART 3
Terminology: Alternative Geographies and Temporalities
3. The Renaissance, the Revenant: A Hauntology of Art History
Kristopher W. Kersey
3.1 Sovereign Time: A Clockwork Art History
Samuel Frédéric Luterbacher
3.2 Global Ivories: Cross-Cultural Appropriations, Dialogues, and (Dis)Connected Art Histories between Europe and South Asia
Zoltán Biedermann
3.3 Palermo’s Renaissance Misfit
Elizabeth Kassler-Taub
3.4 Materials and Medallions: Picturing Global Objects from Early Modern Paris
Katherine Baker
3.5 A Global Experiment in Printing: The Circulation of the Nestorian Stele from Xi’an
Devin Fitzgerald
3.6 Decentering the Renaissance: Afro-Eurasian Itineraries of Mamluk Metalwork
Vera-Simone Schulz
3.7 Otter Offerings: Indigenous Art History and Extractive Ecologies in the Circumpolar North
Bart Pushaw
PART 4
Transregional Emulations/Rethinking Empire
4. The Mimetics and Discontents of Empire
Aaron M. Hyman
4.1 Sigismund III of Poland, Persian Carpets, and the Pitfalls of Provenience
Tomasz Grusiecki
4.2 The Mughal Imperial Image between Manuscript and Print
Yael Rice
4.3 Saved by Medusa: The Medici Moor from the Bargello to the Met Breuer
Mahnaz Yousefzadeh
4.4 Benin Ivory Pendant Pair: Honoring an Ambitious Mother
Kathy Curnow
4.5 The Art of the Book in Early Modern Kashmir: The Case of an Illuminated Manuscript of Dīwān-i Hāfiz
Hakim Sameer Hamdani and Mehran Qureshi
4.6 Forging Cultural Universes in the Mediterranean Renaissance: Altarpieces in Sardinia, Prints by Raphael, and Connections with the Flemish and Spanish Worlds
Maria Vittoria Spissu
PART 5
Literary and material poetics
5. Literary and Material Poetics
David Roxburgh
5.1 Renaissance as Refreshment in the Mughal Empire: The Floral Carpets of Lehore and the Tarz-i Taza (Fresh Style) in Seventeenth-Century South Asia
Sylvia Houghteling
5.2 Iranian Blue-and-White Ceramic Vessels and Tombstones Inscribed with Persian Verses, c. 1450–1725
Yui Kanda
5.3 How to Read a Chinese Painting in a European Book
Dawn Odell
5.4 I Was Made from Earth: A Rhineland Archeological Discovery, 1572
Allison Steilau
5.5A Painting of a Painting and a Boy on a Bottle: Thresholds of Image in Early Modern Iran
Margaret Graves
5.6 The Global Air: Atmospherics in Chinese Ink Painting in the Seventeenth Century
Lihong Liu
PART 6
Translating the sacred
6. Introduction to Translating the Sacred
Kelli Wood
6.1 Space, Time, and Power in an Ethiopian Icon, ca. 1500
Verena Krebs
6.2 The Cotinga and the Hummingbird: Material Mobilities in the Early Colonial Featherwork of New Spain
Allison Caplan
6.3 Goa Dourada: The Tomb of St. Francis Xavier in Portuguese India
Rachel Miller
6.4 Pilgrims and Their Objects as Agents of Cultural Hybridization: The English Alabaster Altarpiece of Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Zuleika Murat
6.5 Angels in a New Dimension: Christian Tapestries and the Southern Andean Religious Tradition
Maya Stanfield-Mazzi
6.6 Itinerant Sephardic Judaica: From Dutch ports to the Harbors of Europe and the Americas
Simona di Nepi
6.7 Recounting Beads of History in the Conception of the Image of Our Lady of the Rosary of La Naval, Manila
Regalado Trota José
6.8 A Last Judgment Print from Flanders: Paths of Michelangelo towards Spanish America
Agustina Rodríguez Romero
6.9 Visualizing Faith: The Emerald Buddha in Fifteenth-Century Northern Thailand
Melody Rod-ari
PART 7
Constructed Spaces and Perspectives
7. Introduction: Constructed Spaces and Perspectives
Barbara E. Mundy
7.1 Towers, Travel, and Architectural Habits
Tom Nickson
7.2 The Church of Our Lady of the Rosary of Black People in Salvador (Brazil), and the Enslaved Painter António Telles at Olinda
Giuseppina Raggi
7.3A Mobile Shrine: The Global Cult of the Santa Casa
Erin Giffin and Antongiulio Sorgini
7.4 The Great Mosque of Kilwa: An Architectural Lodestone
Janet Marion Purdy
7.5 Beijing and Beyond: Imperial Landscapes and Early Modern Cosmopolitan Rulership in Qing-Era Eurasia
Stephen H. Whiteman
Biography
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.
