1st Edition

The Routledge Companion to Global Renaissance Art

Edited By Stephen J. Campbell, Stephanie Porras Copyright 2024
732 Pages 38 Color & 136 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

732 Pages 38 Color & 136 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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... Read more

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.