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Art, Mobility, and Exchange in Early Modern Tuscany and Eurasia

Art, Mobility, and Exchange in Early Modern Tuscany and Eurasia

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Series: Routledge Research in Art History

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ISBN10: 0367509717
ISBN13: 9780367509712
Publisher: Routledge
Published: May 31 2023
Pages: 222
Language: English

This book explores how the Medici Grand Dukes pursued ways to expand their political, commercial, and cultural networks beyond Europe, cultivating complex relations with the Ottoman Empire and other Islamicate regions, and looking further east to India, China, and Japan.

The chapters in this volume discuss how casting a global, cross-cultural net was part and parcel of the Medicean political vision. Diplomatic gifts, items of commercial exchange, objects looted at war, maritime connections, and political plots were an inherent part of how the Medici projected their state on the global arena. The eleven chapters of this volume demonstrate that the mobility of objects, people, and knowledge that generated the global interactions analyzed here was not unidirectional--rather, it went both to and from Tuscany. In addition, by exploring evidence of objects produced in Tuscany for Asian markets, this book reveals hitherto neglected histories of how Western cultures projected themselves eastwards.

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