The mercantile effect : art and exchange in the Islamicate world during the 17th and 18th centuries /
"The ten essays in this volume introduce a fascinating array of subjects, each one exploring an aspect of the far-reaching 'mercantile effect' and it's impact across western Asia in the early modern era. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the increased movement of mercha...
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| Language: | English |
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London :
Gingko Library,
2017.
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| Series: | Gingko Library art series.
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword / by Melanie Gibson
- Introduction. The Mercantile Effect: On Art and Exchange in the Islamicate World / by Sussan Babaie
- Fantasies of the East: 'Shopping' in Early Modern Eurasia / Suet May Lam
- The Armenian Artist Minas and Seventeenth-Century Notions of 'Life-Likeness' / Amy S. Landau
- 'Painted by the Turcks themselves': Reading Peter Mundy's Ottoman Costume Album in Context / William Kynan-Wilson
- Golden Watches and Precious Textiles: Luxury Goods at the Crimean Khans' Court and the Northern Black Sea Shore / Nicole Kançal-Ferrari
- Aromatics, Stimulants, and their Vessels: The Material Culture and Rites of Merchant Interaction in Eighteenth-Century Mocha / Nancy Um
- Trading Islamic Artworks in Seventeenth-Century Italy: the Case of the Cospi Museum / Federica Gigante
- From Genoa to Constantinople: The Silk Industry of Chios / Anna Ballian
- Ottoman Textiles Within an Ecclesiastical Context: Cultural Osmoses in Mainland Greece / Christos Merantzas
- Behind the Practice of Partnership: Seventeenth-Century Portuguese Devotional Ivories of West India / Francesco Gusella
- Visual and Embodied Memory of an Ottoman Architect: Travelling on Campaign, Pilgrimage and Trade Routes in the Middle East / Gül Kale.
