The Mercantile Effect: Art and Exchange in the Islamicate World During the 17th and 18th Centuries
edited by Sussan Babaie and Melanie Gibson by William Kynan-Wilson, Suet May Lam, Amy Landau, Christos Merantzas, Nancy Um, Sussan Babaie, Melanie Gibson, Anna Ballian, Federica Gigante, Francesco Gusella, Gül Kale and Nicole Kançal-Ferrari
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC
ABOUT THIS BOOK
This lavishly illustrated volume of essays introduces a fascinating array of subjects, each exploring an aspect of the far-reaching “mercantile effect” and its impact across western Asia in the early modern era. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the increased movement of merchants and goods from China to Europe brought desirable commodities to new markets, but also spread ideas, tastes, and technologies across western Asia as never before. Through the newly-established Dutch, English, and French East India companies, as well as much older mercantile networks, commodities including silk, ivory, books, and glazed porcelains were transported both east and west. The Mercantile Effect shows a fascinating array of trade objects and the customs and traditions of traders that brought about a period of intense cultural interchange.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Melanie Gibson is the senior editor of the Gingko Library Arts Series. Sussan Babaie is the Andrew W. Mellon Reader in the Arts of Iran and Islam at the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London.
REVIEWS
“This elegant volume edited by Sussan Babaie and Melanie Gibson is a pioneer effort. . . superbly illustrated and kaleidoscopically examined.”
— Newsletter of the Oriental Ceramic Society
"From decoratively designed porcelain and pocket watches, to the adoption of 'themes and motifs from Ottoman art' in eastern Orthodox ecclesiastical textiles, this informative collection of essays explores how the 'irresistible quest for new markets' established 'connectivity' between the two cultures that 'transcend[ed] barriers.'"
— AramcoWorld
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Foreword by Melanie Gibson
Introduction by Sussan Babaie The Mercantile Effect: On Art and Exchange in the Islamicate World
Suet May Lam Fantasies of the East: ‘Shopping’ in Early Modern Eurasia
Amy S. Landau The Armenian Artist Minas and Seventeenth-Century Notions of ‘Life-Likeness’
William Kynan-Wilson ‘Painted by the Turcks themselves’: Reading Peter Mundy’s Ottoman costume Album in Context
Nicole Kançal-Ferrari Golden Watches and Precious Textiles: Luxury Goods at the Crimean Khans’ Court and the Northern Black Sea Shore
Nancy Um Aromatics, Stimulants, and their Vessels: The Material Culture and Rites of Merchant Interaction in Eighteenth-Century Mocha
Federica Gigante Trading Islamic Artworks in Seventeenth-Century Italy: the Case of the Cospi Museum
Anna Ballian From Genoa to Constantinople: The Silk Industry of Chios
Christos Merantzas Ottoman Textiles Within an Ecclesiastical Context: Cultural Osmoses in Mainland Greece
Francesco Gusella Behind the Practice of Partnership: Seventeenth-Century Portuguese Devotional Ivories of West India
Gül Kale Visual Embodied Memory of an ottoman Architect: Travelling on Campaign, Pilgrimage and Trade Routes in the Middle East
The Mercantile Effect: Art and Exchange in the Islamicate World During the 17th and 18th Centuries
edited by Sussan Babaie and Melanie Gibson by William Kynan-Wilson, Suet May Lam, Amy Landau, Christos Merantzas, Nancy Um, Sussan Babaie, Melanie Gibson, Anna Ballian, Federica Gigante, Francesco Gusella, Gül Kale and Nicole Kançal-Ferrari
This lavishly illustrated volume of essays introduces a fascinating array of subjects, each exploring an aspect of the far-reaching “mercantile effect” and its impact across western Asia in the early modern era. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the increased movement of merchants and goods from China to Europe brought desirable commodities to new markets, but also spread ideas, tastes, and technologies across western Asia as never before. Through the newly-established Dutch, English, and French East India companies, as well as much older mercantile networks, commodities including silk, ivory, books, and glazed porcelains were transported both east and west. The Mercantile Effect shows a fascinating array of trade objects and the customs and traditions of traders that brought about a period of intense cultural interchange.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Melanie Gibson is the senior editor of the Gingko Library Arts Series. Sussan Babaie is the Andrew W. Mellon Reader in the Arts of Iran and Islam at the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London.
REVIEWS
“This elegant volume edited by Sussan Babaie and Melanie Gibson is a pioneer effort. . . superbly illustrated and kaleidoscopically examined.”
— Newsletter of the Oriental Ceramic Society
"From decoratively designed porcelain and pocket watches, to the adoption of 'themes and motifs from Ottoman art' in eastern Orthodox ecclesiastical textiles, this informative collection of essays explores how the 'irresistible quest for new markets' established 'connectivity' between the two cultures that 'transcend[ed] barriers.'"
— AramcoWorld
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Foreword by Melanie Gibson
Introduction by Sussan Babaie The Mercantile Effect: On Art and Exchange in the Islamicate World
Suet May Lam Fantasies of the East: ‘Shopping’ in Early Modern Eurasia
Amy S. Landau The Armenian Artist Minas and Seventeenth-Century Notions of ‘Life-Likeness’
William Kynan-Wilson ‘Painted by the Turcks themselves’: Reading Peter Mundy’s Ottoman costume Album in Context
Nicole Kançal-Ferrari Golden Watches and Precious Textiles: Luxury Goods at the Crimean Khans’ Court and the Northern Black Sea Shore
Nancy Um Aromatics, Stimulants, and their Vessels: The Material Culture and Rites of Merchant Interaction in Eighteenth-Century Mocha
Federica Gigante Trading Islamic Artworks in Seventeenth-Century Italy: the Case of the Cospi Museum
Anna Ballian From Genoa to Constantinople: The Silk Industry of Chios
Christos Merantzas Ottoman Textiles Within an Ecclesiastical Context: Cultural Osmoses in Mainland Greece
Francesco Gusella Behind the Practice of Partnership: Seventeenth-Century Portuguese Devotional Ivories of West India
Gül Kale Visual Embodied Memory of an ottoman Architect: Travelling on Campaign, Pilgrimage and Trade Routes in the Middle East
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ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC