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

List of contents

Introduction: Eurasian Tuscany, or the Fifth Element
Francesco Freddolini

Part 1: Mediterranean Connections


1. Making a New Prince: Tuscany, the Pasha of Aleppo, and the Dream of a New Levant

Brian Brege
2. To the Victor Go the Spoils: Christian Triumphalism, Cosimo I de’ Medici and the Order of Santo Stefano in Pisa
Joseph M. Silva
3. Medici Patronage and Exotic Collectibles in the Seventeenth Century: the Cospi Collection
Federica Gigante
Part 2: Livorno: Infrastructures and Networks of Exchange
4. Disembedding the Market: Commerce, Competition, and the Free Port of 1676
Corey Tazzara
5. Red Coral from Livorno to Hirado: British Early Trading Networks and Maritime Trajectories, c. 1570-1623
Tiziana Iannello
6. Ginori Porcelain: Florentine Identity and trade with the Levant
Cinzia Maria Sicca
Part 3: Asian Interactions
7. Of Rhinos, Peppercorns, and Saints: (Re)presenting India in Medici Florence
Erin E. Benay
9. Eurasian Networks of Pietre Dure: Francesco Paolsanti Indiano and His Early Seventeenth-Century Trade between Florence and Goa
Francesco Freddolini
10. The Russian Fata Morgana of Cosimo III: The Fluctuating Portraits of Kangxi between Florence and Beijing
Marco Musillo
11. Postscript. Textual Threads and Starry Messengers: The Global Medici from the Archive to the Fondaco
Marco Musillo

About the author

Francesco Freddolini is Associate Professor of Art History at Luther College, University of Regina, Canada, and Director of the Humanities Research Institute, University of Regina.
Marco Musillo is an independent researcher.

Summary

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.

Additional text

"[T]he essays in the volume are overall very strong, and the volume is a major contribution to this area of inquiry."
--CAA Reviews

Product details

• Authors: Francesco Musillo Freddolini
• Assisted by: Francesco Freddolini (Editor), Marco Musillo (Editor), Musillo Marco (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2020
• EAN: 9780367467289
• ISBN: 978-0-367-46728-9
• No. of pages: 222
• Series: Routledge Research in Art History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Europe, European History, Asia, ART / History / General, ART / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945), BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Commerce, c 1500 onwards to present day, History of Art, History of art & design styles: c 1400 to c 1600, Asian History, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, History of art & design styles: c 1600 to c 1800, ART / History / European / Renaissance