Global Gold - Aesthetics, Material Desires, Economies in Late Medieval Early

The interdisciplinary essays in Global Gold-by scholars of European, American, African, and Asian history and art history-explore gold's monetary, economic, and aesthetic roles within the crucible of a unique historical period of transition, conquest, and the exploitation of natural and human resources.

Info autore

Thomas B. F. Cummins is the Dumbarton Oaks Professor of Pre-Columbian and Colonial Art at Harvard University and Director of Dumbarton Oaks.Abigail Krasner Balbale is Assistant Professor, Cultural History of the Islamic World, Bard Graduate Center.Suzanne Preston Blier is Allen Whitehill Clowes Professor of Fine Arts and Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University.Anne Dunlop is Professor of Art History and Herald Chair of Fine Arts at the University of Melbourne. Her prizewinning publications include Painted Palaces: The Rise of Secular Art in Early Renaissance Italy; The Matter of Art: Materials, Practices, Cultural Logics, c. 1250–1750; and Antipodean Early Modern: European Art in Australian Collections, c. 1200–1600.

Riassunto

The interdisciplinary essays in Global Gold—by scholars of European, American, African, and Asian history and art history—explore gold’s monetary, economic, and aesthetic roles within the crucible of a unique historical period of transition, conquest, and the exploitation of natural and human resources.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Thomas B. F. Cummins
• Con la collaborazione di: Thomas B. F. Cummins (Editore)
• Editore: Harvard University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 16.04.2024
• EAN: 9780674296176
• ISBN: 978-0-674-29617-6
• Pagine: 200
• Serie: I Tatti Research Series
• Categorie: Saggistica > Storia > Altro; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Arte > Storia dell'arte; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Money & Monetary Policy, ART / History / General, HISTORY / World, History of art / art & design styles, General & world history, History of Art, General and world history, Monetary Economics