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The Nomadic Object
The Challenge of World for Early Modern Religious Art
Series: - Intersections, Volume: 53
At the turn of the sixteenth century, the notion of world was dramatically being reshaped, leaving no aspect of human experience untouched. The Nomadic Object: The Challenge of World for Early Modern Religious Art examines how sacred art and artefacts responded to the demands of a world stage in the age of reform. Essays by leading scholars explore how religious objects resulting from cross-cultural contact defied national and confessional categories and were re-contextualised in a global framework via their collection, exchange, production, management, and circulation. In dialogue with current discourses, papers address issues of idolatry, translation, materiality, value, and the agency of networks. The Nomadic Object demonstrates the significance of religious systems, from overseas logistics to philosophical underpinnings, for a global art history.
Contributors are: Akira Akiyama, James Clifton, Jeffrey L. Collins, Ralph Dekoninck, Dagmar Eichberger, Beate Fricke, Christine Göttler, Christiane Hille, Margit Kern, Dipti Khera, Yoriko Kobayashi-Sato, Urte Krass, Evonne Levy, Meredith Martin, Walter S. Melion, Mia M. Mochizuki, Jeanette Favrot Peterson, Rose Marie San Juan, Denise-Marie Teece, Tristan Weddigen, and Ines G. Županov.
Contributors are: Akira Akiyama, James Clifton, Jeffrey L. Collins, Ralph Dekoninck, Dagmar Eichberger, Beate Fricke, Christine Göttler, Christiane Hille, Margit Kern, Dipti Khera, Yoriko Kobayashi-Sato, Urte Krass, Evonne Levy, Meredith Martin, Walter S. Melion, Mia M. Mochizuki, Jeanette Favrot Peterson, Rose Marie San Juan, Denise-Marie Teece, Tristan Weddigen, and Ines G. Županov.
Christine Göttler is Professor of Art History at the University of Bern. She has published extensively on diverse topics ranging from Reformation iconoclasm, post-Tridentine spirituality, and the relationship between art, nature, and the senses to aspects of early modern artistsâ materials.
Mia M. Mochizuki is Associate Professor of Renaissance and Baroque Art History at NYU Abu Dhabi and the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. Her publications have focused on iconoclasm in 17th-century Dutch art and globalisation in early Jesuit art.
Mia M. Mochizuki is Associate Professor of Renaissance and Baroque Art History at NYU Abu Dhabi and the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. Her publications have focused on iconoclasm in 17th-century Dutch art and globalisation in early Jesuit art.
âSome of these essays will become immediately indispensable for further research. There is so much knowledge and expertise invested in each essay that it would be impossible to find a common denominator to unite them all.â
Jeffrey Muller, Brown University. In: Journal of Jesuit Studies, Vol. 5, No. 4 (November 2018), pp. 661-666.
Jeffrey Muller, Brown University. In: Journal of Jesuit Studies, Vol. 5, No. 4 (November 2018), pp. 661-666.
Acknowledgments
Notes on the Editors
Notes on the Contributors
List of Illustrations
Introduction: Connected WorldsâThe World the Worldly and the Otherworldly: An Introduction
âMia M. Mochizuki
1 Extraordinary Things: âIdols from Indiaâ and the Visual Discernment of Space and Time, circa 1600â
âChristine Göttler
2 Arabic Inscriptions in the Service of the Church: An Italian Textile Evoking an Early Christian Past?
âDenise-Marie Teece
3 Materiality and Idolatry: Roman Imaginations of Saint Rose of Lima
âTristan Weddigen
4 Ut Pictura Lex: Jan David, S.J., on Natural Law and the Global Reach of Christian Images
âWalter S. Melion
5 Translating the Sacred: The Peripatetic Print in the Florentine Codex, Mexico (1575â1577)
âJeanette Favrot Peterson
6 The Value of Misinterpretation in Cultural Exchange: The Transfer of Christian Prints from the West to Japan
âYoriko Kobayashi-Sato
7 Propagatio Imaginum: The Translated Images of Our Lady of Foy
âRalph Dekoninck
8 âMassâ Produced Devotional Paintings in the Andes: Mobility, Flexibility, Visual Habitus
âEvonne Levy
9 Gems of Sacred Kingship: Faceting Anglo-Mughal Relations around 1600
âChristiane Hille
10 Cultured Materiality in Early Modern Art: Feather Mosaics in Sixteenth-Century Collections
âMargit Kern
11 Making MarvelsâFaking Matter: Mediating Virtus between the Bezoar and Goa Stones and Their Containers
âBeate Fricke
12 Naked Bones, Empty Caskets, and a Faceless Bust: Christian Relics and Reliquaries between Europe and Asia during Early Modern Globalisation
âUrte Krass
13 Virgin Skulls: The Travels of St. Ursulaâs Companions in the New World
âRose Marie San Juan
14 Relic or Icon? The Place and Function of Imperial Regalia
âAkira Akiyama
15 Relics Management: Building a Spiritual Empire in Asia (Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries)
âInes G. Županov
16 The Seven Sorrows of the Virgin: Spreading a New Cult via Dynastic Networks
âDagmar Eichberger
17 Early Modern Incense Boats: Commerce, Christianity, and Cultural Exchange
âJeffrey L. Collins and Meredith Martin
18 Journeys, Real and Imaginary, in China and Europe: Cartography, Landscape, and Travel around 1600
âJames Clifton
19 Arrivals at Distant Lands: Artful Letters and Entangled Mobilities in the Indian Ocean Littoral
âDipti Khera
Index Nominum
Notes on the Editors
Notes on the Contributors
List of Illustrations
Introduction: Connected WorldsâThe World the Worldly and the Otherworldly: An Introduction
âMia M. Mochizuki
Part 1: The Worldâs âIdolsâ
1 Extraordinary Things: âIdols from Indiaâ and the Visual Discernment of Space and Time, circa 1600â
âChristine Göttler
2 Arabic Inscriptions in the Service of the Church: An Italian Textile Evoking an Early Christian Past?
âDenise-Marie Teece
3 Materiality and Idolatry: Roman Imaginations of Saint Rose of Lima
âTristan Weddigen
Part 2: Parables of Contact
4 Ut Pictura Lex: Jan David, S.J., on Natural Law and the Global Reach of Christian Images
âWalter S. Melion
5 Translating the Sacred: The Peripatetic Print in the Florentine Codex, Mexico (1575â1577)
âJeanette Favrot Peterson
6 The Value of Misinterpretation in Cultural Exchange: The Transfer of Christian Prints from the West to Japan
âYoriko Kobayashi-Sato
7 Propagatio Imaginum: The Translated Images of Our Lady of Foy
âRalph Dekoninck
Part 3: Material Alchemies
8 âMassâ Produced Devotional Paintings in the Andes: Mobility, Flexibility, Visual Habitus
âEvonne Levy
9 Gems of Sacred Kingship: Faceting Anglo-Mughal Relations around 1600
âChristiane Hille
10 Cultured Materiality in Early Modern Art: Feather Mosaics in Sixteenth-Century Collections
âMargit Kern
11 Making MarvelsâFaking Matter: Mediating Virtus between the Bezoar and Goa Stones and Their Containers
âBeate Fricke
Part 4: Relic Values
12 Naked Bones, Empty Caskets, and a Faceless Bust: Christian Relics and Reliquaries between Europe and Asia during Early Modern Globalisation
âUrte Krass
13 Virgin Skulls: The Travels of St. Ursulaâs Companions in the New World
âRose Marie San Juan
14 Relic or Icon? The Place and Function of Imperial Regalia
âAkira Akiyama
15 Relics Management: Building a Spiritual Empire in Asia (Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries)
âInes G. Županov
Part 5: âNettedâ Works
16 The Seven Sorrows of the Virgin: Spreading a New Cult via Dynastic Networks
âDagmar Eichberger
17 Early Modern Incense Boats: Commerce, Christianity, and Cultural Exchange
âJeffrey L. Collins and Meredith Martin
18 Journeys, Real and Imaginary, in China and Europe: Cartography, Landscape, and Travel around 1600
âJames Clifton
19 Arrivals at Distant Lands: Artful Letters and Entangled Mobilities in the Indian Ocean Littoral
âDipti Khera
Index Nominum
All interested in early modern, global, and religious art history, and anyone concerned with contact objects, the Kunstkammer, and Reformation (Catholic and Protestant) studies.