Global Interests: Renaissance Art Between East and West - Hardcover

Brotton, Jeremy; Jardine, Lisa

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1861890796 ISBN 13: 9781861890795

Publisher: Reaktion Books, 2000

Synopsis

In this wide-ranging reassessment of Renaissance art, Jerry Brotton and Lisa Jardine examine the ways in which European culture came to define itself culturally and aesthetically in the years 1450 to 1550. Looking outwards for confirmation of who they were and of what defined them as "civilized", Europeans encountered the returning gaze of what we now call the east, in particular the powerful Ottoman Empire of Mehmed the Conqueror and Suleyman the Magnificent. This book offers accounts of three often neglected art objects: portrait medals, tapestries, and equestrian art, and the authors provide new responses to some of the most iconic paintings of the period, including the work of Pisanello, Leonardo, Durer, Holbein and Titian. It also offers a timely reassessment of the development of European imperialism, focusing on the Habsburg Empire of Charles V, and concludes with a consideration of the impact this history continues to have upon contemporary perceptions of European culture and ethnic identity.

About this title

Review:

"Fresh, entertaining and finely presented" - The Economist

About the Author:

Lisa Jardine is Director of the AHRB Research Centre for Editing Lives and Letters, Professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen Mary, University of London, and author of many books. Jerry Brotton is Lecturer in Renaissance Studies at Queen Mary, University of London, and is the author of Trading Territories: Mapping the Early Modern World (Reaktion, 1997).

About this edition

• Publisher: Reaktion Books
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 1861890796
• ISBN 13: 9781861890795
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 236