The Nomadic Object : The Challenge of World for Early Modern Religious Art.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on the Editors -- Notes on the Contributors -- List of Illustrations -- Connected Worlds-The World, the Worldly, and the Otherworldly: An Introduction -- Part 1 The World's 'Idols' -- Chapter 1 Extraordinary Things: 'Idols from India' and the Visual Discernment of Space and Time, circa 1600 -- Chapter 2 Arabic Inscriptions in the Service of the Church: An Italian Textile Evoking an Early Christian Past? -- Chapter 3 Materiality and Idolatry: Roman Imaginations of Saint Rose of Lima -- Part 2 Parables of Contact -- Chapter 4 Ut Pictura Lex: Jan David, S.J., on Natural Law and the Global Reach of Christian Images -- Chapter 5 Translating the Sacred: The Peripatetic Print in the Florentine Codex, Mexico (1575-1577) -- Chapter 6 The Value of Misinterpretation in Cultural Exchange: The Transfer of Christian Prints from the West to Japan -- Chapter 7 Propagatio Imaginum: The Translated Images of Our Lady of Foy -- Part 3 Material Alchemies -- Chapter 8 'Mass' Produced Devotional Paintings in the Andes: Mobility, Flexibility, Visual Habitus -- Chapter 9 Gems of Sacred Kingship: Faceting Anglo-Mughal Relations around 1600 -- Chapter 10 Cultured Materiality in Early Modern Art: Feather Mosaics in Sixteenth-Century Collections -- Chapter 11 Making Marvels-Faking Matter: Mediating Virtus between the Bezoar and Goa Stones and Their Containers -- Part 4 Relic Values -- Chapter 12 Naked Bones, Empty Caskets, and a Faceless Bust: Christian Relics and Reliquaries between Europe and Asia during Early Modern Globalisation -- Chapter 13 Virgin Skulls: The Travels of St. Ursula's Companions in the New World -- Chapter 14 Relic or Icon? The Place and Function of Imperial Regalia -- Chapter 15 Relics Management: Building a Spiritual Empire in Asia (Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries) -- Part 5 'Netted' Works.

Chapter 16 The Seven Sorrows of the Virgin: Spreading a New Cult via Dynastic Networks -- Chapter 17 Early Modern Incense Boats: Commerce, Christianity, and Cultural Exchange -- Chapter 18 Journeys, Real and Imaginary, in China and Europe: Cartography, Landscape, and Travel around 1600 -- Chapter 19 Arrivals at Distant Lands: Artful Letters and Entangled Mobilities in the Indian Ocean Littoral -- Index Nominum.

A team of renowned scholars examines how sacred art and artefacts responded to the demands of a world stage in the age of reform, demonstrating the significance of religious systems for a global art history.

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