The mercantile effect : art and exchange in the Islamicate world during the 17th and 18th centuries / edited by Sussan Babaie and Melanie Gibson

The research behind the essays in this book were originally presented at the third Ginko conference held at the Barenboim-Said Akademie, Berlin in November 2016

Includes bibliographical references

Foreword / by Melanie Gibson -- Introduction. The Mercantile Effect: On Art and Exchange in the Islamicate World / by Sussan Babaie -- Fantasies of the East: 'Shopping' in Early Modern Eurasia / Suet May Lam -- The Armenian Artist Minas and Seventeenth-Century Notions of 'Life-Likeness' / Amy S. Landau -- 'Painted by the Turcks themselves': Reading Peter Mundy's Ottoman Costume Album in Context / William Kynan-Wilson -- Golden Watches and Precious Textiles: Luxury Goods at the Crimean Khans' Court and the Northern Black Sea Shore / Nicole Kançal-Ferrari -- Aromatics, Stimulants, and their Vessels: The Material Culture and Rites of Merchant Interaction in Eighteenth-Century Mocha / Nancy Um -- Trading Islamic Artworks in Seventeenth-Century Italy: the Case of the Cospi Museum / Federica Gigante -- From Genoa to Constantinople: The Silk Industry of Chios / Anna Ballian -- Ottoman Textiles Within an Ecclesiastical Context: Cultural Osmoses in Mainland Greece / Christos Merantzas -- Behind the Practice of Partnership: Seventeenth-Century Portuguese Devotional Ivories of West India / Francesco Gusella -- Visual and Embodied Memory of an Ottoman Architect: Travelling on Campaign, Pilgrimage and Trade Routes in the Middle East / Gül Kale

"The ten essays in this volume introduce a fascinating array of subjects, each one exploring an aspect of the far-reaching 'mercantile effect' and it's impact across western Asia in the early modern era. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the increased movement of merchants and merchandise from China to Europe brought desirable exotic commodities to new markets but also spread ideas, tastes and technologies across western Asia as never before."--Jacket