In this groundbreaking, highly provocative examination of the
Renaissance, Jerry Brotton and Lisa Jardine raise questions about
the formation of cultural identity in Western Europe. Through an
analysis of the circulation of art and luxury objects, the authors
challenge the view that Renaissance culture defined itself in large
part against an exotic, dangerous, always marginal East. Featuring
more than seventy illustrations, including many in color and some
published for the first time, their book provides fascinating
insights into the works of Pisanello, Leonardo, Durer, Holbein, and
Titian.
Global Interests explores the trade in portrait medals,
tapestries, and equestrian art, all items that Brotton and Jardine
demonstrate were markers of power and influence in both the West
and the East. The authors reveal that this trade represented a
remarkably equal exchange between Renaissance Europe and the
Ottoman East. Their findings lead them to argue that the East, and
in particular the Ottoman Empire of Mehmet the Conqueror and
Suleiman the Magnificent, was not the antithetical "other" to the
emergence of a Western European identity in the sixteenth century.
Instead, Paris, Venice, and London were linked with Istanbul and
the East through networks of shared political and commercial
interests. By showing that the traditional view of Renaissance
culture is misleading, the authors offer a more truly global
understanding of historical experience.
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