Research Catalog

Title

The first viral images : Maerten de Vos, Antwerp print, and the early modern globe / Stephanie Porras.

Author

Porras, Stephanie

Publication

• University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2023]
• ©2023

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Details

Additional Authors

Vos, Maarten de, 1532-1603.

Description

xiii, 185 pages : illustrations (some color); 26 cm

Summary

"As a social phenomenon and a commonplace of internet culture, virality provides a critical vocabulary for addressing questions raised by the global mobility and reproduction of early modern artworks. This book uses the concept of virality to study artworks' role in the uneven processes of early modern globalization.Drawing from archival research in Asia, Europe, and the Americas, Stephanie Porras traces the trajectories of two interrelated sets of objects made in Antwerp in the late sixteenth century: Gerónimo Nadal's Evangelicae historiae imagines, an illustrated devotional text published and promoted by the Society of Jesus, and a singular composition by Maerten de Vos, St. Michael the Archangel. Both were reproduced and adapted across the early modern world in the seventeenth century. Porras examines how and why these objects traveled and were adopted as models by Spanish and Latin American painters, Chinese printmakers, Mughal miniaturists, and Filipino ivory carvers. Reassessing the creative labor underpinning the production of a diverse array of copies, citations, and reproductions, Porras uses virality to elucidate the interstices of the agency of individual artists or patrons, powerful gatekeepers and social networks, and economic, political, and religious infrastructures. In doing so, Porras tests and contests several analytical models that have dominated art-historical scholarship of the global early modern period, putting pressure on notions of copying and agency, context and viewership."--

Alternative Title

Maerten de Vos, Antwerp print, and the early modern globe

Subject

• Vos, Maarten de, 1532-1603
• 1500-1599
• Art and globalization > History > 16th century
• Art > Reproduction > History > 16th century
• Art > Copying > History > 16th century
• Art and globalization
• Art > Reproduction
• Art
• Copying

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Viral images -- Fixing the line -- Conquering and forgetting -- Local mediators in Latin America -- Silver and souls in Manila -- Conclusion : imaginings.

Call Number

JQF 24-190

ISBN

• 9780271092836
• 0271092831

LCCN

2022026216

OCLC

1336708547

Author

Porras, Stephanie, author. Author

Title

The first viral images : Maerten de Vos, Antwerp print, and the early modern globe / Stephanie Porras.

Publisher

University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2023]

Copyright Date

©2023

Type of Content

still image

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

1500-1599

Added Author

Vos, Maarten de, 1532-1603.

Research Call Number

JQF 24-190