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The global city : on the streets of Renaissance Lisbon / edited by Annemarie Jordan Gschwend, K.J.P. Lowe.

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The global city : on the streets of Renaissance Lisbon / edited by Annemarie Jordan Gschwend, K.J.P. Lowe.

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London : Paul Holberton Publishing [2015]
©2015

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295 pages : color illustrations, maps; 29 cm

Summary

The volume highlights the unique status of Lisbon as an entrepôt for curiosities, luxury goods and wild animals. As the Portuguese trading empire of the fifteenth and sixteenth century expanded sea-routes and networks from West Africa to India and the Far East, non-European cargoes were brought back to Renaissance Lisbon. Many rarities were earmarked for the Portuguese court, but simultaneously exclusive items were readily available for sale on the Rua Nova, the Lisbon equivalent of Bond Street or Fifth Avenue. Specialized shops offered West African and Ceylonese ivories, raffia and Asian textiles, rock crystals, Ming porcelain, Chinese and Ryukyuan lacquerware, jewellery, precious stones, naturalia and exotic animal byproducts. Lisbon was also a hub of distribution for overseas goods to other courts and cities in Europe. The cross-cultural and artistic influences between Lisbon and Portuguese Africa and Asia at this date will be re-assessed --

Alternative Title

On the streets of Renaissance Lisbon

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History.

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Includes bibliographical references.

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Contents

1. Princess of the seas, queen of empire: configuring the city and port of renaissance Lisbon / Annemarie Jordan Gschwend and Kate Lowe -- 2. Foreign descriptions of the global city: renaissance Lisbon from the outside / Kate Lowe -- 3. The global population of renaissance Lisbon: diversity and its entanglements / Kate Lowe -- 4. Chinese commodities on the India route in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries / Rui Manuel Loureiro -- 5. Saved from the sea: the shipwreck of the Bom Jesus (1533) and its material culture / Bruno Werz -- 6. "Aquela grã Rua Nova": images of the Rua Nova in sixteenth-century Portuguese literature / T.F. Earle -- 7. Reconstructing the Rua Nova: the life of a global street in renaissance Lisbon / Annemarie Jordan Gschwend -- 8. Global interiors on the Rua Nova in renaissance Lisbon / Hugo Miguel Crespo -- 9. Olisipo, emporium nobilissimum: global consumption in renaissance Lisbon / Annemarie Jordan Gschwend -- 10. Made in Africa: West African luxury goods for Lisbon's markets / Kate Lowe -- 11. On the turkey in Rua Nova dos Mercadores / Shepard Krech III -- 12. Rock crystal carving in Portuguese Asia: an archaeometric analysis / Hugo Miguel Crespo -- 13. The 'Three Brothers': sixteenth-century lacquered Indo-Muslim shields of commodities for display? / Ulrike Körber -- 14. Some notes on the production of Christian sculpted ivories in the Estado da Índia -- 15. The Rue Nova paintings, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and the Victorian art dealer George Love: questions of provenance / Annemarie Jordan Gschwend.

ISBN

9781907372889
1907372881

LCCN

^^2015463751

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Harvard Library