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The World in Dress

The World in Dress

The World in Dress

Costume Books across Italy, Europe, and the East
Giulia Calvi, Università degli Studi, Siena and European University Institute, Florence
September 2022
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    In the early modern period costume books and albums participated in the shaping of a new visual culture that displayed the diversity of the people of the known world on a variety of media including maps, atlases, screens, and scrolls. At the crossroads of early anthropology, geography, and travel literature, this textual and visual production blurred the lines between art and science. Costume books and albums were not a unique European production: in the Ottoman Empire and the Far East artists and geographers also pictured the dress of men and women of their own and faraway lands hybridizing the Renaissance western tradition. Acknowledging this circulation of knowledge and people through migration, travel, missionary and diplomatic encounters, this Element contributes to the expanding field of early modern cultural studies in a global perspective.

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    September 2022
    Adobe eBook Reader
    9781108912457
    0 pages
    This ISBN is for an eBook version which is distributed on our behalf by a third party.

    Table of Contents

    • 1. Staging the Clothing of the Early Modern World
    • 2. The Ottoman Empire
    • 3. Italy, Europe, and Japan
    • Bibliography.
      Author
    • Giulia Calvi , Università degli Studi, Siena and European University Institute, Florence