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Carvahlo, Pedro Moura - Luxury for Export: Artistic Exchange between India and Portugal Around 1600

Title: Luxury for Export: Artistic Exchange between India and Portugal Around 1600
Description: Boston, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 2008. Hardbound. Illus. cover with burnt sienna cloth spine and back cover and black lettering; iz; 77 pp. with catalogue items in color. Issued in conjunctin with a 2008 exhibition of items "made for export to Europe, were not mere craft but rather sophisticated works of art. Prized equally for their exoticism and for their aestethic qualities, such works continue to delight and amaze, even as they adumbrate the emergence of global cultural exchange." (foreword) The illustrated and annotated catalog presents 15 specific items. Includes an extensive bibliography. VG (Some copies may have bookplate and pocket and few marks as ex-art library, otherwise clean.) .

Keywords: Asian Art ; Indian Art ; ; Museum Exhibitions - Asian Art

Price: US$ 29.97 Seller: Kevin Mullen, Bookseller
- Book number: 107548

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