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Double agents : cultural and political brokerage in early modern Europe /
The early modern system of brokerage as a widespread practice of transmission and dissemination of political, intellectual and cultural ideas and objects has, in recent years, received some scholarly attention. Agents from different professional backgrounds diplomats, scholars, artists, priests, boo...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2011.
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| Colección: | Studies in medieval and Reformation traditions ;
v. 154. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : double agents in early modern Europe ; The embassy of art : diplomats as cultural brokers / Marika Keblusek
- Art and patronage : Sir Henry Wotton and the Venetian embassy, 1604-1624 / Robert Hill
- Giovanni Andrea Doria : citizen of Genoa, Prince of Melfi, agent of King Philip II of Spain / Thomas Kirk
- Politics and letters : Gisbert Cuper as a servant of two republics / Bianca Chen
- Mercator sapiens : merchants as cultural entrepreneurs / Marika Keblusek
- Acquiring artistic expertise : the agent Daniel Nijs and his contacts with artists in Venice / Maartje van Gelder
- García de Yllán : a merchant in silver, bread and bullets and a broker in art, 1591-1655 / Maurits A. Ebben
- The pretext of pictures : artists as cultural and political agents / Marika Keblusek
- A spider in its web : agent and artist Michel le Blon and his northern European network / Badeloch Vera Noldus
- John Dowland's employment at the royal Danish court : musician, agent
- and spy? / Peter Hauge
- Travels of a court jester : Gonzalo de Liaño, art agent at the court of King Philip II of Spain / Susanne Kubersky-Piredda and Salvador Salort Pons
- "From Russia with love" : agents and their victims / Martin Dönike.