Transcultural Things And The Spectre Of Orientalism In Early Modern Poland-lithuania Av Tomasz Grusiecki

The original research in this book analyzes the artistic activity of Santi Gucci (1533-c. 1600), a Florentine sculptor active in Poland in the second half of the sixteenth century, and his workshop.

This book supplies fresh and provocative insights into how objects - ordinary and extraordinary, secular and sacred, natural and man-made - came to define some of the key developments of the early modern world. It is essential reading for all those interested...

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