Year
2024
Publisher
Leuven University Press
Language
English
Pages
21
ISBN
978-9-46166-540-9
Last Update
22-Nov-2024
Keywords
Art & Art History ; Asian Studies ; Museum Studies
Examining collections of Asian art across Europe allows for research on multiple levels and for a series of narratives to unfold. For example, one can retrace how European merchants have imported luxury goods via overland and maritime trade routes since medieval times.¹ Alternatively, it is possible to look at the mechanisms by which Asian portable objects and paintings were moved and traded along colonial routes to Europe, where such items usually arrived both at imperial metropolises and at other capital cities, from whence they were distributed across Europe and even to North America during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.² This...
