Owning the exotic: Production of Hispano-Islamic lusterware and its reception in Western Europe, 1350-1650
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Title
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Owning the exotic: Production of Hispano-Islamic lusterware and its reception in Western Europe, 1350-1650
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Identifier
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d_2009_2013:243cadf6dd60:11908
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identifier
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12535
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Creator
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Ortuno, Andrea,
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Contributor
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Jennifer L. Ball
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Date
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2013
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Art history | European history | Middle Eastern history | Ceramics | Hispano-Islamic | Lusterware | Reception | Western Europe
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Abstract
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Lusterware, tin-glazed pottery decorated with striking iridescent designs, was first made in Basra, Iraq, in the ninth century. These luxury ceramics and the specialized technique involved in their creation spread rapidly throughout the Islamic world, with the Iberian Peninsula ultimately becoming a center for production. This dissertation examines the social, historical, and artistic circumstances surrounding Hispano-Islamic lusterware production and provides insight into its reception in Western Europe during the height of its consumption from 1350 to 1650.;Given that available scholarship on Hispano-Islamic lusterware is primarily concerned with archaeological excavation, trade practices, and formal analysis, our understanding of what this pottery meant to the artists who created it and to the patrons whose tastes it satisfied has remained unclear. My dissertation clarifies these aspects by viewing both the creation and patronage of this lusterware as driven by its conception as an exotic luxury item in the Iberian Peninsula as well as in Northern Europe and Italy.;Moreover, while waning lusterware consumption in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Europe, and Spain in particular, has been viewed as evidence of a change of taste imposed by the growth of an Italian Renaissance aesthetic, I demonstrate that new types of attainable exotica, such as Chinese porcelain and New World ceramics, also diminished lusterware's popularity.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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2009_2013.csv
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degree
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Ph.D.
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Program
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Art History
