Art, Mobility, and Exchange in Early Modern Tuscany and Eurasia (Routledge Research in Art History)

This book is a groundbreaking exploration of how the Medici Grand Dukes expanded their political, commercial, and cultural networks beyond Europe, forming complex relations with Islamicate regions and looking further east to India, China, and Japan.

Through a fascinating array of objects, including diplomatic gifts, commercial exchange items, looted war spoils, maritime connections, and political plots, the book reveals the mobility of people, knowledge, and objects that shaped global interactions.

With stunning new insights into how Western cultures projected themselves eastwards, this volume is a must-read for anyone interested in the history of international relations, cultural exchange, or the Medici family's remarkable legacy.