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Periscope Publishing [Published Date: 2008]. Hardcover, 77 pp. Text in English. Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, Feb. 8-May 4, 2008. illustrations (chiefly color), map, Bibliography, Suggested Reading.
In good condition. Decorative paper over front cover with orange cloth on spine and back cover. Covers have a bit of scuffing and soiling to to the cloth on both the front and back. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. NOT Ex-Library. NO remainder marks. Soon after the Portuguese opened the first direct sea route from Europe to Asia, they established trading centers in India and Sri Lanka. By the early 1500s, the courts and the cities of Europe had become avid consumers of luxury goods imported from South Asia. This book shows how the trade in exotica spurred the development of an extraordinary hybrid art, at once Indian and Portuguese. Many of the featured objects have never before been properly identified or presented to the public.