Global Gold

Thomas B. F. Cummins is the Dumbarton Oaks Professor of Pre-Columbian and Colonial Art at Harvard University and Director of Dumbarton Oaks. Abigail Krasner Balbale is Assistant Professor, Cultural History of the Islamic World, Bard Graduate Center. Suzanne Preston Blier is Allen Whitehill Clowes Professor of Fine Arts and Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. Anne Dunlop is Professor of Art History and Herald Chair of Fine Arts at the University of Melbourne. Her prizewinning publications include Painted Palaces: The Rise of Secular Art in Early Renaissance Italy; The Matter of Art: Materials, Practices, Cultural Logics, c. 1250–1750; and Antipodean Early Modern: European Art in Australian Collections, c. 1200–1600.

This richly illustrated collection of essays makes a significant contribution to the ‘material turn’ in cultural history and speaks to scholars and students across various disciplines.