Larry Silver is an art historian and writer. He is Farquhar Professor of History of Art, emeritus, at the University of Pennsylvania and has written and contributed to numerous publications including Peasant Scenes and Landscapes: The Rise of Pictorial Genres in the Antwerp Art Market (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006), Marketing Maximilian: The Visual Ideology of a Holy Roman Emperor (Princeton University Press, 2008) and Rembrandt's Holland (Reaktion Books, 2017).

'Written in clear expository prose and argued in the lively style characteristic of Silver’s work, this new book synthesizes much recent scholarship and offers some new ideas on the ways in which Europeans depicted denizens of the rest of the world.' – Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, Historians of Netherlandish Art Reviews

• Preface to an Early Modern Global Art History; Introduction: Monsters and Aliens in Medieval European Imagination; 1. Muslims — From Saracens to Turks; 2. The Americas; 3. Africa; 4. India Ink; 5. East Asia; Conclusions: The New Eighteenth Century; Acknowledgments; Suggested Further Reading and Bibliography

Larry Silver is an art historian and writer. He is Farquhar Professor of History of Art, emeritus, at the University of Pennsylvania and has written and contributed to numerous publications including Peasant Scenes and Landscapes: The Rise of Pictorial Genres in the Antwerp Art Market (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006), Marketing Maximilian: The Visual Ideology of a Holy Roman Emperor (Princeton University Press, 2008) and Rembrandt's Holland (Reaktion Books, 2017).

'Written in clear expository prose and argued in the lively style characteristic of Silver’s work, this new book synthesizes much recent scholarship and offers some new ideas on the ways in which Europeans depicted denizens of the rest of the world.' – Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, Historians of Netherlandish Art Reviews

• Preface to an Early Modern Global Art History; Introduction: Monsters and Aliens in Medieval European Imagination; 1. Muslims — From Saracens to Turks; 2. The Americas; 3. Africa; 4. India Ink; 5. East Asia; Conclusions: The New Eighteenth Century; Acknowledgments; Suggested Further Reading and Bibliography

Larry Silver is an art historian and writer. He is Farquhar Professor of History of Art, emeritus, at the University of Pennsylvania and has written and contributed to numerous publications including Peasant Scenes and Landscapes: The Rise of Pictorial Genres in the Antwerp Art Market (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006), Marketing Maximilian: The Visual Ideology of a Holy Roman Emperor (Princeton University Press, 2008) and Rembrandt's Holland (Reaktion Books, 2017).

'Written in clear expository prose and argued in the lively style characteristic of Silver’s work, this new book synthesizes much recent scholarship and offers some new ideas on the ways in which Europeans depicted denizens of the rest of the world.' – Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, Historians of Netherlandish Art Reviews

• Preface to an Early Modern Global Art History; Introduction: Monsters and Aliens in Medieval European Imagination; 1. Muslims — From Saracens to Turks; 2. The Americas; 3. Africa; 4. India Ink; 5. East Asia; Conclusions: The New Eighteenth Century; Acknowledgments; Suggested Further Reading and Bibliography