Sites of Mediation

Susanna Burghartz is Professor of History at the University of Basel. She has published on European travel reports during the first globalization, urban society in Renaissance and early modern Switzerland, perception and mediality, gender history, and on the Reformation and confessionalisation periods.Lucas Burkart is Professor of History at the University of Basel. He has published on various topics including late medieval visual culture, medieval treasury, the culture of collection and science in Baroque Rome, and the history of medieval and Renaissance historiography.Christine Göttler is Professor of Art History at the University of Bern. She has published extensively on diverse topics ranging from Reformation iconoclasm, post-Tridentine spirituality, and the relationship between art, nature, and the senses to aspects of early modern artists’ materials.

• AcknowledgementsNotes on the Editors Notes on the ContributorsList of IllustrationsIntroduction: ‘Sites of Mediation’ in Early Modern Europe and Beyond. A Working PerspectiveSusanna Burghartz, Lucas Burkart, and Christine GöttlerI. Staging EncountersRome and its Indies: A Global System of Knowledge at the End of the Sixteenth CenturyAntonella RomanoStaging Genoa in Antwerp: The Triumphal Arch of the Genoese Nation for the Blijde Inkomst of Archduke Ernest of Austria into Antwerp, 1594Ivo RabandSetting the Stage for Oneself and Others: Venice and the Levant in the Fifteenth CenturyBenedikt Bego-GhinaThe Queen in the Pawnshop: Shaping Civic Virtues in a Painting for the Palazzo dei Camerlenghi in VeniceNicolai KölmelThrough the Stained-Glass: The Basel Schützenhaus as a Site of EncounterMichael SchaffnerII. Translation, Transmission, TransformationThe Kux as a Site of Mediation: Economic Practices and Material Desires in the Early Modern German Mining IndustryTina AsmussenMediating between Art and Nature: The Countess of Arundel at Tart HallJennifer RabeThe ‘Hortus Siccus’ as a Focal Point: Knowledge, Environment, and Image in Felix Platter’s and Caspar Bauhin’s HerbariaDavina BenkertTranslation, Mobility, and Mediation: The Case of the Codex MendozaDaniela Bleichmar Collaborative Craftsmanship and Chimeric Creation in Seventeenth-Century Antwerp Art CabinetsNadia S. BaadjIII. Fluid WorldsHermaphrodites in Basel? Figures of Ambiguity and the Early Modern PhysicianSarah-Maria SchoberRiches of the Sea: Collecting and Consuming Frans Snijders’s Marine Market Paintings in the Southern NetherlandsStefanie Wyssenbach Negotiating Arctic Waters: John Davis’s The Worldes Hydrographical DiscriptionFranziska HilfikerFortunes at Sea: Mediated Goods and Dutch Trade, Circa 1600Claudia SwanIndex Nominum