Art in Theory. Группа авторов

      1  Cover

      2  Title Page

      3  Copyright Page

      4  Dedication Page

      5  Acknowledgements

      6  A Note on the Presentation and Editing of Texts

      7  General Introduction Art and the issue of ‘globalization’ The Art in Theory project Issues of selection and organization The question of where to begin The contemporary situation

      8  Part I: Encountering the World IA Figures of Wealth and Power IA1 Robert of Clari (fl c.1200–16) from The Conquest of Constantinople IA2 Giovanni di Pian de Carpini (‘John of Carpini’) (c.1185–1252) from his Journey to the Court of Kuyuk Khan IA3 Marco Polo (1254–1324) from The Travels IA4 ‘Sir John Mandeville’ (fl c.1350–60) from his Travels IA5 Various authors on artistic and cultural relations between Italian city states and the Ottoman and Mamluk empires during the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries IA5(i) Sigismondo Malatesta of Rimini (1417–68) Letter of introduction for Matteo de’ Pasti to Mehmed II IA5(ii) Marin Sanudo (1466–1536) from his diary for 1 August 1479 IA5(iii) Mehmed II (1432–81) to the Venetian Senate IA5(iv) The Venetian Senate Letter to Mehmed II IA5(v) Luca Landucci (c.1436–1516) from his Florentine diary IA5(vi) Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) from a letter to Sultan Bayezid II IA5(vii) Tommaso di Tolfo from a letter to Michelangelo IA6 Giovanni da Empoli (1483–1518) On India, Ceylon and the Spice Islands IA7 João de Castro (1500–48) from Roteiro de Goa até Dio IA8 Simão de Melo (d. 1570) from an inventory of his goods IA9 Johann Huyghen van Linschoten (1563–1611) On Indian religious art IA10 Duarte de Sande (1547–99) from ‘An Excellent Treatise of the Kingdom of China’ IA11 Matteo Ricci (1552–1610) from his journal IA12 Jean‐Baptiste Tavernier (1605–89) On the Peacock Throne IB Across the Ocean Sea IB1 Christopher Columbus (1451–1506) Two texts from his first voyage to America IB2 Amerigo Vespucci (1451–1512) Letter to Lorenzo Pietro Franco de Medici IB3 Hernán Cortés (1485–1547) Two letters from Mexico IB4 Bartolomé de Las Casas (1474–1566) from Apologetic History of the Indies IB5 Toribio de Benavente (‘Motolinía’) (1482–1568) from History of the Indians of New Spain IB6 First Provincial Council in Lima (1551–2) On the destruction of Indian sacred sites IB7 Jean de Léry (1534–1613) from History of a Voyage to the Land of Brazil IB8 Thomas Harriot (1560–1621) from A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia IB9 Bernardo de Balbuena (c.1561/68–1627) from Grandeza Mexicana IB10 Juan Rodríguez Freile (1566–c.1640) On the legend of El Dorado IB11 John Lok (c.1533–c.1615) A Voyage to Guinea in the year 1554 IB12 Olfert Dapper (1636–89) On the city of Benin IB13 William Dampier (1652–1715) The first encounter with indigenous Australian people IC Scholarly Responses IC1 Anon. from the Inventory of the Palazzo Medici IC2 Albrecht Dürer (1471–1528) from his diary of his journey to the Netherlands IC3 Thomas Platter (1574–1628) On Mr Cope’s cabinet of curiosities IC4 Michel de Montaigne (1533–92) ‘On the Cannibals’ IC5 Christopher Marlowe (1564–93) from Tamburlaine the Great IC6 Francis Bacon (1561–1626) ‘Of Plantations’ IC7 Francis Bacon (1561–1626) from New Atlantis IC8 Martin de Charmois (1609–61), from his Petition to the King and to the Lords of his Council IC9 Dorothy Osborne (1627–95) from letters to Sir William Temple IC10 Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679) ‘Of the Naturall Condition of Mankind’ IC11 John Tradescant (1608–62) from the Museum Tradescantianum, or A Collection of Rarities IC12