Book Launch - K.J.P. Lowe, 'Provenance and Possession: Acquisitions from the Portuguese Empire in Renaissance Italy'
- Event type
- Round table discussion
- Address
- Warburg Institute, Woburn Square, London WC1H 0AB
- Event dates
- Contact
- warburg@sas.ac.uk 020 7862 8910
An event to celebrate the publication of Kate Lowe's Provenance and Possession: Acquisitions from the Portuguese Empire in Renaissance Italy (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2024), expanded from the Gombrich Lectures, June 2019.
In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, Renaissance Italy received a bounty of acquisitions from Portuguese trading voyages, including enslaved people, exotic animals and luxury goods. Some scholars hold that this imperial ‘opening up’ of the world transformed the way Europeans understood the global. In this book, Kate Lowe challenges such an assumption, showing that Italians of this era cared more about the possession than the provenance of their newly acquired global goods.
The book represents a contribution to considering the interaction between the Portuguese voyages around the globe and the Italian Renaissance.
Short talks on various aspects of the book will be given by:
Zoltán Biedermann (UCL)
Filippo De Vivo (Oxford)
Michael Backman (Michael Backman Ltd.)
Kirstin Kennedy (V&A)
Steve Goodwin (formerly ZSL, London Zoo)
ATTENDANCE FREE WITH ADVANCE BOOKING
