Double agents
Subtitle: cultural and political brokerage in early modern Europe
By: edited by Marika Keblusek and Badeloch Vera Noldus
Series: Studies in medieval and Reformation traditions -- v. 154; Studies in medieval and Reformation traditions -- v. 154.
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9789004202696
Subjects: Politics and government; Commercial agents; Artists' representatives; Relations; Spies; Foreign agents; Court and courtiers; Cultural relations; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : double agents in early modern Europe ;; title: The embassy of art : diplomats as cultural brokers  -- Marika Keblusek; title: Art and patronage : Sir Henry Wotton and the Venetian embassy, 1604-1624  -- Robert Hill; title: Giovanni Andrea Doria : citizen of Genoa, Prince of Melfi, agent of King Philip II of Spain  -- Thomas Kirk; title: Politics and letters : Gisbert Cuper as a servant of two republics  -- Bianca Chen; title: Mercator sapiens : merchants as cultural entrepreneurs  -- Marika Keblusek; title: Acquiring artistic expertise : the agent Daniel Nijs and his contacts with artists in Venice  -- Maartje van Gelder; title: García de Yllán : a merchant in silver, bread and bullets and a broker in art, 1591-1655  -- Maurits A. Ebben; title: The pretext of pictures : artists as cultural and political agents  -- Marika Keblusek; title: A spider in its web : agent and artist Michel le Blon and his northern European network  -- Badeloch Vera Noldus; title: John Dowland's employment at the royal Danish court : musician, agent -- and spy?  -- Peter Hauge; title: Travels of a court jester : Gonzalo de Liaño, art agent at the court of King Philip II of Spain  -- Susanne Kubersky-Piredda and Salvador Salort Pons; title: "From Russia with love" : agents and their victims -- Martin Dönike.