Cultures of Things in Early Modern Antwerp (New York, 27-29 March 14)

CFP/Appel à contribution New York, RSA, March 27 - 29, 2014 Cultures of Things in Early Modern Antwerp: Values, Identities, and Transformations In the past years there has been a growing interest in the circulation of precious objects in the early modern world. Taking these recent studies on early modern cultures of making, collecting, and representation as its point of departure, this panel focuses on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Antwerp as the site of a particularly rich and diverse ‘..