Luxury for Export

Download or read book Luxury for Export written by Pedro de Moura Carvalho and published by Periscope. This book was released on 2008 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soon after the Portuguese opened the first direct sea route from Europe to Asia, they established trading centers in India and Sri Lanka. By the early 1500s, the courts and the cities of Europe had become avid consumers of luxury goods imported form South Asia. This book shows how the trade in exotica spurred the development of an extraordinary hybrid art, at once Indian and Portufuese. Many of the feautred objects have never before been properly identified or presented to the public. AUTHOR: Pedro Moura Carvalho is Aga Khan Fellow at Harvard University. 57 illustrations