Double agents cultural and political brokerage in early modern Europe

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ISBN: 9789004215078 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 9004215077 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 9789004202696
ISBN: 9004202692
Physical Description: electronic resource
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1 online resource (xv, 280 p., 21 p. of plates) : ill.
Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011.

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Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Introduction : double agents in early modern Europe ; The embassy of art : diplomats as cultural brokers / Marika Keblusek -- Art and patronage : Sir Henry Wotton and the Venetian embassy, 1604-1624 / Robert Hill -- Giovanni Andrea Doria : citizen of Genoa, Prince of Melfi, agent of King Philip II of Spain / Thomas Kirk -- Politics and letters : Gisbert Cuper as a servant of two republics / Bianca Chen -- Mercator sapiens : merchants as cultural entrepreneurs / Marika Keblusek -- Acquiring artistic expertise : the agent Daniel Nijs and his contacts with artists in Venice / Maartje van Gelder -- García de Yllán : a merchant in silver, bread and bullets and a broker in art, 1591-1655 / Maurits A. Ebben -- The pretext of pictures : artists as cultural and political agents / Marika Keblusek -- A spider in its web : agent and artist Michel le Blon and his northern European network / Badeloch Vera Noldus -- John Dowland's employment at the royal Danish court : musician, agent -- and spy? / Peter Hauge -- 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 -- "From Russia with love" : agents and their victims / Martin Dönike.
Source of Description Note:	Description based on print version record.