Resumen de The worldly artist in the Seventeenth Century: the travels of Cornelis Claesz. Heda
Deborah Hutton, Rebecca Tucker
This essay examines the career of Cornelis Claesz. Heda, one of the first Dutch artist known to have travelled to India, and addresses the question of how an artist might have operated within the early modern global marketplace. Heda's travels encompassed Haarlem in the Dutch Republic, the imperial court of Rudolf II at Prague, Safavid Iran under Shah Abbas I, Portuguese-controlled Goa, and finally the sultanate of Bijapur ruled by Ibrahim Adil Shah II. Heda's career illuminates the types of opportunities and possibilities for success available in disparate international settings. It also complicates current assumptions about the movement of artist in the seventeenth century. By adopting a comparative and collaborative model, the essay deepens an unerstanding of courtly art during the early modern era and addresses methodological issues pertaining to the development of a world(ly), rather than global, art history.
