Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 5
3. Preface 7
4. Introduction. Mediating Cultures 9
5. 1. Terms of Reception. Europeans and Persians and Each Other’s Art 25
6. 2. Reconfiguring the Northern European Print to Depict Sacred History at the Persian Court 65
7. 3. Dutch Cemeteries in South India 83
8. 4. Coasts and Interiors of India. Early Modern Indo-Dutch Cross-Cultural Exchanges 95
9. 5. Art and Material Culture in the Cape Colony and Batavia in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries 111
10. 6. Indische Architecture in Indonesia 129
11. 7. The Cultural Dimension of the Dutch East India Company. Settlements in Dutch-Period Ceylon, 1700-1800 – With Special Reference to Galle 141
12. 8. European Artists in the Service of the Dutch East India Company 177
13. 9. Scratching the Surface. The Impact of the Dutch on Artistic and Material Culture in Taiwan and China 205
14. 10. The Dutch Presence in Japan. The VOC on Deshima and Its Impact on Japanese Culture 239
15. 11. From Optical Prints to Ukie to Ukiyoe. The Adoption and Adaptation of Western Linear Perspective in Japan 245
16. 12. Japan’s Encounters with the West through the VOC. Western Paintings and Their Appropriation in Japan 267
17. 13. “To Capture Their Favor”. On Gift-Giving by the VOC 291
18. 14. Circulating Art and Material Culture. A Model of Transcultural Mediation 321
19. Illustration Credits 329
20. Index 337