Dr Leah R Clark

Associate Professor in History of Art

Kellogg College

leah.clark@conted.ox.ac.uk

Research Interests

My research explores the exchange and mobility of art objects in the fifteenth century. I am interested in the intersections between collecting, diplomacy, and trade in the Italian courts (Ferrara and Naples in particular). My current interests around the global collection of objects has led me to expand outwards from Italy to consider exchanges with the Mamluk and Ottoman courts and also consider the sensorial conditions of transcultural objects.

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Courtly Mediators: Transcultural Objects between Renaissance Italy and the Islamic World (Cambridge University Press, July 2023)

In Courtly Mediators, Leah R. Clark investigates the exchange of a range of materials and objects, including metalware, ceramic drug jars, Chinese porcelain, and aromatics, across the early modern Italian, Mamluk, and Ottoman courts. She provides a new narrative that places Aragonese Naples at the center of an international courtly culture, where cosmopolitanism and the transcultural flourished, and in which artists, ambassadors, and luxury goods actively participated.

Dr Leah R Clark

Featured Publications

Courtly Mediators: Transcultural Objects between Renaissance Italy and the Islamic World (Cambridge University Press, July 2023)

Publications