Introduction: Mediating Cultures
Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, and Michael North
1 Terms of Reception: Europeans and Persians and each other’s Art
Gary Schwartz
2 Reconfiguring the Northern European Print to Depict Sacred History at the Persian Court
Amy Landau
3 Dutch Cemeteries in South India
Martin Krieger
4 Coasts and Interiors of India:
Early Modern Indo-Dutch Cross Cultural Exchanges
Ranabir Chakravarti
5 Art and Material Culture in the Cape Colony and Batavia in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Michael North
6 Indische Architecture in Indonesia
Peter Nas
7 The Cultural Dimension of the Dutch East India Company Settlements in Dutch-Period Ceylon, 1700-1800, with special reference to Galle
Lodewijk Wagenaar
8 European Artists in the Service of the Dutch East India Company
Marten Jan Bok
9 Scratching the Surface: On the Dutch in Taiwan and China
Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann
10 The Dutch Presence in Japan: The VOC on Deshima and its Impact on the Japanese Culture
Matthi Forrer and Yoriko Kobayashi-Sato
11 From Optical Prints to Ukie to Ukiyoe: The Adoption and Adaptation of Western Linear Perspective in Japan
Matthi Forrer
12 Japan’s Encounters with the West through the VOC: Western Paintings and their Appropriation in Japan
Yoriko Kobayashi-Sato
13 “To Capture their Favour”: On Gift-Giving by the VOC
Cynthia Viallé
14 Circulating Art and Material Culture: A Model of Transcultural Mediation
Astrid Erll