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Author : Frank Lestringant
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780745683669
This book focuses on the work of the great sixteenth-century traveller and map-maker Andre Thevat and explores the interrelations between representation and power in the age of discovery.
Author : Michael Swift,Angus Konstam
Publisher : Compendium Publishing & Communications
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Cities and towns, Renaissance
ISBN : 1906347107
A completely revised and updated, illustrated guide to the grounds that host Europe?s prestigious Champions League.
Author : Mark Rosen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781107067035
This well-illustrated study investigates the symbolic dimensions of painted maps as products of ambitious early modern European courts.
Author : Anne Armitage,Laura Beresford
Publisher : Scala Arts Publishers Incorporated
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : America
ISBN : 1857598229
The third book in a series for the American Museum in Britain, produced by Scala, showcasing the finest private holding of pre-1600 printed world maps on this side of the Atlantic.
Author : Neil Grant
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 61 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 8888166688
Text, maps, and illustrations reveal the art, architecture, trade, agriculture, religion, geographical discoveries, and other aspects of the Renaissance period throughout Europe.
Author : Richard W. Unger
Publisher : Springer
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2010-08-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230282162
Renaissance map-makers produced ever more accurate descriptions of geography, which were also beautiful works of art. They filled the oceans Europeans were exploring with ships and to describe the real ships which were the newest and best products of technology. Above all the ships were there to show the European conquest of the seas of the world.
Author : Surekha Davies
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2016-06-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107036673
Davies examines how Renaissance illustrated maps shaped ideas about peoples of the Americas, revealing relationships between civility, savagery and monstrosity.
Author : David Buisseret
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2003-05-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192100535
An eminent historian of cartography offers this Iavishly illustrated account of the mapmaking revolution in Renaissance Europe. 78 halftones. 12 color plates.
Author : Genevieve Carlton
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226255316
This book focuses on how inexpensive maps, produced for the masses, accrued cultural value for everyday consumers in Renaissance Italy, who wanted to own and display maps in their homes as works of artnot for practical use, but for their cultural capital as commodities. Genevieve Carlton considers how and why maps took on this new identity, as coveted and revered material objects and symbols of status and power, which in turn elevated or reinforced the public personae of their owners. She reconstructs the market for maps by examining household inventories as well as the ways in which maps were displayed in the interiors of Renaissance homes. Her survey shows that consumers from every level of society owned and displayed maps and used them for personal gain, to reinforce a particular identity."
Author : Genevieve Carlton
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226255453
Though the practical value of maps during the sixteenth century is well documented, their personal and cultural importance has been relatively underexamined. In Worldly Consumers, Genevieve Carlton explores the growing availability of maps to private consumers during the Italian Renaissance and shows how map acquisition and display became central tools for constructing personal identity and impressing one’s peers. Drawing on a variety of sixteenth-century sources, including household inventories, epigrams, dedications, catalogs, travel books, and advice manuals, Worldly Consumers studies how individuals displayed different maps in their homes as deliberate acts of self-fashioning. One citizen decorated with maps of Bruges, Holland, Flanders, and Amsterdam to remind visitors of his military prowess, for example, while another hung maps of cities where his ancestors fought or governed, in homage to his auspicious family history. Renaissance Italians turned domestic spaces into a microcosm of larger geographical places to craft cosmopolitan, erudite identities for themselves, creating a new class of consumers who drew cultural capital from maps of the time.
Author : Chet Van Duzer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Cartography
ISBN : 0712358900
The sea monsters on medieval and Renaissance maps, whether swimming vigorously, gamboling amid the waves, attacking ships, or simply displaying themselves for our appreciation, are one of the most visually engaging elements on these maps, and yet they have never been carefully studied. The subject is important not only in the history of cartography, art, and zoological illustration, but also in the history of the geography of the "marvelous" and of western conceptions of the ocean. Moreover, the sea monsters depicted on maps can supply important insights into the sources, influences, and methods of the cartographers who drew or painted them. In this highly-illustrated book the author analyzes the most important examples of sea monsters on medieval and Renaissance maps produced in Europe, beginning with the earliest mappaemundi on which they appear in the 10th century and continuing to the end of the 16th century.
Author : Francesca Fiorani
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0300107277
Among the most beautiful and compelling works of Renaissance art, painted maps adorned the halls and galleries of princely palaces. This book is the first to discuss in detail the three-dimensional display of these painted map cycles and their full meaning in Renaissance culture. Art historian Francesca Fiorani focuses on two of the most significant and marvelous surviving Italian map murals--the Guardaroba Nuova of the Palazzo Vecchio, Florence, commissioned by Duke Cosimo de’ Medici, and the Gallery of Maps in the Vatican, commissioned by Pope Gregory XIII. Both cycles were not only pioneering cartographic enterprises but also powerful political and religious images. Presenting an original interpretation of the interaction between art, science, politics, and religion in Renaissance culture, the book also offers fresh insights into the Medici and papal courts.
Author : Denis Cosgrove
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1999-04-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781861898364
Mappings explores what mapping has meant in the past and how its meanings have altered. How have maps and mapping served to order and represent physical, social and imaginative worlds? How has the practice of mapping shaped modern seeing and knowing? In what ways do contemporary changes in our experience of the world alter the meanings and practice of mapping, and vice versa? In their diverse expressions, maps and the representational processes of mapping have constructed the spaces of modernity since the early Renaissance. The map's spatial fixity, its capacity to frame, control and communicate knowledge through combining image and text, and cartography's increasing claims to scientific authority, make mapping at once an instrument and a metaphor for rational understanding of the world. Among the topics the authors investigate are projective and imaginative mappings; mappings of terraqueous spaces; mapping and localism at the 'chorographic' scale; and mapping as personal exploration. With essays by Jerry Brotton, Paul Carter, Michael Charlesworth, James Corner, Wystan Curnow, Christian Jacob, Luciana de Lima Martins, David Matless, Armand Mattelart, Lucia Nuti and Alessandro Scafi
Author : Sean Roberts
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013-02-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674071612
In 1482, the Florentine humanist and statesman Francesco Berlinghieri produced the Geographia, a book of over one hundred folio leaves describing the world in Italian verse, inspired by the ancient Greek geography of Ptolemy. The poem, divided into seven books (one for each day of the week the author “travels” the known world), is interleaved with lavishly engraved maps to accompany readers on this journey. Sean Roberts demonstrates that the Geographia represents the moment of transition between printing and manuscript culture, while forming a critical base for the rise of modern cartography. Simultaneously, the use of the Geographia as a diplomatic gift from Florence to the Ottoman Empire tells another story. This exchange expands our understanding of Mediterranean politics, European perceptions of the Ottomans, and Ottoman interest in mapping and print. The envoy to the Sultan represented the aspirations of the Florentine state, which chose not to bestow some other highly valued good, such as the city’s renowned textiles, but instead the best example of what Florentine visual, material, and intellectual culture had to offer.
Author : Jerry Brotton
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 686 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2012-09-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781846145704
Jerry Brotton is the presenter of the acclaimed BBC4 series 'Maps: Power, Plunder and Possession'. Here he tells the story of our world through maps. Throughout history, maps have been fundamental in shaping our view of the world, and our place in it. But far from being purely scientific objects, world maps are unavoidably ideological and subjective, intimately bound up with the systems of power and authority of particular times and places. Mapmakers do not simply represent the world, they construct it out of the ideas of their age. In this scintillating book, Jerry Brotton examines the significance of 12 maps - from the mystical representations of ancient history to the satellite-derived imagery of today. He vividly recreates the environments and circumstances in which each of the maps was made, showing how each conveys a highly individual view of the world - whether the Jerusalem-centred Christian perspective of the 14th century Hereford Mappa Mundi or the Peters projection of the 1970s which aimed to give due weight to 'the third world'. Although the way we map our surroundings is once more changing dramatically, Brotton argues that maps today are no more definitive or objective than they have ever been - but that they continue to make arguments and propositions about the world, and to recreate, shape and mediate our view of it. Readers of this book will never look at a map in quite the same way again.