Author : Mark Rosen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 11,72 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Art
ISBN : 1107067030
This well-illustrated study investigates the symbolic dimensions of painted maps as products of ambitious early modern European courts.
Author : Genevieve Carlton
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 49,53 MB
Release : 2015-06-22
Category : History
ISBN : 022625531X
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 : Francesca Fiorani
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 29,97 MB
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780300107272
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.
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Page : pages
File Size : 45,25 MB
Release : 2014
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ISBN : 9781107664128
Author : David Young Kim
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 26,16 MB
Release : 2014-12-23
Category : Art
ISBN : 0300198671
This important and innovative book examines artists' mobility as a critical aspect of Italian Renaissance art. It is well known that many eminent artists such as Cimabue, Giotto, Donatello, Lotto, Michelangelo, Raphael, and Titian traveled. This book is the first to consider the sixteenth-century literary descriptions of their journeys in relation to the larger Renaissance discourse concerning mobility, geography, the act of creation, and selfhood. David Young Kim carefully explores relevant themes in Giorgio Vasari's monumental Lives of the Artists, in particular how style was understood to register an artist's encounter with place. Through new readings of critical ideas, long-standing regional prejudices, and entire biographies, The Traveling Artist in the Italian Renaissance provides a groundbreaking case for the significance of mobility in the interpretation of art and the wider discipline of art history.
Author : Elizabeth Horodowich
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 41,76 MB
Release : 2018-09-06
Category : Art
ISBN : 1107150876
Demonstrates how Venetian newsmongers played a crucial yet heretofore unrecognized role in the invention of America.
Author : Walter Mignolo
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 23,26 MB
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 9780472089314
An exploration of the role of the book, the map, and the European concept of literacy in the conquest of the New World
Author : Alexander J. Kent
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 17,34 MB
Release : 2017-10-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 1317568222
This new Handbook unites cartographic theory and praxis with the principles of cartographic design and their application. It offers a critical appraisal of the current state of the art, science, and technology of map-making in a convenient and well-illustrated guide that will appeal to an international and multi-disciplinary audience. No single-volume work in the field is comparable in terms of its accessibility, currency, and scope. The Routledge Handbook of Mapping and Cartography draws on the wealth of new scholarship and practice in this emerging field, from the latest conceptual developments in mapping and advances in map-making technology to reflections on the role of maps in society. It brings together 43 engaging chapters on a diverse range of topics, including the history of cartography, map use and user issues, cartographic design, remote sensing, volunteered geographic information (VGI), and map art. The title’s expert contributions are drawn from an international base of influential academics and leading practitioners, with a view to informing theoretical development and best practice. This new volume will provide the reader with an exceptionally wide-ranging introduction to mapping and cartography and aim to inspire further engagement within this dynamic and exciting field. The Routledge Handbook of Mapping and Cartography offers a unique reference point that will be of great interest and practical use to all map-makers and students of geographic information science, geography, cultural studies, and a range of related disciplines.
Author : P. D. A. Harvey
Publisher :
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 34,36 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Cartography
ISBN :
Professor Harvey traces the development of western mapmaking from the early Middle Ages to the first printed maps of the late 15th century, discussing their traditions, artistic and technical aspects, and uses.
Author : Andrea Gamberini
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 650 pages
File Size : 43,38 MB
Release : 2012-03-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107010123
This magisterial study proposes a revised and innovative view of the political history of Renaissance Italy. Drawing on comparative examples from across the peninsula and the kingdoms of Sicily, Sardinia and Corsica, an international team of leading scholars highlights the complexity and variety of the Italian world from the fourteenth to early sixteenth centuries, surveying the mosaic of kingdoms, principalities, signorie and republics against a backdrop of wider political themes common to all types of state in the period. The authors address the contentious problem of the apparent weakness of the Italian Renaissance political system. By repositioning the Renaissance as a political, rather than simply an artistic and cultural phenomenon, they identify the period as a pivotal moment in the history of the state, in which political languages, practices and tools, together with political and governmental institutions, became vital to the evolution of a modern European political identity.
