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The Mapping of Power in Renaissance Italy: Painted Cartographic Cycles in Social and Intellectual Context
Mark Rosen
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Description for The Mapping of Power in Renaissance Italy: Painted Cartographic Cycles in Social and Intellectual Context
hardcover. This well-illustrated study investigates the symbolic dimensions of painted maps as products of ambitious early modern European courts. Num Pages: 318 pages, 91 b/w illus. 8 colour illus. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3JB; ACND; AFC; HBTP1; JFCX. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 179 x 263 x 17. Weight in Grams: 818.
How did maps of the distant reaches of the world communicate to the public in an era when exploration of those territories was still ongoing and knowledge about them remained incomplete? And why did Renaissance rulers frequently commission large-scale painted maps of those territories when they knew that they would soon be proven obsolete by newer, more accurate information? The Mapping of Power in Renaissance Italy addresses these questions by bridging the disciplines of art history and the histories of science, cartography, and geography to closely examine surviving Italian painted maps that were commissioned during a period better known for ... Read more
How did maps of the distant reaches of the world communicate to the public in an era when exploration of those territories was still ongoing and knowledge about them remained incomplete? And why did Renaissance rulers frequently commission large-scale painted maps of those territories when they knew that they would soon be proven obsolete by newer, more accurate information? The Mapping of Power in Renaissance Italy addresses these questions by bridging the disciplines of art history and the histories of science, cartography, and geography to closely examine surviving Italian painted maps that were commissioned during a period better known for ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
318
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107067035
SKU
V9781107067035
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99-11
About Mark Rosen
Mark Rosen is Assistant Professor of Aesthetic Studies at the University of Texas, Dallas. A specialist in the art and cartography of early modern Europe, he has published work in The Art Bulletin, Oud Holland, Nuncius, and the Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz. He was formerly a Fellow of the Medici Archive Project at the Archivio di Stato in ... Read more
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'Mark Rosen's The Mapping of Power in Renaissance Italy: Painted Cartographic Cycles in Social and Intellectual Context struck us as the most original, most thoughtfully grounded in theory, best researched, and most beautifully written of the manuscripts.' Sixteenth Century Society and Conference Prize Committee