Mark Rosen

The Mapping of Power in Renaissance Italy

Painted Cartographic Cycles in Social and Intellectual Context

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Produktbeschreibung

This well-illustrated study investigates the symbolic dimensions of painted maps as products of ambitious early modern European courts.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 318
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. November 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 261mm x 189mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 820g
• ISBN-13: 9781107067035
• ISBN-10: 1107067030
• Artikelnr.: 41612317

Autorenporträt

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 Florence, and he has held fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Kress Foundation.

Inhaltsangabe

1. A lost world: maps as decoration before the sixteenth century
2. Wonders unknown to the ancients: maps as decoration in the early to mid sixteenth century
3. The Medici Guardaroba and its role in the Florentine cosmos
4. 'All the things of heaven and earth together': the Guardaroba program
5. Manufacturing a universe: the Medici Guardaroba and its cosmographers
6. The maps of the Medici Guardaroba
7. The Guardaroba and the late cinquecento map-cycle competition
Appendix: the curriculum of Don Stefano Buonsignori.