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The Mapping of Power in Renaissance Italy on Hardback by Mark Rosen
The Mapping of Power in Renaissance Italy on Hardback by Mark Rosen
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The Mapping of Power in Renaissance Italy

Painted Cartographic Cycles in Social and Intellectual Context
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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 its printed maps and atlases. Challenging the belief that maps are strictly neutral or technical markers of geographic progress, this well-illustrated study investigates the symbolic and propagandistic dimensions of these painted maps as products of the competitive and ambitious European court culture that produced them.

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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.
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November 28th, 2014
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  • Professional & Vocational
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8 Plates, color; 75 Halftones, unspecified; 16 Line drawings, unspecified
Pages
318
Dimensions
187x261x18
ISBN-13
9781107067035
Product ID
22430429

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