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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 December 2014
      28 November 2014
      ISBN:
      9781107589254
      9781107067035
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107589254
      Dimensions:
      (253 x 177 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.81kg, 318 Pages
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      • Subjects:
      Art, History, Western Art, History of Ideas and Intellectual History
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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.

    Awards

    Winner of the 2014 Founders Prize, Sixteenth Century Society and Conference

    Reviews

    '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.'

    Source: Sixteenth Century Society and Conference Prize Committee

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