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The Mapping of Power in Renaissance Italy - Painted Cartographic Cycles in Social and Intellectual Context (Hardcover)
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The Mapping of Power in Renaissance Italy - Painted Cartographic Cycles in Social and Intellectual Context (Hardcover)
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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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