Bodies and Maps - Early Modern Personifications of the Continents

An exploration of the ways early modern European artists have visualized continents through the female (sometimes male) body to express their perceptions of newly encountered peoples. Often stereotypical, these personifications are however more complex than what they seem.

About the author

Maryanne Cline Horowitz, Ph.D. (1970), is Professor of History, Occidental College, and Associate, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, University of California, Los Angeles. She won the Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural History of the American Philosophical Society for her Seeds of Virtue and Knowledge (Princeton, 1998), and served as Editor-in-Chief of the New Dictionary of the History of Ideas (Charles Scribner's Sons, 2005).

Louise Arizzoli, Ph.D. (2013) is an Instructional Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Mississippi. She has published on the iconography of the Four Continents in the arts and on the history of collections and the art market, including "James Hazen Hyde and the Allegory of the Four Continents: A Research Collection for an Amateur Art Historian" (The Journal for the History of Collections, 2013).

Product details

• Assisted by: Louise Arizzoli (Editor), Maryanne Cline Horowitz (Editor)
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.12.2020
• EAN: 9789004387904
• ISBN: 978-90-04-38790-4
• No. of pages: 436
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 239 mm x 29 mm
• Weight: 936 g
• Series: Intersections
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918