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Lies of the Land - Painted Maps in Late Medieval and Early Modern France

Inglese · Copertina rigida

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Lies of the Land examines the often-overlooked artistic roots of mapmaking practice in early modern France, offering an original perspective on discourses of accuracy and their relationship to the pictorial origins of modern mapmaking. Until the seventeenth century, most mapmakers in France were painters. Schooled in techniques of drawing and perspective-and in the careful study of nature that we associate with early modernity-they also learned the more expressive and imaginative Mannerist forms that dominated French painting in this period. Their maps draw on conventions of both painting and mapmaking to create beautiful, informative, and persuasive images for a wide variety of contexts and purposes. In this book, Camille Serchuk explores the strategies these cartographers deployed to weave together accuracy, ornament, and artifice in maps at all scales. Looking beyond the techniques of measurement and perspective, Serchuk shows how painterly interventions framed and manipulated the appearance and reception of cartographic objects. Lies of the Land is an important new assessment of the character and status of early modern cartography that challenges binary distinctions between art and science and between decorative and epistemic images. It will appeal especially to art historians and historians of sixteenth-century France as well as scholars of map history.

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Camille Serchuk is Professor of Art History at Southern Connecticut State University. She is the cocurator, coauthor, and coeditor of the exhibition and prize-winning catalogue Quand les artistes dessinaient les cartes: Vues et figures de l’espace français, Moyen Âge et Renaissance.

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Autori Camille Serchuk, Camille (Southern Connecticut State University) Serchuk
Editore University Presses
 
Lingue Inglese
Formato Copertina rigida
Pubblicazione 28.01.2025
 
EAN 9780271097732
ISBN 978-0-271-09773-2
Dimensioni 203 mm x 254 mm x 23 mm
Peso 1089 g
Illustrazioni Raster,schwarz-weiss, Raster, farbig
Categorie Scienze umane, arte, musica > Arte > Storia dell'arte

France, ART / History / General, HISTORY / Historical Geography, History of art / art & design styles, History of Art, Historical Geography, ART / European / General

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