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Bodies and Maps Early Modern Personifications of the Continents.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Boston :
BRILL,
2020.
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| Colección: | Intersections Ser.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Illustrations
- Notes on the Editors
- Notes on the Contributors
- Chapter 1 Introduction (1): Rival Interpretations of Continent Personifications
- Chapter 2 Introduction (2): Allegories of the Four Continents Today: Assessing Contemporary Contributions
- Part 1 Personifications of the Continents and Issues of Race and Gender
- Chapter 3 Gender and Race in the Personification of the Continents in the Early Modern Period: Building Eurocentrism
- Chapter 4 Exotic Female (and Male) Continents: Early Modern Fourfold Division of Humanity
- PART 2 Cartographical Origins of Early Continent Personification
- Chapter 5 The Pre-History of the Personification of Continents on Maps: Earth, Ocean, and the Sons of Noah
- Chapter 6 Magi, Winds, Continents: Dark Skin and Global Allegory in Early Modern Images
- Part 3 Personifications of the World in Italian Frescoes
- Chapter 7 Casting the Continents: Sacred History and Spiritual Odyssey in the Camposanto of Pisa
- Chapter 8 Portraits of the World
- The Four Continents at Palazzo Farnese in Caprarola: The Figurative Code, Sources and Comparisons
- Part 4 Continent Personifications in Maps and Book Illustration
- Chapter 9 Why were there no Continental Allegories in Renaissance Venice? The Amerasian Personifications of Giuseppe Rosaccio
- Chapter 10 Worlds Apart: The Four Continents and the Civitates Orbis Terrarum
- Chapter 11 When Allegory Met History: Allegories of the Continents on Costume-Book Title Pages in the Late Sixteenth Century
- Part 5 Popularization of Continent Personifications in the Eighteenth Century
- Chapter 12 The Visible Church. The Discourse on an Ecclesia Triumphans and the Four Continents in Parish Churches of Baroque Southern Germany
- Chapter 13 The Rearing Horse and the Kneeling Camel: Continental Ceramics and Europe's Race to Modernity
- Chapter 14 Collecting the Four Continents: James Hazen Hyde (1876-1959), an American in Paris
- Chapter 15 Afterword: Ornament and the Fabrication of Early Modern Worlds
- Index Nominum