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Bodies and maps : early modern personifications of the continents /
"Since antiquity, artists have visualized the known world through the female (sometimes male) body. In the age of exploration, America was added to figures of Europe, Asia, and Africa who would come to inhabit the borders of geographical visual imagery. In the abundance of personifications in p...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico Congresos, conferencias eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
[2021].
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| Colección: | Intersections (Boston, Mass.) ;
v. 73. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Personifications of the continents and issues of race and gender
- Cartographical origins of early continent personification
- Personifications of the world in Italian frescoes
- Continent personifications in maps and book illustration
- Popularization of continent personifications in the eighteenth century.