TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rosen,Mark
TI  - The mapping of power in Renaissance Italy: painted cartographic cycles in social and intellectual context 
SN  - 9781107589254
AV  - GA893.5.A1 R67 2014eb
U1  - 912.4509/031 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Early maps
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Italy
KW  - Cartography
KW  - History
KW  - 16th century
KW  - Renaissance
KW  - Cartes anciennes
KW  - Aspect politique
KW  - Italie
KW  - Cartographie
KW  - Histoire
KW  - 16e siècle
KW  - REFERENCE
KW  - Atlases & Gazetteers
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - TRAVEL
KW  - Maps & Road Atlases
KW  - fast
KW  - Intellectual life
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 1559-1789
KW  - 1268-1559
KW  - Vie intellectuelle
KW  - Politique et gouvernement
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references; A lost world: maps as decoration before the sixteenth century -- Wonders unknown to the ancients: maps as decoration in the early-mid sixteenth century -- The Medici Guardaroba and its role in the Florentine cosmos -- "All the things of heaven and earth together": the Guardaroba Program -- Manufacturing a universe: the Medici Guardaroba and its cosmographers -- The maps of the Medici Guardaroba -- The Guardaroba and the late cinquecento map-cycle competition
N2  - 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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