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Imagining the New World : Columbian iconography / catalogue edited by Irma B. Jaffe, Gianni Eugenio Viola, Franca Rovigatti.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Columbus, Christopher--Influence--Exhibitions.
- Columbus, Christopher.
- Public opinion--Europe--Exhibitions.
- Public opinion.
- Exhibitions.
- Civilization.
- Europe--Civilization--American influences--Exhibitions.
- Europe.
- America--Discovery and exploration--Exhibitions.
- America.
- Discoveries in geography.
- America--Foreign public opinion, European--Exhibitions.
- Genre:
- Catalogs.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 234 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), facsimiles, maps, portraits ; 24 x 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Roma ; New York : Istituto della Enciclopedia italiana : Fondata da Giovanni Treccani, [1991]
- Contents:
- Marvels, maps and monsters: Europe eyes the New World / Wilcomb E. Washburn
- Widening horizons: navigation in the age of discovery / Silvio A. Bedini
- The New World and the end of the world: evangelizing sixteenth-century Mexico / Pauline Moffitt Watts
- The press comes to the Americas: printing and printers during the first century of the encounter of two worlds / W. Michael Mathes
- Beyond the pillars of Hercules
- The "true" face of Columbus
- A new, astonishing flora and fauna
- The Renaissance image of the American town
- The European portrayal of the native Americans
- Cartography of the New World
- America seen from Europe
- The Church discovers America
- Europe and America: a history of a "biological exchange" / Antonio Di Meo.
- Notes:
- "This catalogue ... [was] conceived and organized by the Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana Treccani in cooperation with The New-York Historical Society on the occasion of the Quincentenary of the European Encounter with the Americas."--Verso t.p.
- Exhibition held at The New-York Historical Society Museum, November 13, 1991 - January 26, 1992.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- OCLC:
- 25587492
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