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The marvel of maps : art, cartography and politics in Renaissance Italy / Francesca Fiorani.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fiorani, Francesca, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Art, Renaissance--Italy--Florence.
- Art, Renaissance.
- Art, Renaissance--Italy--Rome.
- Cartography--Italy--History--16th century.
- Cartography.
- Renaissance--Italy.
- Renaissance.
- Courts and courtiers.
- Florence (Italy)--Court and courtiers.
- Florence (Italy).
- Rome (Italy)--Court and courtiers.
- Rome (Italy).
- Italy--Florence.
- Italy--Rome.
- Italy.
- Cosimo I, Grand-Duke of Tuscany, 1519-1574.
- Cosimo.
- Gregory XIII, Pope, 1502-1585.
- Gregory.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (ix, 347 pages) : 162 illustrations (some color), maps (some color)
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven : Yale University Press, [2005]
- Summary:
- "Among the most beautiful and compelling works of Renaissance art, painted maps adorned the halls and galleries of princely palaces. This book is the first to discuss in detail the three-dimensional display of these painted map cycles and their full meaning in Renaissance culture. Art historian Francesca Fiorani focuses on two of the most significant and marvelous surviving Italian map murals--the Guardaroba Nuova of the Palazzo Vecchio, Florence, commissioned by Duke Cosimo de' Medici, and the Gallery of Maps in the Vatican, commissioned by Pope Gregory XIII. Both cycles were not only pioneering cartographic enterprises but also powerful political and religious images. Presenting an original interpretation of the interaction between art, science, politics, and religion in Renaissance culture, the book also offers fresh insights into the Medici and papal courts"--Publisher's description.
- Contents:
- Interpreting Renaissance map cycles
- The Guardaroba Nuova
- "The cosmos is Cosimo's ornament"
- The ordering of maps
- The mapping of the modern world
- The Sala Bologna of Gregory XIII
- The gallery of maps
- The primacy of Italy
- The mapping of the universal church.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record and online resource (A&AePortal, viewed on October 25, 2022).
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 318-337) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780300270464
- 0300270461
- OCLC:
- 1348694516
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