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De grote Rubens atlas
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ISBN: 9789401445900 Year: 2020 Volume: deel 1 Publisher: Tielt Lannoo

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Op reis met Peter Paul RubensPeter Paul Rubens leefde in een spannende tijd. Denk maar aan de belangrijke artistieke uitwisseling met Italië, de godsdienststrijd, de rol van mecenassen... En Rubens profileerde zich als man van de wereld: een succesvol kunstenaar, maar ook een gerespecteerd diplomaat en polyglot.In De Grote Rubens Atlas volgen we de levensweg van de meester die begint in Duitsland en vervolgens voert naar Italië, Spanje, Engeland en vooral Antwerpen waar hij het grootste deel van zijn leven doorbrengt.We zien de wereld waarin hij woonde, werkte en zich ontplooide en ontdekken op een originele manier de plekken waar deze kunstenaar van wereldfaam zich liet inspireren. Uiteraard wordt deze atlas rijkelijk geïllustreerd met werk van de meester zelf.Reis mee met Rubens door Europa, langs alle plaatsen waar hij zijn voetafdruk achterliet.https://www.lannoo.be/nl/de-grote-rubens-atlas


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Mapping mountains
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ISBN: 9789004441682 9004441689 9789004441231 9004441239 Year: 2020 Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill,

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Mountains appear in the oldest known maps yet their representation has proven a notoriously difficult challenge for map makers. In this essay, Ernesto Capello surveys the broad history of relief representation in cartography with an emphasis on the allegorical, commercial and political uses of mapping mountains. After an initial overview and critique of the traditional historiography and development of techniques of relief representation, the essay features four clusters of mountain mapping emphases. These include visions of mountains as paradise, the mountain as site of colonial and postcolonial encounter, the development of elevation profiles and panoramas, and mountains as mass-marketed touristed itineraries.


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Maps of the moon : lunar cartography from the seventeenth century to the space age
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ISBN: 9004400893 9789004400894 9004400885 9789004400887 Year: 2020 Publisher: Leiden Brill

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"When does a depiction of the moon become a lunar map? This publication addresses this question from theoretical and historical standpoints. It is argued that moon maps are of crucial importance to the history of cartography, for they challenge established notions of what a map is, how it functions, what its purposes are, and what kind of power it embodies and performs. The publication also shows how terrestrial cartography has shaped the history of lunar mapping since the seventeenth century, through visual and nomenclature conventions, the cultural currency of maps, mapmakers' social standing, and data-gathering and projection practices. It further demonstrates that lunar cartography has also been organized by an internal principle that is born of the fundamental problem of how to create static map spaces capable of representing a referent that is constantly changing to our eyes, as is the visible face of the moon. It is suggested that moon maps may be classed in three broad categories, according to the kinds of solutions for this representational problem that have been devised over the last 400 years".


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Catalan Maps and Jewish Books : The Intellectual Profile of Elisha ben Abraham Cresques (1325 - 1387)
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ISBN: 9782503585482 2503585485 Year: 2020 Volume: 15 Publisher: Tunrhout Brepols

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This books describes the life of Elisa ben Abraham Cresques, known to many as the author of the Catalan Atlas, and focuses on the Jewish aspects of his fascinating career, his professional profile, and his scholarship. This book presents a small chapter in the intellectual history of the Jews of Majorca. Its key figure is Elisha ben Abraham Bevenisti Cresques (1325–1387) a cartographer in the service of King Peter IV of Aragon and a scribe and illuminator of Hebrew books. Elisha Cresques’ career evolves at a point in time when some of the most fascinating threads of methodological interests relevant to intellectual history meet. He emerges as a hub, so to speak, where mapmaking converged with scribal work, miniature painting with scientific knowledge, and the culture of a minority with that of the majority. How he was able to negotiate his patron’s expectations and his own cultural identity and frame them within the political, cultural, and religious discourses of his time is the subject of this book. Katrin Kogman-Appel holds an Alexander von Humboldt Professorship in Jewish Studies (2015–2020), which she took up at the University of Münster. A scholar of medieval Jewish book culture, she is the author of Illuminated Haggadot from Medieval Spain (2007), which won the Premio del Rey Prize of the American Historical Association in 2009. Her A Mahzor from Worms (2012) was a finalist of the National Jewish Book Award. - Brepols


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Erudite Eyes : Friendship, Art and Erudition in the Network of Abraham Ortelius (1527-1598)
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ISBN: 9789004429017 Year: 2020 Publisher: Leiden Brill

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De grote Bruegel atlas
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ISBN: 9789401445894 Year: 2020 Volume: deel 2 Publisher: Tielt Lannoo

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Op reis met Pieter BruegelPieter Bruegel (1525/1530-1569) was een van de meest vernieuwende kunstenaars van de 16de eeuw. Hoewel hij vooral herinnerd wordt als een aandachtig observator van boerentaferelen, was Bruegel zoveel meer. Tekenaar, graficus, verteller, humorist, en een man die ons vaak een spiegel voorhoudt.Die veelzijdigheid dankt de Vlaamse meester onder andere aan de indrukken die hij opdeed op de verschillende plekken waar hij verbleef. Hij woonde en werkte in de metropolen Antwerpen en Brussel en in het belangrijke kunstcentrum Mechelen. Hij was ook een van de eerste Vlaamse schilders die door heel Italië reisde tot in Sicilië.In De Grote Bruegel Atlas reis je in het spoor van Pieter Bruegel naar al deze plaatsen die hem gemaakt hebben tot de invloedrijke schilder die hij was. Dankzij het vele oude en nieuwe kaartmateriaal en inspirerende routes kun je zijn levensweg zelf mee volgen.https://www.lannoo.be/nl/de-grote-bruegel-atlas


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Mappa mundi : contemporary cartographies
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ISBN: 9782931001004 Year: 2020 Publisher: Bruxelles Fondation Boghossian

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De grote Van Eyck atlas
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ISBN: 9789401445887 9401445885 Year: 2020 Volume: deel 3 Publisher: Tielt Lannoo

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Het belang van Jan Van Eyck voor de kunst in de 15de eeuw en daarna kan niet overschat worden. Met zijn oog voor detail en technische onderlegdheid zet hij een standaard die nooit geëvenaard zal worden. Dankzij dat uitzonderlijke talent komt de meester algauw in de gunst van vorsten en mecenassen. Over het levenspad van Jan Van Eyck is niet veel bekend, maar dat hij veel onderweg is, staat buiten kijf. De schilder woont en werkt in het bruisende Brugge. Hij verblijft ook in Den Haag, Rijsel, Doornik en Gent. In opdracht van de Bourgondische hertog Filips de Goede reist hij mogelijk naar het Heilig Land en gaat hij in Portugal de toekomstige echtgenote van Filips portretteren. De twintig schilderijen die Jan Van Eyck nalaat, zijn evenveel puzzelstukken waarmee 'De Grote Van Eyck Atlas' dat nomadische bestaan van de Vlaamse meester wil reconstrueren. In het spoor van Jan Van Eyck voeren verrassende wandelroutes je zo naar zijn 15de-eeuwse wereld. 'De Grote Van Eyck Atlas' is rijkelijk geïllustreerd met foto's en kunstreproducties.


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Islamic maps
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ISBN: 9781851244928 1851244921 Year: 2020 Publisher: Oxford : Bodleian Library,

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Spanning the Islamic world, from ninth-century Baghdad to nineteenth-century Iran, this book tells the story of the key Muslim map-makers and the art of Islamic cartography. Muslims were uniquely placed to explore the edges of the inhabited world and their maps stretched from Isfahan to Palermo, from Istanbul to Cairo and Aden. Over a similar period, Muslim artists developed distinctive styles, often based on geometrical patterns and calligraphy. Map-makers, including al-Khwarazmi and al-Idrisi, combined novel cartographical techniques with art, science and geographical knowledge. The results could be aesthetically stunning and mathematically sophisticated, politically charged as well as a celebration of human diversity. 0'Islamic Maps' examines Islamic visual interpretations of the world in their historical context, through the lives of the map-makers themselves. What was the purpose of their maps, what choices did they make and what was the argument they were trying to convey? Lavishly illustrated with stunning manuscripts, beautiful instruments and Qibla charts, this book shows how maps constructed by Muslim map-makers capture the many dimensions of Islamic civilisation, providing a window into the worldviews of Islamic societies.


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Historical sea charts : visions and voyages through the ages
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ISBN: 9788854417168 8854417165 Year: 2020 Publisher: Milan White Star Publishers

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This book shows the history of charts and nautical maps from the earliest known examples to the ones used in the Twentieth Century, with a special focus on the map makers and the methods of use from 1300 to 1900. As with many historical objects, nautical charts are admired today for their charm and aesthetic appeal. The maps in Historical Sea Charts are part of the collection owned by Barry Lawrence Ruderman Antique Maps Inc., the world's leading institution for nautical maps. The reader can find in this book the most indicative of trends and ideas through time. For each example in the volume, the reader will find out how the maps were designed and created, as well as how they were used during navigation or in preparation of a journey.

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