Bodies and Maps

Early Modern Personifications of the Continents

Maryanne Cline Horowitz, Louise Arizzoli (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

436 Seiten

2020
Brill (Verlag)
9789004387904 (ISBN)

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An exploration of the ways early modern European artists have visualized continents through the female (sometimes male) body to express their perceptions of newly encountered peoples. Often stereotypical, these personifications are however more complex than what they seem.

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 print, painting, ceramics, tapestry, and sculpture, do portrayals vary between hierarchy and global human dignity? Are we witnessing the emergence of ethnography or of racism? Yet, as this volume shows, depictions of bodies as places betray the complexity of human claims and desires. Bodies and Maps: Early Modern Personifications of the Continents opens up questions about early modern politics, travel literature, sexualities, gender, processes of making, and the mobility of forms and motifs.

Contributors are: Louise Arizzoli, Elisa Daniele, Hilary Haakenson, Elizabeth Horodowich, Maryanne Cline Horowitz, Ann Rosalind Jones, Paul H. D. Kaplan, Marion Romberg, Mark Rosen, Benjamin Schmidt, Chet Van Duzer, Bronwen Wilson, and Michael Wintle.

Maryanne Cline Horowitz, Ph.D. (1970), is Professor of History, Occidental College, and Associate, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, University of California, Los Angeles. She won the Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural History of the American Philosophical Society for her Seeds of Virtue and Knowledge (Princeton, 1998), and served as Editor-in-Chief of the New Dictionary of the History of Ideas (Charles Scribner's Sons, 2005). Louise Arizzoli, Ph.D. (2013) is an Instructional Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Mississippi. She has published on the iconography of the Four Continents in the arts and on the history of collections and the art market, including “James Hazen Hyde and the Allegory of the Four Continents: A Research Collection for an Amateur Art Historian” (The Journal for the History of Collections, 2013).

Acknowledgements

List of Illustrations

Notes on the Editors

Notes on the Contributors

1 Introduction (1): Rival Interpretations of Continent Personifications

Maryanne Cline Horowitz

2 Introduction (2): Allegories of the Four Continents Today: Assessing Contemporary Contributions

Louise Arizzoli

Part 1: Personifications of the Continents and Issues of Race and Gender

3 Gender and Race in the Personification of the Continents in the Early Modern Period: Building Eurocentrism

Michael Wintle

4 Exotic Female (and Male) Continents: Early Modern Fourfold Division of Humanity

Maryanne Cline Horowitz

Part 2: Cartographical Origins of Early Continent Personification

5 The Pre-History of the Personification of Continents on Maps: Earth, Ocean, and the Sons of Noah

Chet Van Duzer

6 Magi, Winds, Continents: Dark Skin and Global Allegory in Early Modern Images

Paul H.D. Kaplan

Part 3: Personifications of the World in Italian Frescoes

7 Casting the Continents: Sacred History and Spiritual Odyssey in the Camposanto of Pisa

Hilary Anne Haakenson

8 Portraits of the World – The Four Continents at Palazzo Farnese in Caprarola: The Figurative Code, Sources and Comparisons

Elisa Antonietta Daniele

Part 4: Continent Personifications in Maps and Book Illustration

9 Why were there no Continental Allegories in Renaissance Venice? The Amerasian Personifications of Giuseppe Rosaccio

Elizabeth Horodowich

10 Worlds Apart: The Four Continents and the Civitates Orbis Terrarum

Mark Rosen

11 When Allegory Met History: Allegories of the Continents on Costume-Book Title Pages in the Late Sixteenth Century

Ann Rosalind Jones

Part 5: Popularization of Continent Personifications in the Eighteenth Century

12 The Visible Church – The Discourse on an Ecclesia Triumphans and the Four Continents in Parish Churches of Baroque Southern Germany

Marion Romberg

13 The Rearing Horse and the Kneeling Camel: Continental Ceramics and Europe’s Race to Modernity

Benjamin Schmidt

14 Collecting the Four Continents: James Hazen Hyde (1876–1959), an American in Paris

Louise Arizzoli

15 Afterword: Ornament and the Fabrication of Early Modern Worlds

Bronwen Wilson

Index Nominum

Erscheinungsdatum	15.01.2021
Reihe/Serie	Intersections ; 73
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	929 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Hilfswissenschaften
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
ISBN-13	9789004387904 / 9789004387904
Zustand	Neuware