Lies of the land : painted maps in late medieval and early modern France
Camille Serchuk
Bok · Engelsk · 2025
| Omfang | XV, 218 sider : illkustrasjoner, kart
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| Opplysninger | Introduction : getting the lie of the land -- Sight maps/site maps : painters and local mapping -- The world as (luxury) object : Norman maps and atlases -- Palace décor(um) : the Galerie des cerfs at Fontainebleau -- Conclusion : eyeing the horizon.. - "Explores how late medieval and early modern French painters pioneered a highly pictorial standard for cartography that was imbued with legibility and authority by drawing on their training to bring empirically observed detail, perspective, composition, and scale to their maps"--
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| ISBN | 9780271097732
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