Bodies and Maps
Early Modern Personifications of the Continents
Published on 10. December 2020
Book
Hardback
436 pages
978-90-04-38790-4 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 239 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 29 mm
Weight
936 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-38790-4 (9789004387904)
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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).
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).
Content
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
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