Title Bodies and Maps Early Modern Personifications of the Continents

Published Boston : BRILL, 2020

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Description 1 online resource (435 p.) Series Intersections Ser Intersections Ser Contents Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Illustrations -- Notes on the Editors -- Notes on the Contributors -- Chapter 1 Introduction (1): Rival Interpretations of Continent Personifications -- Chapter 2 Introduction (2): Allegories of the Four Continents Today: Assessing Contemporary Contributions -- Part 1 Personifications of the Continents and Issues of Race and Gender -- Chapter 3 Gender and Race in the Personification of the Continents in the Early Modern Period: Building Eurocentrism -- Chapter 4 Exotic Female (and Male) Continents: Early Modern Fourfold Division of Humanity PART 2 Cartographical Origins of Early Continent Personification -- Chapter 5 The Pre-History of the Personification of Continents on Maps: Earth, Ocean, and the Sons of Noah -- Chapter 6 Magi, Winds, Continents: Dark Skin and Global Allegory in Early Modern Images -- Part 3 Personifications of the World in Italian Frescoes -- Chapter 7 Casting the Continents: Sacred History and Spiritual Odyssey in the Camposanto of Pisa -- Chapter 8 Portraits of the World -- The Four Continents at Palazzo Farnese in Caprarola: The Figurative Code, Sources and Comparisons Part 4 Continent Personifications in Maps and Book Illustration -- Chapter 9 Why were there no Continental Allegories in Renaissance Venice? The Amerasian Personifications of Giuseppe Rosaccio -- Chapter 10 Worlds Apart: The Four Continents and the Civitates Orbis Terrarum -- Chapter 11 When Allegory Met History: Allegories of the Continents on Costume-Book Title Pages in the Late Sixteenth Century -- Part 5 Popularization of Continent Personifications in the Eighteenth Century Chapter 12 The Visible Church. The Discourse on an Ecclesia Triumphans and the Four Continents in Parish Churches of Baroque Southern Germany -- Chapter 13 The Rearing Horse and the Kneeling Camel: Continental Ceramics and Europe's Race to Modernity -- Chapter 14 Collecting the Four Continents: James Hazen Hyde (1876-1959), an American in Paris -- Chapter 15 Afterword: Ornament and the Fabrication of Early Modern Worlds -- Index Nominum Notes Description based upon print version of record Subject Personification in art -- Congresses Continents in art -- Congresses Continents in art Personification in art Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings Form Electronic book Author Arizzoli, Louise ISBN 9789004438033 9004438033

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