Sea Monsters on Medieval and Renaissance Maps - Rilegato

Van Duzer, Chet

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ISBN 10: 0712358900 ISBN 13: 9780712358903

Casa editrice: British Library Board, 2013

Riassunto

From dragons and serpents to many-armed beasts that preyed on ships and sailors alike, sea monsters have terrified mariners across all ages and cultures and have become the subject of many tall tales from the sea. Accounts of these creatures have also inspired cartographers and mapmakers, many of whom began decorating their maps with them to indicate unexplored areas or areas about which little was known. Whether swimming vigorously, gamboling amid the waves, attacking ships, or simply displaying themselves for our appreciation, the sea monsters that appear on medieval and Renaissance maps are fascinating and visually engaging. Yet despite their appeal, these monsters have never received the scholarly attention that they deserve.In Sea Monsters on Medieval and Renaissance Maps, Chet Van Duzer analyzes the most important examples of sea monsters on medieval and Renaissance maps produced in Europe. Van Duzer begins with the earliestmappaemundi on which these monsters appear in the tenth century and continues to the end of the sixteenth century and, along the way, sheds important light on the sources, influences, and methods of the cartographers who drew or painted them.A beautifully designed visual reference work, Sea Monsters on Medieval and Renaissance Maps will be important not only in the history of cartography, art, and zoological illustration, but also in the history of the geography of the “marvelous” and of Western conceptions of the ocean.

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[An] authoritative, wide-ranging study ... sumptuously produced --Marina Warner, New York Review of Books

A truly charming book, and one that will turbocharge the imagination of anyone staring over the side of a boat at a bunch of waves that could hide just about anything. --Marine Quarterly

Those aquatic behemoths and their origins are collected in cartographical guru Chet Van Duzer's wonderful new book, Sea Monsters on Medieval and Renaissance Maps, an in-depth dissection of ancient maps and sea beasts from days past. --out.com

A very likeable book, balancing extensive scholarship alongside lavish but pertinent illustrations... A generously illustrated book that should charm many readers, from the young to anyone who likes monsters, but it is also of interest and relevance to historians and other lovers of cartography. --Journal of The Australian and New Zealand Map Society

Those aquatic behemoths and their origins are collected in cartographical guru Chet Van Duzer's wonderful new book, Sea Monsters on Medieval and Renaissance Maps, an in-depth dissection of ancient maps and sea beasts from days past. --out.com

L'autore:

Chet Van Duzer is an Invited Research Scholar at the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.

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• Editore: British Library Board
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0712358900
• ISBN 13: 9780712358903
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 143