Fra Mauro's Mappa Mundi. A Brief History
Author | : Piero Falchetta |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9788885587120 |
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Author | : Piero Falchetta |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9788885587120 |
Author | : Angelo Cattaneo |
Publisher | : Brepols Pub |
Total Pages | : 444 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9782503523781 |
Fra Mauro's mappamundi, drawn around 1450 in the monastery of San Michele on Murano in the lagoon of Venice, is among the most relevant compendia of knowledge of the Earth and the Cosmos of the fifteenth century. By examining literary, visual, textual and archival evidences, some long considered lost, this book places the map within the larger context of Venetian culture in the fifteenth century. It provides a detailed analysis of both its main sources (auctores veteres such as Pliny, Solinus, Ptolemy, and novi, like Albert the Great, Thomas Aquinas, Marco Polo and Niccolo de' Conti) as well as of the composite networks of contemporary knowledge (scholasticism, humanism, monastic culture, as well as more technical skills such as marine cartography and mercantile practices), investigating the way they combine in the epistemological unity of the imago mundi. More a work on intellectual history than cartography, the book constructs a complex set of frameworks within which to situate Fra Mauro's monumental effort. These range from the cultural history of the reception of the world map from the fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries to the analysis of the material conditions under which map-makers such as Fra Mauro worked; from the history of ideas, especially of natural philosophy to the links between world representations and travel literature. It also addresses the Venetian reception of Ptolemy's Geography, the interactions between Venetian art, theology and cosmography and the complexities of the Venetian vernacular. The book develops a multi-tiered approach, in which different elements of the rich cultural context in which this world map was created, interact with each other, each casting a new light on the encyclopaedic work being analyzed.
Author | : Piero Falchetta |
Publisher | : Brepols Publishers |
Total Pages | : 840 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Accompanying CD-ROM contains: digital reproduction of Fra Mauro's world map with the ability to navigate within the map and extract information from it.
Author | : Gabriel Alington |
Publisher | : Gracewing Publishing |
Total Pages | : 56 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Cartography |
ISBN | : 9780852443552 |
Author | : |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 247 |
Release | : 2021-06-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004446036 |
Cartography between Christian Europe and the Arabic-Islamic World offers a timely assessment of interaction between medieval Christian European and Arabic-Islamic geographical thought, making the case for significant but limited cultural transfer across a range of map genres.
Author | : Evelyn Edson |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 446 |
Release | : 2007-07-15 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1421404303 |
A history of the development of world maps during the later medieval period in the centuries leading up to Columbus’s journey. In the two centuries before Columbus, mapmaking was transformed. The World Map, 1300–1492 investigates this important, transitional period of mapmaking. Beginning with a 1436 atlas of ten maps produced by Venetian Andrea Bianco, Evelyn Edson uses maps of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries to examine how the discoveries of missionaries and merchants affected the content and configuration of world maps. She finds that both the makers and users of maps struggled with changes brought about by technological innovation?the compass, quadrant, and astrolabe?rediscovery of classical mapmaking approaches, and increased travel. To reconcile the tensions between the conservative and progressive worldviews, mapmakers used a careful blend of the old and the new to depict a world that was changing?and growing?before their eyes. This engaging and informative study reveals how the ingenuity, creativity, and adaptability of these craftsmen helped pave the way for an age of discovery. “A comprehensive and complex picture of the changing face of medieval geography. With the mastery of a formidable palette of historiographic knowledge and well-reasoned discussions of the sources, The World Map, 1300–1492 will certainly remain an important work to consult for both medieval and early modern scholars for many years to come.” —Ian J. Aebel, Terrae Incognitae
Author | : James Cowan |
Publisher | : Shambhala Publications |
Total Pages | : 177 |
Release | : 2007-12-18 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1590305205 |
In sixteenth-century Venice, in an island monastery, a cloistered monk experiences the adventure of a lifetime—all within the confines of his cell. Part historical fiction, part philosophical mystery, A Mapmaker's Dream tells the story of Fra Mauro and his struggle to realize his life's work: to make a perfect map—one that represents the full breadth of Creation. News of Mauro's projects attracts explorers, pilgrims, travelers, and merchants, all eager to contribute their accounts of faraway people and places. As he listens to the tales of the strange and fantastic things they've seen, Mauro comes to regard the world as much more than continents and kingdoms: that it is also made up of a vast and equally real interior landscape of beliefs, aspirations, and dreams. Mauro's map grows and takes shape, becoming both more complete and incomprehensible. In the process, the boundaries of Mauro's world are pushed to the extreme, raising questions about the relationship between representation, imagination, and the nature of reality itself.
Author | : Ronnie Ferguson |
Publisher | : Legenda |
Total Pages | : 434 |
Release | : 2021-07-19 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781781886380 |
Carved on stone, painted on canvas, wood or porcelain, stitched on fabric, written on parchment or printed on paper, the 109 inscriptions in this unique collection preserve the surviving public writing of Venice's individuals and collectivities in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. They celebrate the completion, authorship or sponsorship of buildings, sculptures, paintings, reliquaries and shrines. They caption the splendid mappa mundi of Fra Mauro and Jacopo de' Barbari's iconic view of Venice. They declare the ownership of a processional banner, of the recipient of a maiolica plate, and of neighbourhood association properties. They record wills, indulgences and appeals. They mark the graves of confraternities, a barber-surgeon and a master mason. They can be found from Piazza San Marco to the corners of Cannaregio and Castello as well as on the lagoon islands. Written in the vernacular, their weight of presence, unmatched by any other Italian centre, attests to the city's exceptional literacy in our period and provides a wealth of privileged historical information. The corpus, with accompanying photographic record, is the first of its kind. It is thoroughly contextualized and analysed in terms of historical and artistic background, script and language.
Author | : Italo Zannier |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Photography |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Peter Barber |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Cartography |
ISBN | : 9780712350921 |
Published on the occasion of the exhibition at the British Library, London, April 30-Sept. 19, 2010.