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The mapping of power in Renaissance Italy : painted cartographic cycles in social and intellectual context /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rosen, Mark, Ph.D
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Subjects:
Early maps > Political aspects > Italy.
Cartography > Italy > History > 16th century.
Italy > Intellectual life > 1559-1789.
Italy > Politics and government > 1559-1789.
Italy > Intellectual life > 1268-1559.
Italy > Politics and government > 1268-1559.
Renaissance > Italy.
Table of Contents:
  • A lost world: maps as decoration before the sixteenth century
  • Wonders unknown to the ancients: maps as decoration in the early-mid sixteenth century
  • The Medici Guardaroba and its role in the Florentine cosmos
  • "All the things of heaven and earth together": the Guardaroba Program
  • Manufacturing a universe: the Medici Guardaroba and its cosmographers
  • The maps of the Medici Guardaroba
  • The Guardaroba and the late cinquecento map-cycle competition.