Bodies and maps : early modern personifications of the continents /

"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 p...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	Bodies and Maps: Personification of the Continents (Conference) University of California, Los Angeles)
Other Authors:	Horowitz, Maryanne Cline, 1945- (Editor), Arizzoli, Louise (Editor)
Format:	Conference Proceeding Book
Language:	English
Published:	Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2020.
Series:	Intersections, volume 73
Subjects:	Personification in art > Congresses. Continents in art > Congresses. Continents in art. Personification in art. Conference papers and proceedings.

Table of Contents:

Personifications of the continents and issues of race and gender
Cartographical origins of early continent personification
Personifications of the world in Italian frescoes
Continent personifications in maps and book illustration
Popularization of continent personifications in the eighteenth century.