Bodies and Maps: Early Modern Personifications of the Continents

by Louise Arizzoli and Maryanne Cline Horowitz

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 print, painting, ceramics, tapestry, and sculpture, do portrayals vary between hierarchy and global human dignity? Are we witnessing the emergence of ethnography...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004387900
• ISBN13: 9789004387904
• Release Date: December 2020
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 436 Pages
• Weight: 2.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.3"