The Mapping of Power in Renaissance Italy: Painted Cartographic Cycles in Social and Intellectual Context

by Mark Rosen

How did maps of the distant reaches of the world communicate to the public in an era when exploration of those territories was still ongoing and knowledge about them remained incomplete? And why did Renaissance rulers frequently commission large-scale painted maps of those territories when they knew that they would soon be proven obsolete by newer, more accurate information? The Mapping of Power in Renaissance Italy addresses these questions by bridging...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107067030
• ISBN13: 9781107067035
• Release Date: November 2014
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 318 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.9" x 10.0"