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Book SynopsisSince 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 or of racism? Yet, as this volume shows, depictions of bodies as places betray the complexity of human claims and desires. Bodies and Maps: Early Modern Personifications of the Continents opens up questions about early modern politics, travel literature, sexualities, gender, processes of making, and the mobility of forms and motifs. Contributors are: Louise Arizzoli, Elisa Daniele, Hilary Haakenson, Elizabeth Horodowich, Maryanne Cline Horowitz, Ann Rosalind Jones, Paul H. D. Kaplan, Marion Romberg, Mark Rosen, Benjamin Schmidt, Chet Van Duzer, Bronwen Wilson, and Michael Wintle.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations Notes on the Editors Notes on the Contributors 1 Introduction (1): Rival Interpretations of Continent Personifications Maryanne Cline Horowitz 2 Introduction (2): Allegories of the Four Continents Today: Assessing Contemporary Contributions Louise Arizzoli Part 1: Personifications of the Continents and Issues of Race and Gender 3 Gender and Race in the Personification of the Continents in the Early Modern Period: Building Eurocentrism Michael Wintle 4 Exotic Female (and Male) Continents: Early Modern Fourfold Division of Humanity Maryanne Cline Horowitz Part 2: Cartographical Origins of Early Continent Personification 5 The Pre-History of the Personification of Continents on Maps: Earth, Ocean, and the Sons of Noah Chet Van Duzer 6 Magi, Winds, Continents: Dark Skin and Global Allegory in Early Modern Images Paul H.D. Kaplan Part 3: Personifications of the World in Italian Frescoes 7 Casting the Continents: Sacred History and Spiritual Odyssey in the Camposanto of Pisa Hilary Anne Haakenson 8 Portraits of the World – The Four Continents at Palazzo Farnese in Caprarola: The Figurative Code, Sources and Comparisons Elisa Antonietta Daniele Part 4: Continent Personifications in Maps and Book Illustration 9 Why were there no Continental Allegories in Renaissance Venice? The Amerasian Personifications of Giuseppe Rosaccio Elizabeth Horodowich 10 Worlds Apart: The Four Continents and the Civitates Orbis Terrarum Mark Rosen 11 When Allegory Met History: Allegories of the Continents on Costume-Book Title Pages in the Late Sixteenth Century Ann Rosalind Jones Part 5: Popularization of Continent Personifications in the Eighteenth Century 12 The Visible Church – The Discourse on an Ecclesia Triumphans and the Four Continents in Parish Churches of Baroque Southern Germany Marion Romberg 13 The Rearing Horse and the Kneeling Camel: Continental Ceramics and Europe’s Race to Modernity Benjamin Schmidt 14 Collecting the Four Continents: James Hazen Hyde (1876–1959), an American in Paris Louise Arizzoli 15 Afterword: Ornament and the Fabrication of Early Modern Worlds Bronwen Wilson Index Nominum
