{"product_id":"bodies-and-maps-early-modern-personifications-of-the-continents-9789004387904","title":"Bodies and Maps: Early Modern Personifications of the Continents","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSince 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements  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","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210764968279,"sku":"9789004387904","price":152.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/bodies-and-maps-early-modern-personifications-of-the-continents-9789004387904","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}