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Illustration Credits

Daniela Bleichmar

Visual Voyages: Images of Latin American Nature from Columbus to Darwin

Illustration Credits

Author

Daniela Bleichmar

PublisherYale University Press

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-21543

Illustration Credits

Courtesy of Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros: figs. 145, 146, 149, 150

Photo: Peter Danstrøm, National Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen: figs. 67, 68

Photo courtesy of the Denver Art Museum: figs. 121, 122

Photography courtesy of The Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens: figs. 2–7, 14–16, 23, 25–40, 43–45, 47, 48, 51–53, 60, 73, 80, 82, 134, 137–41, 143, 144, 147, 152

Reproduced by permission of the Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia, Mexico City: fig. 18

Photo: John Lee, National Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen: figs. 61–66, 69–71

Reproduced with permission of MiBACT. Further reproduction by any means is prohibited: figs. 19, 20

Museo de América, Madrid: figs. 124–29

Reproduction authorized by the Museo Nacional de Arte, INBA, Mexico, 2016: fig. 151, 153

Photo courtesy of the Newberry Library, Chicago: figs. 42, 46, 54, 148

The Pierpont Morgan Library, New York: fig. 17

Photo credit: Princeton University Art Museum / Art Resource, NY: fig. 136

Royal Collection Trust / © Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2017: figs. 24, 41, 59, 74, 75

With permission of the University Library of Bologna: figs. 11, 12

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BOOKVisual Voyages: Images of Latin American Nature from Columbus to Darwin

Daniela Bleichmar

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00268

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-21532

From the voyages of Christopher Columbus to those of Alexander von Humboldt and Charles Darwin, the depiction of the natural world played a central role in shaping how people on both sides of the Atlantic understood and imaged the region we now know as Latin America. Nature provided incentives for exploration, commodities for trade, specimens for scientific investigation, and manifestations of divine forces. It also yielded a rich trove of representations, created both by natives to the region and visitors, which are the subject of this fascinating book. Author Daniela Bleichmar shows that these images were not only works of art but also instruments for the production of knowledge, with scientific, social, and political repercussions. Early depictions of Latin American nature introduced European audiences to native medicines and religious practices. By the 17th century, revelatory accounts of tobacco, chocolate, and cochineal reshaped science, trade, and empire around the globe. In the 18th and 19th centuries, collections and scientific expeditions produced both patriotic and imperial visions of Latin America.

Through an interdisciplinary examination of more than 150 maps, illustrated manuscripts, still lifes, and landscape paintings spanning four hundred years, Visual Voyages establishes Latin America as a critical site for scientific and artistic exploration, affirming that region’s transformation and the transformation of Europe as vitally connected histories.

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Daniela Bleichmar

PublisherYale University Press

Print publication date October 2017 (in print)

Print ISBN 9780300224023

EISBN 9780300264197

Illustrations 154

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