Part One: Maps as Worldly Art

Fiorani, Francesca

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Part One: Maps as Worldly Art

Francesca Fiorani

The Marvel of Maps: Art, Cartography and Politics in Renaissance Italy

Part One

Author

Francesca Fiorani

PublisherYale University Press

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00316.2

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-22612

Part One: Maps as Worldly Art

2. The Guardaroba Nuova

3. “The Cosmos is Cosimo’s Ornament”

4. The Ordering of Maps

5. The Mapping of the Modern World

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BOOKThe Marvel of Maps: Art, Cartography and Politics in Renaissance Italy

Francesca Fiorani

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00316

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-22608

Among the most beautiful and compelling works of Renaissance art, painted maps adorned the halls and galleries of princely palaces. This book is the first to discuss in detail the three-dimensional display of these painted map cycles and their full meaning in Renaissance culture.

Art historian Francesca Fiorani focuses on two of the most significant and marvelous surviving Italian map murals—the Guardaroba Nuova of the Palazzo Vecchio, Florence, commissioned by Duke Cosimo de’ Medici, and the Gallery of Maps in the Vatican, commissioned by Pope Gregory XIII. Both cycles were not only pioneering cartographic enterprises but also powerful political and religious images. Presenting an original interpretation of the interaction between art, science, politics, and religion in Renaissance culture, the book also offers fresh insights into the Medici and papal courts.

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Author

Francesca Fiorani

PublisherYale University Press

Print publication date June 2005 (out of print)

Print ISBN 9780300107272

EISBN 9780300270464

Illustrations 162

Print Status out of print

Publisher (out of print)

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