Ressources numériques en sciences humaines et sociales OpenEdition Nos plateformes OpenEdition Books OpenEdition Journals Hypothèses Calenda Bibliothèques OpenEdition Freemium Suivez-nous

Étiqueté : cartographie

Exposition: “Cartes imaginaires. Inventer des mondes”, Paris, BNF du 24 mars au 19 juillet 2026

Cette exposition invite les visiteurs à un voyage aux frontières du réel et de la fiction, à la découverte des liens entre cartographie et imaginaire. Car si les cartes tracent d’ordinaire les contours de terres connues, elles donnent également forme à des territoires imaginaires qui prolongent, interprètent ou personnalisent le monde réel. Passant du paradis terrestre à l’Atlantide, de l’Eldorado au monde de Narnia et des territoires de Game of Thrones à ceux de Final Fantasy,...

Parution : Camille Serchuk, “Lies of the Land. Painted Maps in Late Medieval and Early Modern France”, University Park, Penn State University Press, 2024

An illuminating study of the unique trajectory of map-painting in sixteenth-century France. Lies of the Land examines the often-overlooked artistic roots of mapmaking practice in early modern France, offering an original perspective on discourses of accuracy and their relationship to the pictorial origins of modern mapmaking. Until the seventeenth century, most mapmakers in France were painters. Schooled in techniques of drawing and perspective—and in the careful study of nature that we associate with early modernity—they also...

Parution : « Pour une histoire des cartes locales en Europe au Moyen Âge et à la Renaissance », Le Passage, 2022

Une étude comparée des cartes locales en Europe au Moyen Âge et à la Renaissance à travers un ensemble de textes rédigés par les meilleurs spécialistes du sujet. Résumé : L’ouvrage est le fruit de travaux présentés à l’occasion de l’exposition « Quand les artistes dessinaient les cartes. Vues et figures de l’espace français, Moyen Âge et Renaissance » (Archives nationales, 2019), qui montrait, pour la première fois, l’ampleur du corpus des cartes locales produites en...

Appel à contribution : Representing Islands and Water in Early Modern Cartography, RSA, Dublin 2022, date limite le 13 août 2021

The Mediterranean islands have occupied, at least since antiquity, a central position within the political and economic imperatives of numerous civilizations. These military powers will establish various forms of maritime control over the Mediterranean space. From the Minoans to the Genoese and Venetian Thalassocracies, as well as the Ottoman Empire, the Mediterranean Sea became the scene of countless battles for control of its islands and surrounding waters (even still today). When thought as a separate...

Conférence en ligne : What Is a Map? The Case of Fra Mauro’s Mappamundi, Londres, The Warburg Institute, le 27 mai 2021, à 17h00

Dr Angelo Cattaneo (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Rome): ‘What Is a Map? The Case of Fra Mauro’s Mappamundi: Author’s Intentions, Modern Receptions’ Lectures in the history of cartography convened by Catherine Delano-Smith (Institute of Historical Research), Tony Campbell (formerly Map Library, British Library), Peter Barber (Visiting Fellow, History, King’s College, formerly Map Library, British Library) and Alessandro Scafi (Warburg Institute). Meetings in London, when these are physically possible, are generously supported by the Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association....

Appel à contribution : Cities in Dante’s Time, date limite le 28 février 2021

Cities in Dante’s time. Urban and territorial transformations between the 13th and 14th centuries Editorial Series: Studies on the Middle Ages. architecture, art, archaeology, urban transformations, historiography Curator: Damiano Iacobone The celebrations for the 700th anniversary of the death of Dante Alighieri constitute an opportunity to evaluate the urban and territorial transformations that took place between the second half of the 13th and the first half of the 14th century. The contributions can refer both to...

Appel à contribution : « Dominion of the Sacred. Image, Cartography, Knowledge of the City after the Council of Trent », date limite le 1er octobre 2020

Argument Between the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the Italian political geography was polarized by a number of cities of different sizes and traditions: Rome and Florence, Milan and Naples, Genoa and Venice, Turin and Modena, either ancient republics or new dynastic capitals, satellites of the great European monarchies or small Signorias. The conjunction — less frequently the conflict — between the mandates of the Council of Trent and the interests of the ruling élites of...

Conférence : « Maps and Society. Cornelis de Hooghe (1541–1583). Emperor’s son and cartographer », Londres, The Warburg Institute, 30 avril 2020

Dr Jacob Gestman Geradts (Early Modern History, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium): Cornelis de Hooghe (1541–1583): Emperor’s Son and Cartographer Lectures in the history of cartography convened by Catherine Delano-Smith (Institute of Historical Research, University of London), Tony Campbell (formerly Map Library, British Library), Peter Barber (Visiting Fellow, History, King’s College, formerly Map Library, British Library) and Alessandro Scafi (Warburg Institute). Meetings are usually held at the Warburg Institute, School of Advanced Study, University of...

Exposition : « Quand les artistes dessinaient les cartes », Paris, Archives nationales, du 25 septembre 2019 au 6 janvier 2020

L’exposition « Quand les artistes dessinaient les cartes. Vues et figures de l’espace français, Moyen Âge et Renaissance » met en valeur le corpus méconnu des « vues figurées » qui apparaissent au tournant du Moyen Âge et de l’époque moderne (XIVe-XVIe siècle). Il s’agit de représentations de territoires de dimension restreinte (terroir, ville, seigneurie, petit comté), qui montrent les lieux comme si le spectateur les avait sous les yeux. Le dessin vise alors à identifier...

Conférence : Stefaan Missinne, “Il Mappamondo di Leonardo da Vinci del 1504”, Florence, Université de Florence, 21 novembre 2019, 17h

Professor Stefaan Missinne received his PhD from the Economics University in Vienna in 1990. He is Laureate of the Prince Albert Foundation and Managing Director of the Ginkgo GmbH. As a collector of antique maps, globes, old paintings and art chamber objects, he was a scholar of the Viennese art expert, Count Eugen von Philippovich. He is a member of the International Map Collectors’ Society, the Washington Map Society, the International Coronelli Society for Research...