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Étiqueté : histoire de la cartographie

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 : Mapping Worlds: Medieval to Modern, Londres, The Warburg Institute, le 12 avril à 15h

Alessandro Scafi (Senior Lecturer in Medieval and Renaissance Cultural History) The aim of this course is to explore how maps have served to order and represent physical, social and imaginative worlds from around 1200 to 1700. The focus is on the iconographic character of maps and the complex relation between art and science that is found in mapmaking throughout history. The students will be introduced to a wide range of images from different time periods...

Conférence : Elli Doulkaridou, “The Battista Agnese Atlas of the John Carter Brown Library. Preliminary remarks on its decorative system”. En ligne, 20 janvier 2021, 21h (Paris)

Abstract About eighty manuscript atlases made by the prolific sixteenth-century Italian cartographer Battista Agnese survive. However, none of these manuscripts carries such an extensive decorative program as the John Carter Brown Library’s example. Probably destined as a gift to Philip II of Spain, the Atlas’ borders weave a subtle discourse. Enveloping the known and discovered new worlds in ornate frames, the Atlas encourages a global, geopolitical, and aesthetic perspective on Charles V’s son and heir....