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Sea Monsters on Medieval and Renaissance Maps

Art / Photobook
By: Chet van Duzer(Author)
144 pages, 115 colour photos and illustrations
Publisher: British Library
Sea Monsters on Medieval and Renaissance Maps
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  • Sea Monsters on Medieval and Renaissance Maps ISBN: 9780712357715 Paperback Sep 2014 Not in stock: Usually dispatched within 1-2 weeks
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The sea monsters on medieval and Renaissance maps, whether swimming vigorously, gambolling amid the waves, attacking ships, or simply displaying themselves for our appreciation, are one of the most visually engaging elements on these maps, and yet they have never been carefully studied. The subject is important not only in the history of cartography, art, and zoological illustration, but also in the history of the geography of the 'marvellous' and of western conceptions of the ocean. Moreover, the sea monsters depicted on maps can supply important insights into the sources, influences, and methods of the cartographers who drew or painted them. In this highly-illustrated book the author analyzes the most important examples of sea monsters on medieval and Renaissance maps produced in Europe, beginning with the earliest mappaemundi on which they appear in the tenth century and continuing to the end of the sixteenth century.

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Chet Van Duzer is a Kislak Fellow at the Library of Congress. He is the author of Johann Schoner's Globe of 1515: Transcription and Study (2010) and co-author with John Hessler of Seeing the World Anew: The Radical Vision of Martin Waldseemuller's 1507 & 1516 World Maps, (forthcoming).