Author: Tine Luk Meganck Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9004342486 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 346
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This book is also available in Paperback Erudite Eyes explores the network of the Antwerp cartographer Abraham Ortelius (1527-1598), a veritable trading zone of art and erudition. Populated by such luminaries as Pieter Bruegel, Joris Hoefnagel, Justus Lipsius and Benedictus Arias Montanus, among others, this vibrant antiquarian culture yielded new knowledge about local antiquities and distant civilizations, and offered a framework for articulating art and artistic practice. These fruitful exchanges, undertaken in a spirit of friendship and collaboration, are all the more astonishing when seen against the backdrop of the ongoing wars. Based on a close reading of early modern letters, alba amicorum, printed books, manuscripts and artworks, this book situates Netherlandish art and culture between Bruegel and Rubens in a European perspective.
Author: M. P. R. van den Broecke Publisher: ISBN: 9789061943808 Category : Atlases Languages : en Pages : 0
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This revised edition contains corrections, extra information to date the charts more correctly, descriptions of the title page and a portrait of Ortelius.
Author: M. P. R. van den Broecke Publisher: Brill ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 446
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With an introduction by Leon Voet, and with 20 contributions by Günter Schilder, Rodney Shirley, Dennis Reinhartz, H.A.M. van der Heijden, Marijke Spies and others.
Author: Steven Johnson Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 9781594489259 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 332
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"It is the summer of 1854. Cholera has seized London with unprecedented intensity. A metropolis of more than 2 million people, London is just emerging as one of the first modern cities in the world. But lacking the infrastructure necessary to support its dense population - garbage removal, clean water, sewers - the city has become the perfect breeding ground for a terrifying disease that no one knows how to cure." "As their neighbors begin dying, two men are spurred to action: the Reverend Henry Whitehead, whose faith in a benevolent God is shaken by the seemingly random nature of the victims, and Dr. John Snow, whose ideas about contagion have been dismissed by the scientific community, but who is convinced that he knows how the disease is being transmitted. The Ghost Map chronicles the outbreak's spread and the desperate efforts to put an end to the epidemic - and solve the most pressing medical riddle of the age."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: Maryanne Cline Horowitz Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9004438033 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 435
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An exploration of the ways early modern European artists have visualized continents through the female (sometimes male) body to express their perceptions of newly encountered peoples. Often stereotypical, these personifications are however more complex than what they seem.
Author: Tine Luk Meganck
Author: M. P. R. van den Broecke
Author: Marcel Peter René Broecke
Author: M. P. R. van den Broecke
Author: Gerald Roe Crone
Author: Palmira Brummett
Author: Steven Johnson
Author: Library of Congress. Geography and Map Division
Author: Maryanne Cline Horowitz
Author: Adolf Stieler