Camille Serchuk, "Lies of the Land: Painted Maps in Late Medieval and Early Modern France"
English | ISBN: 0271097736 | 2025 | 234 pages | MOBI | 13 MB
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 learned the more expressive and imaginative Mannerist forms that dominated French painting in this period. Their maps draw on conventions of both painting and mapmaking to create beautiful, informative, and persuasive images for a wide variety of contexts and purposes. In this book, Camille Serchuk explores the strategies these cartographers deployed to weave together accuracy, ornament, and artifice in maps at all scales.
Recommend Download Link Hight Speed | Please Say Thanks Keep Topic Live
Links are Interchangeable - Single Extraction