We found a match
Your institution may have access to this item. Find your institution then sign in to continue.
- Title
On the Impulse of Mapping, or How a Flat Earth Theory of Dutch Maps Distorts the Thickness and Pictorial Proclivities of Early Modern Dutch Cartography (and Misses Its Picturing Impulse).
- Authors
Schmidt, Benjamin
- Abstract
An essay is presented examining 17th-century Dutch maps from a combined artistic and cartographic perspective, building off of the work of art scholar Svetlana Alpers in her essay "The Mapping Impulse in Dutch Art." The author points out how the cartographic designs of Dutch maps reflected similar themes seen in contemporary Dutch art and visual culture. The map "Novissima et Accuratissima Totius Americae Descriptio," by Nicolaes Visscher, is particularly discussed in this fashion.
- Subjects
HISTORY of cartography; 17TH century Dutch art; VISSCHER, Nicolaes; SEVENTEENTH century; HISTORY
- Publication
Art History, 2012, Vol 35, Issue 5, p1036
- ISSN
0141-6790
- Publication type
Essay
- DOI
10.1111/j.1467-8365.2012.00936.x