Description: A single, monumental mappa mundi (world map), made around 1300 for Hereford Cathedral, survives intact from the Middle Ages. As Marcia Kupfer reveals in her arresting new study, this celebrated testament to medieval learning has long been profoundly misunderstood. Features of the colored and gilded map that baffle modern expectations are typically dismissed as the product of careless execution. Kupfer argues that they should rightly be seen as part of the map's encoded commentary on the nature of vision itself. Optical conceits and perspectival games formed part of the map's language of vision, were central to its commission, and shaped its display, formal design, and allegorical fabric. These discoveries compel a sweeping revision of the artwork's intellectual and art-historical genealogy, as well as its function and aesthetic significance, shedding new light on the impact of scientific discourses in late medieval art. Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
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EAN: 9780300220339
UPC: 9780300220339
ISBN: 9780300220339
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Book Title: Art and Optics in the Hereford Map: An English Map
Item Length: 28.5 cm
Number of Pages: 240 Pages
Publication Name: Art and Optics in the Hereford Map: an English Mappa Mundi, C. 1300
Language: English
Publisher: Yale University Press
Item Height: 283 mm
Subject: Geography & Geosciences
Publication Year: 2016
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 1264 g
Author: Marcia Kupfer
Item Width: 229 mm
Series: Studies in British Art
Format: Hardcover
