Visual Images on Medieval and Early Modern World Maps: Iconography of the Known and the Unknown

Kartografija i Geoinformacije

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Palmira Krleža¹  Dubravka Mlinarić³ 

[1]Odsjek za povijest umjetnosti

[2]Department of Art History, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

[3]Institut za migracije i narodnosti

[4]Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies

关键词: World Maps;    Middle Ages;    Early Modern Period;    Visual Art;    Iconography;    Imagology;   

DOI  :  10.32909/kg.21.38.2

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Kartografija i Geoinformacije

【 摘 要 】

This interdisciplinary research is focused on visual images on maps of the known world spanning from the medieval to the early modern period. Regardless of their purpose, which could range from ideological representations of the medieval world, as were O or T maps, to practical sailing maps like portolan charts and other early modern nautical charts of the (already known) world in a smaller scale, they carried the standard scope of geo-cartographic data and content. Besides, they offered a rich illustrative component of respectable graphic quality. This depended on the purpose of the map, as well as the geographical knowledge of its author on one hand and on the skill and expertise of its creator on the other. Through this short synchronic and diachronic overview of the iconographic elements of Old World maps, especially in respect to Croatian lands, some chronological continuities of cartographic presentation were revealed. The spread of ideas and ideologies communicated and disseminated by these will also be discussed.

【 授权许可】

CC BY-SA