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Lies of the Land: Painted Maps in Late Medieval and Early Modern France

Lies of the Land: Painted Maps in Late Medieval and Early Modern France

Serchuk, Camille

Hardcover

Art HistoryFrench HistoryGeography

ISBN10: 0271097736
ISBN13: 9780271097732
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Published: Jan 28 2025
Pages: 234
Weight: 2.40
Height: 0.89 Width: 8.14 Depth: 10.18
Language: English

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. Looking beyond the techniques of measurement and perspective, Serchuk shows how painterly interventions framed and manipulated the appearance and reception of cartographic objects.

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