Among the most beautiful and compelling works of Renaissance art, painted maps adorned the halls and galleries of princely palaces. This book is the first to discuss in detail the three-dimensional display of these painted map cycles and their full meaning in Renaissance culture. Art historian Francesca Fiorani focuses on two of the most significant and marvellous surviving Italian map murals - the Guardaroba Nuova of the Palazzo Vecchio, Florence, commissioned by Duke Cosimo de' Medici, and the Gallery of Maps in the Vatican, commissioned by Pope Gregory XIII. Both cycles were not only pioneering cartographic enterprises but also powerful political and religious images. Presenting an original interpretation of the interaction among art, science, politics, and religion in Renaissance culture, the book also offers fresh insights into the Medici and papal courts.
- ISBN10 0300107277
- ISBN13 9780300107272
- Publish Date 11 June 2005
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 21 May 2010
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Yale University Press
- Edition DLX ed.
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 256
- Language English