Body-worlds : Opicinus de Canistris and the medieval cartographic imagination
- Responsibility
- Karl Whittington.
- Publication
- Toronto : Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, [2014]
- Copyright notice
- ©2014
- Physical description
- xii, 212 pages : color illustrations, facsimiles ; 26 cm.
- Series
- Studies and texts (Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies) ; 186.
- Text, image, context 1.
Description
Creators/Contributors
- Author/Creator
- Whittington, Karl, author.
- Contributor
- Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies issuing body.
- Biblioteca apostolica vaticana. Manuscript. Vat. Lat. 6435.
- Biblioteca apostolica vaticana. Manuscript. Pal. lat. 1993.
Contents/Summary
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-208) and index.
- Contents
-
- Opicinus's cartography : rethinking early Portolan charts
- Empirical allegory : structure, vision, and experimentation in four drawings
- Diagramming everything : Opicinus's cosmologies
- Graphic art : gender, sex, and queer bodies in form and metaphor.
- Included Work
- Opicino, de Canistris, 1296-approximately 1354. Drawings. Selections.
Subjects
- Subject
- Opicino, de Canistris, 1296-approximately 1354.
- Drawing, Medieval > Italy.
- Geography, Medieval > Maps.
- Maps in art.
- Human figure in art.
- Human body > Symbolic aspects > Italy > History > To 1500.
- Art, Medieval > Italy.
- Nautical charts > Europe > History > To 1500.
- Visual communication > Italy > History > To 1500.
- Visions in art.
- Art and mental illness > Case studies.
- Biblioteca apostolica vaticana. Manuscript. Vat. Lat. 6435.
- Biblioteca apostolica vaticana. Manuscript. Pal. lat. 1993.
Bibliographic information
- Publication date
- 2014
- Copyright date
- 2014
- Title Variation
- Opicinus de Canistris and the medieval cartographic imagination
- Series
- Studies and texts ; 186
- Text, image, context : studies in medieval manuscript illumination ; 1
- Note
- A study of drawings found in Opicinus's journal, preserved as the manuscript Biblioteca apostolica vaticana Vat. Lat. 6435, and other drawings found in Biblioteca apostolica vaticana Pal. lat. 1993.
- Series statement ("Studies and texts") from cataloging-in-publication data and publisher's website.
- Note
- Issued also in electronic format.
- ISBN
- 9780888441867 (bound)
- 088844186X (bound)
- 9781771103473 (pdf)
- 1771103477 (pdf)
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