| Body-Worlds: Opicinus de Canistris and the Medieval Cartographic Imagination Contributor(s): Whittington, Karl (Author) |
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ISBN: 0888444265 ISBN-13: 9780888444264 Publisher: PIMS OUR PRICE: $42.75 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Art | History - Medieval - Art | Techniques - Drawing - History | Europe - Medieval |
| Dewey: 741.092 |
| Series: Studies and Texts |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 8" W x 10" (1.55 lbs) 224 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Medieval (500-1453) - Religious Orientation - Christian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In 1334, an Italian priest named Opicinus de Canistris fell ill and had a divine vision of continents and oceans transformed into human figures which inspired numerous drawings. While they relate closely to contemporary maps and seacharts, religious iconography, medical illustration, and cosmological diagrams, Opicinus's drawings cannot be assimilated to any of these categories. In their beautiful strangeness they complicate many of our assumptions about medieval visual culture, and spark lines of inquiry into the interplay of religion and science, the practice of experimentation, the operations of allegory in the fourteenth century, and ultimately into the status of representation itself. |