Bodies and Maps: Early Modern Personifications of the Continents: 73 (Intersections)

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An exploration of the ways early modern European artists have visualized continents through the female (sometimes male) body to express their perceptions of newly encountered peoples. Often stereotypical, these personifications are however more complex than what they seem. Contents Acknowledgements Illustrations Notes on the Editors Notes on the Contributors Chapter 1 Introduction (1): Rival Interpretations
of Continent Personifications Chapter 2 Introduction (2): Allegories of the Four Continents Today: Assessing Contemporary
Contributions Part 1 Personifications of the Continents and Issues of Race and Gender Chapter 3 Gender and Race in the Personification of the Continents in the Early Modern Period:
Building Eurocentrism Chapter 4 Exotic Female (and Male) Continents:
Early Modern Fourfold Division of Humanity PART 2 Cartographical Origins of Early
Continent Personification Chapter 5 The Pre-History of the Personification of Continents on Maps: Earth, Ocean, and the
Sons of Noah Chapter 6 Magi, Winds, Continents: Dark Skin and Global
Allegory in Early Modern Images Part 3
Personifications of the World in Italian Frescoes Chapter 7 Casting the Continents: Sacred History and
Spiritual Odyssey in the Camposanto of Pisa Chapter 8 Portraits of the World – The Four Continents at Palazzo Farnese in Caprarola: The Figurative Code,
Sources and Comparisons Part 4 Continent Personifications in Maps and
Book Illustration Chapter 9 Why were there no Continental Allegories in Renaissance Venice? The Amerasian Personifications of Giuseppe Rosaccio Chapter 10 Worlds Apart: The Four Continents and the
Civitates Orbis Terrarum Chapter 11 When Allegory Met History: Allegories of the Continents on Costume-Book Title Pages in the
Late Sixteenth Century Part 5 Popularization of Continent Personifications in the Eighteenth Century Chapter 12 The Visible Church. The Discourse on an Ecclesia Triumphans and the Four Continents in Parish
Churches of Baroque Southern Germany Chapter 13 The Rearing Horse and the Kneeling Camel: Continental Ceramics and Europe’s Race
to Modernity Chapter 14 Collecting the Four Continents: James Hazen Hyde
(1876–1959), an American in Paris Chapter 15 Afterword: Ornament and the Fabrication of Early
Modern Worlds Index Nominum