Generous support for this exhibition has been provided by the Chazen Museum of Art Council and the Wisconsin Arts Board with funds from the State of Wisconsin and the National Endowment for the Arts.Ĭurator Sandra Sáenz-López Pérez was the 2012-13 David Woodward Memorial Fellow in the History of Cartography. Her research for the exhibit was conducted during this two-month fellowship, which was made possible by the generosity of Arthur and Janet Holzheimer and hosted at UW–Madison by the History of Cartography Project and the Institute for Research in the Humanities. Nederlands: Nieuwe en meest nauwkeurige wereldkaart door Joan Blaeu. New and most accurate world map, by J.Bleau. Title: Orbis Terrarum Nova et Accuratissima Tabula, Auctore Nicolao Visscher Topic: World Maps Physical Description: 1 map : hand colored 22.5 x 19 in. Free for commercial use, no attribution required. Marginalia in cARTography is guest curated by Sandra Sáenz –López Pérez, an art historian who specializes in the iconographical analysis of maps and the artistic interest of historical cartography. Download Image of Nova et Accuratissima Terrarum Orbis Tabula (J.Blaeu, 1664). The exhibition also explores cartography as an art form, with a focus on the representations in the map margins. The marginalia sheds light on the content and purpose of the maps, their authors and patrons, and on the historical period when they were made. Its borders illustrate the four elements, seven planets, four seasons, and Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.Ĭredit: Department of Special Collections, Memorial Library, UW–Madison Willem Janszoon Blaeu’s Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica ac Hydrographica Tabula, was done in 1635. This exhibition explores the visual discourse between marginal artistic images-sometimes humorous, sometimes poignant-and the maps where they appear. The exhibit includes nearly 50 maps drawn from 13 libraries across the country, including UW–Madison’s Department of Special Collections and the Robinson Map Library. It is the first and best map of the most magnificent work of its kind ever. Marginalia in cARTography, which runs through May 18, explores the images on the margins of maps dating from the 13th century through the 1960s. Joan Blaeu's highly important map of the world in double hemispheres, used only in the magnificent Atlas Maior, a book for kings and princes, a grand showpiece, the most expensive and impressive book of the day, in twelve volumes containing more than 600 maps. “Marginalia” was coined in the early 19th century to mean the notes, scribbles, and doodles that readers have added to the margins of books and manuscripts since antiquity. The word portolan comes from the Italian adjective portolano, meaning. The subject of one exhibit at the Chazen Museum of Art is marginal. Literally. guidebooks, orbis terrarum nova et accuratissima tabula by goos, map, world. The work makes the map a celebration of the Copernican heliocentric universe and links the map with the four seasons.Ĭredit: Osher Map Library at the University of Southern Maine Relation 093:057 Provenance Purchased en bloc by HEH from the Museum Book Store, June 7, 1927.Marginal decoration of Joan Blaeu’s Nova et accuratissima totius terrarum orbis tabula, on a work from 1662. Double-hemisphere world map from Gooss Sea Atlas of the Water World, 1672 Old World Map 1666 Orbis Terrarum Nova et Accuratissima Tabula, 1666 Orbis Terravm. Verso Text: MS note: 288.Įxtent 1 map : 45 x 54 cm. References: Shirley 439 Phillips 470 Wagner 388. Artwork around map is taken from Visscher's 1658 map, see 093:057M. Pitt was supplied this plate by van Waesberge. Draco." Kashnor dates as 1666, but Shirley identifies this as the second state of this map and gives appeared in information, dating to 1680. 1611-1686, cartographerįor information on use of Digital Library materials, please see Library Rights and Permissions: ĭescription Kashnor notes, " Shows California as an island with the 'Strait of Anian,' also a small portion of New Zealand. Title Orbis terrarum nova et accuratissima tabula / auctore Joanne à Loon Creator Loon, J.
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