Item Number: 129087 Title: Body-Worlds: Opicinus de Canistris and the Medieval Cartographic Imagination Author: Whittington, Karl Price: Not Available ISBN: 9780888441867 Description: Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2014. 25cm., hardcover, 212pp. illus. Contents: 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. (Text, Image, Context : Studies in Medieval Manuscript Illumination, 1) We regret to inform you that this title is no longer available. P.O. Box 3904, Kingston, New York 12402 US Phone: 845-331-8519 Fax: 845-331-0852 Email: michael@artbooks.com |
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