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Worldly Consumers: The Demand for Maps in Renaissance Italy
Genevieve Carlton
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| #730812 in Books | 2015-06-22 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x.90 x6.00l,.0 | File type: PDF | 240 pages||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Fascinating and well researched.|By William P. Haneman|This book opens a window on display and use of maps by the public of Venice and Florence. It engagingly makes the case that maps were not only items of extravagant display in the halls of the most wealthy and powerful, but were for the first time used as expressions of identity by 'ordinary' citizens (admittedly wealthy by||
"In describing map trade and consumption during the Renaissance in Italy, historian Carlton bases her study on household inventories from Venice and Florence, and on the inventory of the Florentine map shop of the prominent Francesco Rosselli, an ea
Though the practical value of maps during the sixteenth century is well documented, their personal and cultural importance has been relatively underexamined. In Worldly Consumers, Genevieve Carlton explores the growing availability of maps to private consumers during the Italian Renaissance and shows how map acquisition and display became central tools for constructing personal identity and impressing one’s peers.
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