Visions of Persia: Mapping the Travels of Adam OleariusHarvard University Press, 2003 - 238 страници This work examines the travel account of a German baroque author who journeyed in search of silk from Northern Germany, through Muscovy, to the court of Shah Safi in Isfahan. Adam Olearius introduced Persian literature, history, and arts to the German-speaking public; his frank appraisal of Persian customs foreshadows the enlightened spirit of the eighteenth century (influencing Montesquieu's Persian Letters as well as Goethe's West-Eastern Divan) and prepares the way for German Romanticism's infatuation with Persian poetry. Brancaforte focuses on the visual and discursive nexus uniting Olearius's text with the numerous engravings that supplement the book. The emphasis falls on contextualized readings of Olearius's decorative frontispieces and his new and improved map of Persia and the Caspian Sea, as expressions of early modern subjectivity. |
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... European heraldic symbols , and informed his reader of the parallels between the iconographic traditions in Persia and Europe . The Persian sun / lion symbol becomes intelligible for a European audience , when it is represented as a ...
... Europe , Figure 4.1 is taken from the Rudimentum novitiorum of Lucas Brandis , published in Lübeck in 1475.105 It is a typical example of a medieval Christian rep- resentation of the world , and depicts the world as a disk . A so ...
... Europe We will now focus on the depiction of the Caspian Sea as it developed in Western Europe during the Early - Modern Era , that is , from approximately 1500 to 1725. We shall begin by examining maps that resulted from the presence ...
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ADAM OLEARIUS AND THE JOURNEY TO MUSCOVY AND PERSIA | 1 |
ADAM OLEARIUS AND THE EARLYMODERN FRONTISPIECE | 23 |
ADAM OLEARIUS AND THE PERSIANISCHER ROSENTHAL | 67 |
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