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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... artists.32 The work included more than 1,250 personifications , arranged alphabetically , from Abbondanza ( abundance ) ... artist , Cesare d'Arpino , to follow the dic- tates of the text . The Iconologia thus was an important reference ...
... artist to depict an animal hide in an engraved title page . The frontispiece for Vestigi delle Antichità di Roma ( Prague , 1606 ) , by the artist Aegidius Sadeler portrays a flayed she - wolf , chosen because of its association with ...
... artist would sign his name . As mentioned above , Olearius considered himself as fulfilling a number of roles - author of the text , sketch artist , cartographer / geographer , historian — and of blurring the boundaries between these ...
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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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