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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... Curiosities ) of 1661 with its insistence on the concepts of writing and drawing , as well as the word and the " Wunderbuch " - contains a number of themes that can be applied to Olearius's ideas on the genre of the frontispiece ( also ...
... curiosities . There are thus a number of possible interpretations for Olearius's choice of the lion / lionskin . First , it serves its purpose as a dramatic visual intro- duction to the Persianischer Rosenthal and piques the reader's ...
... curiosities rather than objects to be scrutinized and disassembled for the pur- pose of unlocking the secrets of Western inventiveness and techno- logical achievement . The rarity of maps , those quintessential tools of early modern ...
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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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