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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... depicted , and the significance of this foreign battle for a European audience . The Early - Modern Costume Book Another medium used to depict foreign peoples for a European audi- ence was the illustrated costume book . This type of ...
... depicted and supplements the textual proclamation of the author's faith . The fron- tispiece to the 1647 edition only implied the religious dimension of the work : it depicted the author's profile in the cartouche , and did not show God ...
... depicted the sea as an oval , extending from east to west , an incor- rect depiction that had been perpetuated over the ages , following Ptolemy's Geographia . Olearius's portrayal thus begins to depict the Caspian correctly , a rather ...
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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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