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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... head , and holds an olive branch of peace in one hand , and a neck - iron in the other , which he has removed from the god . The Duke crushes a Gorgon / Medusa head underfoot symbolizing war . He is showered by flowers , perhaps roses ...
... head of a Moor , who has two daggers stuck into his eyes . This is a particularly violent image of Christian mastery over the infidel — who is blinded to the true faith - and is perhaps a trophy - like remnant from the Crusades . While ...
... head . He is entwined six times by a snake , symbolizing the path of the sun through the encliptic , and he holds the globe of the sun . The lion is sometimes represented resting a forepaw on the globe of the sun . 9980 99981 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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