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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... means of his mouth but also with the pen ; he writes and paints all kinds of figures and pic- tures before them and wants to allude to , and make them under- stand , something grand by showing them something small . . . An astronomer ...
... means of hooks to the top of the image . It is only by looking carefully that the reader notices the upside - down eye- , nose- and mouthholes that separate the first from the last name , that is , the " Johann . J. " from the ...
... means of curved lines . The map is dominated by Africa , which occupies the top half of the depiction . The area that interests us in particular , the Caspian Sea , is represented rather accu- rately in the bottom left - hand quadrant ...
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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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