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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... women came riding toward us . They were splendidly deco- rated ; dressed in colorful velvet and silk skirts , with golden and silken cloths that flowed down from their heads over their shoulders ; around their necks they had pearls and ...
... woman holding a bowl . In the back row we see a soldier holding an axe ; an- other man with a mandil ( perhaps a ... women ; and I have seen few Persians who had a solemn and imposing way of walking . I think that this derives from ...
... women , according to the author , the women dress like men : “ Die Kleidung der Weiber seynd noch dünner als der Männer / werden auch umb den Leib nicht gebunden / sie tra- gen Hosen und Hembder / nach art der Männer . . . " ( The ...
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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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