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Fra Niccolò Guidalotto’s City View, Nautical Atlas and Book of Memories: Cartography and Propaganda between Venice and Constantinople

  • Nirit Ben-Aryeh Debby
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Maps and Travel in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period
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Abstract

This paper focuses on three Venetian sources created in the Venetian embassy in Constantinople during the seventeenth century that include a painted city view of Constantinople, a nautical atlas, and an illustrated volume. It explores the medieval traditions of these sources from a comparative perspective and the connections between them: the nautical atlas served as the ideological, artistic and cartographic source for the later Constantinople panorama; and the book of miniatures described the author’s sojourn in Constantinople and the political events surrounding the creation of the panorama. In their splendid iconography, these sources combine between word and image and serve as fascinating examples of Venetian visual propaganda against the Ottomans during the War of Candia.

Abstract

This paper focuses on three Venetian sources created in the Venetian embassy in Constantinople during the seventeenth century that include a painted city view of Constantinople, a nautical atlas, and an illustrated volume. It explores the medieval traditions of these sources from a comparative perspective and the connections between them: the nautical atlas served as the ideological, artistic and cartographic source for the later Constantinople panorama; and the book of miniatures described the author’s sojourn in Constantinople and the political events surrounding the creation of the panorama. In their splendid iconography, these sources combine between word and image and serve as fascinating examples of Venetian visual propaganda against the Ottomans during the War of Candia.

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter I
  2. Contents V
  3. Notes on Contributors VII
  4. Maps and Travel: An Introduction 1
  5. Part I: Historical Space
  6. Traveling the Mappa Mundi: Readerly Transport from Cassiodorus to Petrarch 17
  7. The Bestiary on the Hereford World Map (c. 1300) 37
  8. Cultural Landscape in Christian and Jewish Maps of the Holy Land 74
  9. Part II: Use and Reception
  10. Winds and Continents: Concepts for Structuring the World and Its Parts 91
  11. Fictive Travel and Mapmaking in Fourteenth-Century Iberia 136
  12. Les cartes marines comme source de réflexion géographique au XVe siècle 165
  13. Around the World: Borders and Frames in Two Sixteenth-Century Norman Map Books 189
  14. Part III: Travel into Sacred Spaces
  15. The Travels of the Rabbis and the Rabbinic Horizons of the Inhabited World 221
  16. Real and Fictive Travels to the Holy Land as Painted in the Florence Scroll 232
  17. Between Nazareth and Loreto: The Role of the Stone Bricks in Caravaggio’s ‘Madonna di Loreto’ 252
  18. Sacred Topographies and the Optics of Truth: Vasilij Grigorovich Barskij’s Journeys to Mount Athos (1725–1744) 281
  19. Part IV: Word and Images
  20. Antwerp Civic Self-Portraits 315
  21. Fra Niccolò Guidalotto’s City View, Nautical Atlas and Book of Memories: Cartography and Propaganda between Venice and Constantinople 342
  22. How to Represent the New World When One Is Not Andrea Mantegna: Sovereigns in the Americas on Sixteenth-Century Maps 363
  23. Index of Toponyms and Locations 383
  24. Index of Historical, Religious and Mythological Figures 395
  25. Index of Modern Authors 403
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110588774-014

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter I
  2. Contents V
  3. Notes on Contributors VII
  4. Maps and Travel: An Introduction 1
  5. Part I: Historical Space
  6. Traveling the Mappa Mundi: Readerly Transport from Cassiodorus to Petrarch 17
  7. The Bestiary on the Hereford World Map (c. 1300) 37
  8. Cultural Landscape in Christian and Jewish Maps of the Holy Land 74
  9. Part II: Use and Reception
  10. Winds and Continents: Concepts for Structuring the World and Its Parts 91
  11. Fictive Travel and Mapmaking in Fourteenth-Century Iberia 136
  12. Les cartes marines comme source de réflexion géographique au XVe siècle 165
  13. Around the World: Borders and Frames in Two Sixteenth-Century Norman Map Books 189
  14. Part III: Travel into Sacred Spaces
  15. The Travels of the Rabbis and the Rabbinic Horizons of the Inhabited World 221
  16. Real and Fictive Travels to the Holy Land as Painted in the Florence Scroll 232
  17. Between Nazareth and Loreto: The Role of the Stone Bricks in Caravaggio’s ‘Madonna di Loreto’ 252
  18. Sacred Topographies and the Optics of Truth: Vasilij Grigorovich Barskij’s Journeys to Mount Athos (1725–1744) 281
  19. Part IV: Word and Images
  20. Antwerp Civic Self-Portraits 315
  21. Fra Niccolò Guidalotto’s City View, Nautical Atlas and Book of Memories: Cartography and Propaganda between Venice and Constantinople 342
  22. How to Represent the New World When One Is Not Andrea Mantegna: Sovereigns in the Americas on Sixteenth-Century Maps 363
  23. Index of Toponyms and Locations 383
  24. Index of Historical, Religious and Mythological Figures 395
  25. Index of Modern Authors 403
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