Europe Views the World, 1500-1700
$99.94
- Hardcover
192 pages
- Release Date
9 October 2022
Summary
Europe Views the World examines the wide diversity of images that Europeans produced to represent the wide variety of peoples and places around the globe during and after the so-called ‘Age of Exploration’. Beginning with the medieval imagery of Europe’s imagined alien races, and with an emphasis on the artists of Northern Europe, Larry Silver takes the reader on a tour across continents, from the Americas to Africa and Asia.
Encompassing works such as prints, paintings, maps…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781848225473 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1848225474 |
| Author: | Larry Silver |
| Publisher: | Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd |
| Imprint: | Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 9 October 2022 |
| Weight: | 962g |
| Dimensions: | 190mm x 250mm |
| Series: | Northern Lights |
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Critics Review
‘Written in clear expository prose and argued in the lively style characteristic of Silver’s work, this new book synthesizes much recent scholarship and offers some new ideas on the ways in which Europeans depicted denizens of the rest of the world.’ – Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, Historians of Netherlandish Art Reviews
Larry Silver
Larry Silver is an art historian and writer. He is Farquhar Professor of History of Art, emeritus, at the University of Pennsylvania and has written and contributed to numerous publications including Peasant Scenes and Landscapes: The Rise of Pictorial Genres in the Antwerp Art Market (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006), Marketing Maximilian: The Visual Ideology of a Holy Roman Emperor (Princeton University Press, 2008) and Rembrandt’s Holland (Reaktion Books, 2017).
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