| Description |
1 online resource (v, 237 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Summary |
"This book focuses on how inexpensive maps, produced for the masses, accrued cultural value for everyday consumers in Renaissance Italy, who wanted to own and display maps in their homes as works of art--not for practical use, but for their cultural capital as commodities"--ECIP info. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-227) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: finding the consumers of sixteenth-century maps -- Capturing the world on paper: the visual tradition and mapmaking -- The commerce of cartography: printing, price, and Francesco Rosselli -- A buyer's market: map ownership in Venice and Florence, 1460-1630 -- A world unknown to the ancients: the demand for cartographic novelty -- The power of knowledge: education and curiosity in cartographic prints -- Making an impression: the display of maps in sixteenth-century Italian homes -- Conclusion: worldly consumers and the meaning of maps. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Map industry and trade -- Italy -- History -- 16th century.
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Map industry and trade. |
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Italy. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
16th century |
| Subject |
Maps -- Marketing -- History -- 16th century.
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Maps -- Marketing. |
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Maps. |
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Maps in art.
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Maps in art. |
| Chronological Term |
1500-1599 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Carlton, Genevieve. Worldly consumers. Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, [2015] 9780226255316 (DLC) 2014043302 (OCoLC)890757421 |
| ISBN |
9780226255453 (electronic book) |
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022625545X (electronic book) |
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9780226255316 (hardcover) |
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