Karlsruhe : ZKM Münich : Hirmer, [2014]
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• Published on the occasion of the exhibition: Mapping spaces : Netzwerke des Wissens in der Landschaftsmalerei des 17. Jahrhunderts / Mapping spaces : networks of knowledge in 17th century landscape painting held at ZKM Museum of Contemporary Art, April 12-July 13, 2014.
• Includes bibliographical references (pages 482-501).
• The ZKM throws new light on 17th century landscape painting. Comparable to modern satellite surveying (GPS), true to scale landscape representation is also indebted to the interdisciplinary exchange of knowledge: the alliance of geodesists, mathematicians, instrument makers and painters. Artists had designed modern surveying systems long before new media drew on images from outer space. The exhibition Mapping Spaces examines, for the first time ever on this scale, the influence of early modern guide books in geography, the science of surveying and the construction of fortification on Dutch painting around 1650. The prelude to the project, developed at the University of Trier, is Pieter Snayers’ large-format depiction of historical battle scenes, in which maps and landscape paintings are projected over one another so as to document the most recent developments in modern engineering, ballistics and the fortification construction. Over 220 exhibits, among them paintings, surveying instruments, graphics devices, books, maps and globes drawn from the most important collections of works, such as from the Prado (Madrid), the Louvre (Paris), the Rijksmuseum (Amsterdam) or the Kunsthistorischen Museum (Vienna) testify to these new theses in pictorial science. The new mapping of an early modern area of knowledge is accompanied by contemporary works of art that thematize the influence of technological developments on our present-day perception of space.–Museum website.
• 1. Mapping spaces: art, science and technology in the Seventeenth century — Painted topographies: a transdisciplinary approach to science and technology in Seventeenth century landscape painting / Ulrike Gehring — 2. A closed universe in dissolution — The Copernican revolution and the geometrization of physical space / Rienk Vermij — Infinite space: Calvinist controversies and theological accomodations of a new heaven / Jan Rohls — A multitude of worlds: Physica Mosaica and David Nieto’s quest for a Jewish natural philosophy / Jacques Picard — Heavens and Earth: early modern astronomical frontispieces / Inga Elmqvist Söderlund — 3. New cartographic projections in maps and globes — On Earth and heaven: globes as models of cosmological extensions / Andreas Christoph — A new genre of cartographic books: the atlas production in the low countries / Philipp Ziegler — A tentative view of cartography / Wladimir Velminski — The city book and the emergence of the artist cartographer / Jasper van Putten — 4. The art of maritime and celestial navigation — Embedded journalist of naval battles: Willem van de Velde I / Friso Lammertse — Shaping the seascape: Dutch artists imaging the maritime world / Jenny Gaschke — Global positioning and the measurement of time / Thomas Filk — 5. Early globalization and the transfer of knowledge — Colonial, religious and commercial machines: globalization as an impulse for knowledge / Karel Davids — Commerce, trade and the emergence of the New Sciences / Harold J. Cook — Beyond far horizons / Pieter Biesboer — 6. Spaces of knowledge: Siege views in the era of Pieter Snayers — Documenting military events events in Seventeenth-century battle scenes / Matthias Pfaffenbichler — Painting for the General: Pieter Snayers’ piccolomini cycle / Walter Kalina — Honing in on Pieter Snayers’ working method: Relief of Leuven, 1635 / Leen Kelchtermans — 7. Military architecture and technology: fortifications and inventions in the art of war — Sixteenth and Seventeenth centur

Subjects:

• Landscape painting — 17th century — Exhibitions.
• 1600 – 1699 fast
• Exhibition catalogs. fast (OCoLC)fst01424028

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