Body-Worlds: Opicinus de Canistris and the Medieval Cartographic Imagination by Karl Whittington
Body-Worlds: Opicinus de Canistris and the Medieval Cartographic Imagination

Karl Whittington

Body-Worlds: Opicinus de Canistris and the Medieval Cartographic Imagination

Studies and Texts

Karl Whittington

224 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction art history informative reflective medium-paced

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In 1334, an Italian priest named Opicinus de Canistris fell ill and had a divine vision of continents and oceans transformed into human figures which inspired numerous drawings. While they relate closely to contemporary maps and seacharts, religio...

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