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Il polittico di Giotto nella Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna: nuove letture, a cura di DIEGO CAUZZI e CLAUDIO SECCARONI, Firenze 2009 (Centro Di).

Sommario

Julian Gardner, Il polittico di Giotto di Bondone nella Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna (pp. 9-15); Tavole a colori (pp. 16-21); Gian Piero Cammarota, Vicende museali del polittico (pp. 23-27); Laura D’Agostino e Arianna Guarini, Giotto e la “copia ingannevole” del 1880 (pp. 29-33); Laura D’Agostino e Beatrice Provinciali, Note sul restauro del 1958 (pp. 35-43); Alfredo Aldrovandi e Alessandro Migliori, Analisi della fluorescenza X (XRF) (pp. 45-47); Bruno Radicati e Marcello Picollo, Indagini FORS (pp. 49-51); Diego Cauzzi e Diego Sali, Analisi FT-IR in situ con strumentazione portatile (pp. 53-57); Alfredo Aldrovandi e Ottavio Ciappi, Radiografia (pp. 59-59); Diego Cauzzi, Ciro Castelli, PierPaolo Monfardini e Claudio Seccaroni, Il supporto ligneo: costruzione, struttura e proporzioni (pp. 61-77); Andrea G. De Marchi, L’oro di Giotto (pp. 79-); Diego Cauzzi, PierPaolo Monfardini e Claudio Seccaroni, I fondi dorati (pp. 87-93); Diego Cauzzi e Claudio Seccaroni, La tecnica pittorica (pp. 95-107); Riferimenti bibliografici (pp. 109-111).

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YORIO OTAKA, HIDEKA FUKUI et CHRISTINE FERLAMPIN-ARCHER, Roman d’Alexandre en prose (British Library, Royal 15. E. VI, fol. 2v-24v), avec une Préface de PHILIPPE MÉNARD, Kyoto 2008 (Centre de la Recherche Interculturelle à l’Université Otemae - Dohosha Printing Co.).

Contenu

Préface (pp. III-IV); Introduction: A. Miniatures (pp. 3-48); B. Langue (pp. 49-79); C. Leçon de certains manuscrits (pp. 79-85); Reproduction du manuscrit (pp. 89-131); Transcription du texte (pp. 135-232); Index des noms propres (pp. 233-242); et Glossaire (pp. 245-271).

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Cartography in Antiquities and the Middle Ages. Fresh Perspectives, New Methods, edited by RICHARD J.A. TALBERT and RICHARD W. UNGER, Leiden and Boston 2008 (Brill) (Series: Technology and Change in History, 10), $ 147.00 or € 103.00.

In scope, this book matches The History of Cartography, vol. 1 (1987) edited by Brian Harley and David Woodward. Now, twenty years after the appearance of that seminal work, classicists and medievalists from Europe and North America highlight, distill and reflect on the remarkably productive progress made since in many different areas of the study of maps. The interaction between experts on antiquity and on the Middle Ages evident in the thirteen contributions offers a guide to the future and illustrates close relationships in the evolving practice of cartography over the first millennium and a half of the Christian era.

Contents

List of Contributors (pp. IX-XI); List of Illustrations (pp. XIII-XIX); Acknowledgments (p. XXI).
Richard Talbert and Richard W. Unger, Introduction (pp. 1-7); Richard Talbert, Greek and Roman Mapping: Twenty-First Century Perspectives (pp. 9-27); Patrick Gautier Dalché, L’Héritage Antique de la Cartographie Médiévale: les Problèmes et les Acquis (pp. 29-66); Jennifer Trimble, Process and Transformation on the Severan Marble Plan of Rome (pp. 67-97); Tom Elliott, Constructing a Digital Edition for the Peutinger Map (pp. 99-110); Emily Albu, Rethinking the Peutinger Map (pp. 111-119); Yossef Rapaport and Emilie Savage-Smith, The ‘Book of Curiosities’ and a Unique Map of the World (pp. 121-138); Maja Kominko, New Perspectives on Paradise. The Levels of Reality in Byzantine and Latin Medieval Maps (pp. 139-153); Benjamin Z. Kedar, Rashi’s Map of the Land of Canaan, ca. 1100, and Its Cartographic Background (pp. 155-168); Natalia Lozovsky, Maps and Panegyrics: Roman Geo-Ethnographical Rhetoric in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages (pp. 169-188); Lucy E.G. Donkin, “Usque ad Ultimum Terrae”: Mapping the Ends of the Earth in Two Medieval Floor Mosaics (pp. 189-217); Evelyn Edson, Maps in Context: Isidore, Orosius, and the Medieval Image of the World (pp. 219-236); Raymond Clemens, Medieval Maps in a Renaissance Context: Gregorio Dati and the Teaching of Geography in Fifteenth-Century Florence (pp. 237-256); and Camille Serchuk, ‘Cartes et Chroniques’: Mapping and History in Late Medieval France (pp. 257-276); Bibliography (pp. 277-296); Index (pp. 297-299); and Colour Plates (pls. I-XIV).

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EXHIBITION: Magnificent Maps: Power, Propaganda and Art, The British Library (Paccar Gallery, St Pancras, 96 Euston Road, London NW1), 30 April - 19 September 2010. Exhibition opening hours: Monday 09.30-18.00, Tuesday 09.30-20.00, Wednesday-Friday 09.30-18.00, Saturday 09.30-17.00, Sunday and English public holidays 11.00-17.00. Admission is free.

Maps can be works of art, propaganda and indoctrination. Magnificent Maps: Power, Propaganda and Art offers a rare chance to see an unrivalled collection of cartographic masterpieces that were intended for display side-by-side with the world’s greatest paintings and sculptures.

Drawn from the 4½ million items held in the British Library’s cartographic collections - the greatest map collection in the world - this new exhibition will showcase over 80 of the most impressive wall-maps ever created, dating from 200AD to the present day, most of which have never been seen before.

Recreating the settings in which they would have originally been seen - from the palace to the schoolroom, the exhibition reveals how maps express an enormous variety of differing world views, using size and beauty to convey messages of status and power.

Highlights include:
* Fra Mauro World Map c.1450 by William Frazer, 1804 - a hand-drawn copy of the first great modern world map, made for the British East India Company as self-perceived heirs of the Portuguese empire in the Asia
* Confiance - ses Amputations se Poursuivent, 1944 - a German propaganda poster portraying Churchill as an octopus, drawing on earlier comic maps
* The Klencke Atlas, 1660 - the largest atlas in the world, and intended to be a summary of the world’s knowledge, produced for the exclusive appreciation of Charles II of England on his restoration to the throne, now on show for the first time to the general public
* Chinese Terrestrial Globe by Nicola Longobardi / Bartolomeo Dias, 1623 - the earliest Chinese terrestrial Globe, made by Jesuit missionaries for the Chinese Emperor
* A Chart of the Mediterranean Sea by Diogo Homem, 1570 - a luxury map with gold leaf possibly produced for royalty, made after Homem fled from exile in Morocco for his involvement in a murder in Portugal
* Americae, sive quartae orbis partis, nova et exactissima by Diego Gutierrez / Hieronymus Cock, 1562 - a map to flatter King Philip II of Spain and celebrate the Spanish domination of the New World
* World Map by Pierre Desceliers, 1550 - a compendious world map made for the King of France, celebrating the discoveries of Jacques Cartier in Canada, and showing the myths, animals and natural history in their correct place in the world.

The accompanying catalogue, Magnificent Maps: Power, Propaganda and Art by Peter Barber and Tom Harper has been published by British Library  Publishing in April 2010. Is now available in hardback at £29.95 and paperback at £17.95, with 176 pages, 150 colour illustrations.

The exhibition coincides with two BBC Four series about maps to be broadcast this spring. The British Library and the BBC recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding and Peter Barber, Head of Map Collections at the British Library, is acting as a consultant with the programme makers, with some filming taking place at the Library.

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