[HistMap-List] When Artist drew Maps - exhibition, Paris

Thu Sep 26 19:42:15 CEST 2019

Quand les artistes dessinaient les cartes :vues et figures de lespace français,

Moyen Age et Renaissance

(When artists drew maps.

Views and figures of France from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance)

Exhibition will be held at the Archives nationales (Paris)

from 25September 2019 to 7 January 2020.

Bringingtogether over 100 examples drawn from archives all over France, most of which arebeing exhibited forthe first time, theshow examines local and regional maps produced in France between 1300 and 1600. It focuses on a moment when the history of cartography intersected with the history of art, and on contexts in which empirical observation took precedence over measurement in mapmaking.The maps on display were produced by painters to delineate boundaries or legal rights, to resolve territorial disputes, to document public works, to support military operations, to describe historical events, tocatalogue possessions, and to celebrate theidentity of a place or territory.

The painters who produced these figures (as they were called at the time) drew on their expertise in drawing, composition, and perspective to create spectacular visual documents in a wide variety of media and formats. Richlycolored and abundantly detailed, these compelling images offer rich andunexpected insights into artistic and cartographic practice, and into the forces that shaped urban and rural landscapes during the Middle Agesand the Renaissance. They pose provocativechallenges to traditional conceptions of cartography and invite us to reconsider what a map is and does.

The full-color catalogue, publishedby Le Passage, is available atthe AN and online.

http://www.lepassage-editions.fr/produit/artistes-dessinaient-cartes/

Associatedwith the exhibition, there will be a conference on local and regional cartography on October 15th and 16th, in Paris and Orléans:

http://www.archives-nationales.culture.gouv.fr/documents/10157/11375/colloque-15-16-oct-2019.pdf/04320590-fe3b-42eb-b808-4192205cb512

Information from Camille Serchuk

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