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<div style="margin: 0px;" align="center"><font><span style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><font color="#201f1e"><span style="margin: 0px;"><font size="3" face="Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000"><font face="georgia,times new roman,times,serif"><font size="4" color="#0000FF"><b><i>“Quand les artistes dessinaient les cartes :
vues et figures de l’espace français,
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<div style="margin: 0px;" align="center"><font><span style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><font color="#201f1e"><span style="margin: 0px;"><font size="3" face="Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000"><font face="georgia,times new roman,times,serif"><font size="4" color="#0000FF"><b><i>Moyen Age et Renaissance</i>”
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<div style="margin: 0px;" align="center"><font><span style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><font size="3" face="Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font face="georgia,times new roman,times,serif"><b>(When
artists drew maps.
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<div style="margin: 0px;" align="center"><font><span style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><font color="#201f1e"><span style="margin: 0px;"><font size="3" face="Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000"><font face="georgia,times new roman,times,serif"><b>Views and figures of France from the Middle Ages and
the Renaissance)
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<div style="margin: 0px;" align="center"><font><span style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><font color="#201f1e"><span style="margin: 0px;"><font size="3" face="Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000"><font face="georgia,times new roman,times,serif"><b><a href="http://www.archives-nationales.culture.gouv.fr/quand-les-artistes-dessinaient-les-cartes">Exhibition</a></b> will be held at the <font color="#FF0000"><b><font size="4">Archives nationales (Paris) </font>
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<div style="margin: 0px;" align="center"><font><span style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><font color="#201f1e"><span style="margin: 0px;"><font size="3" face="Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000"><font face="georgia,times new roman,times,serif"><font color="#FF0000"><b>from 25
September 2019 to 7 January 2020</b></font>.
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<div style="margin: 0px;"><font face="georgia,times new roman,times,serif"><span style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><font color="#201f1e"><span style="margin: 0px;"><font size="3" color="#000000">Bringing
together over 100 examples drawn from archives all over France, most
of </font></span></font><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">which</span><font style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt;" size="3" color="#201f1e"><font color="#000000"><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt;"> are
being </span></font><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt;">exhibited</span><font color="#000000"><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt;"> for
the first time, the
show 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, to
catalogue possessions, and to celebrate the
identity of a place or territory.
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<div style="margin: 0px;"><font face="georgia,times new roman,times,serif"><span style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><font style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt;" size="3" color="#201f1e"><font color="#000000"><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt;">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. Richly
colored and abundantly detailed, these compelling images offer rich and
unexpected insights into artistic and cartographic practice, and into
the forces that shaped urban and rural landscapes during the Middle Ages
and the Renaissance. They pose provocative
challenges to traditional conceptions of cartography and invite us to
reconsider what a map is and does.</span></font></font></span></font></div>
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<font style="color: rgb(32, 31, 30); font-size: 15px;" size="3" face="georgia,times new roman,times,serif" color="#000000"><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;"><b>The full-color catalogue,</b> </span></font><font face="georgia,times new roman,times,serif" color="#000000"><span style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><font size="3" color="#201f1e"><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt;">published
by Le Passage, is </span></font><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt;">available</span><font size="3" color="#201f1e"><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt;"> at
the AN and online.</span></font></span></font></div>
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<font face="georgia,times new roman,times,serif" color="#000000"><span style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><font size="3" color="#201f1e"><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt;"><a href="http://www.lepassage-editions.fr/produit/artistes-dessinaient-cartes/" id="LPlnk509021" target="_blank">http://www.lepassage-editions.fr/produit/artistes-dessinaient-cartes/</a>
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<div style="color: rgb(32, 31, 30); font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px;"><font face="georgia,times new roman,times,serif"><span style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;">Associated
with the exhibition, there will be <b>a conference on local and regional
cartography on October 15th and 16th, in Paris and Orléans</b>:</span>
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<span style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><font face="georgia,times new roman,times,serif"><a href="http://www.archives-nationales.culture.gouv.fr/documents/10157/11375/colloque-15-16-oct-2019.pdf/04320590-fe3b-42eb-b808-4192205cb512" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;">http://www.archives-nationales.culture.gouv.fr/documents/10157/11375/colloque-15-16-oct-2019.pdf/04320590-fe3b-42eb-b808-4192205cb512</span></a></font>
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<div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font size="2">Information from <b>Camille Serchuk</b></font>
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