Hannah Williams CLICK TO READ ARTICLE Abstract: Paris is a city renowned for its artistic communities. Yet while the art-world neighborhoods of modernist Paris are so well-known, we are far less familiar with the urban lives of the city’s earlier generations of artists. Where were the artists’ studios…
Catherine Walsh Nine sculptures made from eight blocks of marble comprise the Juno Fountain commissioned by Cosimo I de’ Medici (1519-1574) for the Sala Grande of the Palazzo Vecchio (Fig. 1). The sculptures represent Juno, Ceres, Arno, Parnassus, Florence, Temperance, two peacocks, and an arc around and within which…
Sophie Raux From the start of the sixteenth century until 1786, the Pont Notre-Dame in Paris was topped by two rows of houses. They were built to a standard design and marked out a paved and very busy street, lined with shops that were home to some sixty or…
Michael Simeone, Christopher Morris, Kenton McHenry, and Robert Markley The study of historical maps as a group or body poses interpretive challenges on a number of fronts: maps are representations of geophysical spaces, and yet they are also works of art, produced, exchanged, and viewed within the commercial and…
James Tice The 1748 Pianta Grande of Rome (Fig. 1) by Giambattista Nolli (1701-1756) is a milestone in the history of cartography. Its copious size (1760 x 2085 mm), intricate detail, and accuracy have made it an essential document for studying the architecture, landscape architecture and urban structure of Rome…
Marion Romberg Objectives of the Project During the late Renaissance, around 1570, humanists developed a new “shorthand” way for representing the world at a single glance: personifications of the four continents (Europe, Asia, Africa, and America). While the continent allegory as an iconic type had already been in use…
Paul Niell The criticism leveled at the United States and European nations for their inadequate responses to the devastation of various Caribbean islands—among them St John, Dominica, Martinique, Puerto Rico—by Hurricanes Irma and Maria in September 2017 reminds us of the imperial histories that have shaped the region as…
Christopher Drew Armstrong, Lily Brewer, Jennifer Donnelly, Alison Langmead, Vee McGyver, Meredith North CLICK TO ENTER ROUNDTABLE Abstract: Itinera is a digital environment for creating and exploring historical narratives that incorporates cartographic visualizations. The project was inspired by the central role that the mobility of people and objects…