I would love to blog about this, I have many more examples, but I don't have time. I'm 42 blogs behind (mostly written, but some have been in limbo for years while I try to relocate one important picture or quote that I've lost track of... they won't get done if I add yet another blog)...
So... I'll post them here...
These drawings are part of a map created by a German who worked as a protestant pastor in the Rhineland and who moved to the Netherlands to work as an engraver.
The map is populated with northern-Lombardic/Swiss/west Bohemian/Bavarian buildings, with saddleback portal gates and Byzantine-style towers, etc., that were partly copied from other maps, but probably also familiar to him when he was growing up in Germany.
You'll notice the labels are in Hebrew. He converted to Judaism after moving to the Netherlands.
So what kind of map is it?
It's a map of Africa—the region believed to be part of the Exodus story of the Bible. He created maps of Egypt and the Levant. Nothing on this map looks particularly African (or Levantine). The nude lady on the crocodile in the bottom right (who also doesn't look African) is the European symbol for Africa:
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It was created in the 17th century, but it's so similar to late 15th-century and 16th-century maps, and illustrates the concept so well that I thought it was worth posting.
People drew what they knew.
So... I'll post them here...
These drawings are part of a map created by a German who worked as a protestant pastor in the Rhineland and who moved to the Netherlands to work as an engraver.
The map is populated with northern-Lombardic/Swiss/west Bohemian/Bavarian buildings, with saddleback portal gates and Byzantine-style towers, etc., that were partly copied from other maps, but probably also familiar to him when he was growing up in Germany.
You'll notice the labels are in Hebrew. He converted to Judaism after moving to the Netherlands.
So what kind of map is it?
It's a map of Africa—the region believed to be part of the Exodus story of the Bible. He created maps of Egypt and the Levant. Nothing on this map looks particularly African (or Levantine). The nude lady on the crocodile in the bottom right (who also doesn't look African) is the European symbol for Africa:
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It was created in the 17th century, but it's so similar to late 15th-century and 16th-century maps, and illustrates the concept so well that I thought it was worth posting.
People drew what they knew.
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