#  Looking Slowly at Early Modern Maps 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **November 28, 2023** 

 02:30PM - 02:30PM EST 

####  pin\_drop Location 

 **Lamont Library, Forum Room**  



 

 



 

##  [RENAISSANCE STUDIES](/renaissance-studies)

##  SPEAKER: Chet Van Duzer, University of Rochester

 In this two-hour workshop Chet Van Duzer will discuss several early modern maps to demonstrate the value of applying patient contemplation to cartography, provide ideas about the types of conclusions that can be reached through slow looking, and show the richness of early maps as objects for study. Advice on how to study maps slowly will be followed by consultation of historic maps by the workshop participants, with plenty of time for examining the maps together and asking questions. The maps that will be analyzed are:

- Martin Waldseemüller’s world map of 1507
- a French manuscript world map from 1550 (British Library Add. MS 24065)
- an Italian manuscript atlas of nautical charts from the first quarter of the sixteenth century (Huntington Library HM 217)
- an Italian manuscript world map from the early sixteenth century (Huntington Library HM 45)
- the Catalan-Estense world map of c. 1460 (Modena, Biblioteca Estense Universitaria, C.G.A.1)

###  About the Speaker

 Chet Van Duzer is a historian of cartography and a board member of the Lazarus Project at the University of Rochester, which brings multispectral imaging (a technology for recovering information from damaged manuscripts) to cultural institutions around the world. He has published extensively on medieval and Renaissance maps; his recent books include *Henricus Martellus’s World Map at Yale (c. 1491): Multispectral Imaging, Sources, and Influence*, published by Springer in 2019, and *Martin Waldseemüller’s Carta marina of 1516: Study and Transcription of the Long Legends*, published by Springer in 2020. His book *Frames that Speak: Cartouches on Early Modern Maps* was just published by Brill. His current project is on self-portraits by cartographers that appear on maps.



 

 



 

 See also:- [ Seminar ](/event-type/seminar)
- [ Cartography ](/seminars/cartography)
- [ Renaissance Studies ](/seminars/renaissance-studies)
 
 

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