Colloquium: Mapping Desire and Conquest: Dudley’s Atlas and Medici Colonial Aspirations
@ Newberry Library
60 W Walton St, Chicago, IL 60610
Opening Wednesday, May 10th, from 4PM - 5PM
Colloquium: Mapping Desire and Conquest: Dudley’s Atlas and Medici Colonial Aspirations
—with Lia Markey (Director of the Center for Renaissance Studies), Suzanne Karr Schmidt (George Amos Poole III Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts) and Niccolò Moronato (Artist)
Art historians Lia Markey and Suzanne Karr Schmidt and artist Niccolò Moronato will discuss one of the Newberry’s treasures from the early modern period, Robert Dudley’s Arcano del Mare (Secrets of the Sea) (1646-1647). Produced in Medici Florence by an English cartographer and ship builder, the enormous three-volume sea atlas documents Medici attempted incursions in South America and reveals the ambitions of a dynasty in decline. This colloquium will present a journey across the historical and the contemporary, reflecting on the role of early modern cartography in changing the perspectives and mindsets of European rulers.
*Co-sponsored by the Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago
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