Mirror of the earth : the world landscape in sixteenth-century Flemish painting
Flemish world landscapes, which depict extensive panoramas seen in bird's-eye perspective, were produced in large numbers, chiefly at Antwerp, during the sixteenth century. In Mirror of the earth, Walter Gibson presents a comprehensive study of the world landscape, establishing it as a distinct pictorial type and analyzing it within the artistic and intellectual milieu in which it flourished. We learn that far from being a medieval anachronism, as some scholars have insisted, the world landscape was very much a product of its time, associated with contemporary advances in cartography and reflecting a Renaissance view of the world and of man's relationship to it
Print Book, English, ©1989
Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J., ©1989