Comments on: Mapping the World http://blog.metmuseum.org/penandparchment/2009/06/16/mapping-the-world/ Sun, 19 May 2013 01:45:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Melanie Holcomb http://blog.metmuseum.org/penandparchment/2009/06/16/mapping-the-world/comment-page-1/#comment-112 Melanie Holcomb Tue, 04 Aug 2009 20:01:09 +0000 http://blog.metmuseum.org/penandparchment/?p=1#comment-112 For those of you interested in the Sawley Map, we have now posted an alternative image of it that points out some of the signification places and monuments in English. For those of you interested in the Sawley Map, we have now posted an alternative image of it that points out some of the signification places and monuments in English.

]]> By: dmlle. Katrine Grigotza http://blog.metmuseum.org/penandparchment/2009/06/16/mapping-the-world/comment-page-1/#comment-17 dmlle. Katrine Grigotza Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:47:53 +0000 http://blog.metmuseum.org/penandparchment/?p=1#comment-17 le lundi, le 22e de juin, 2009 Dear Metropolitan Museum and Dr. Melanie Holcomb, ....Brilliant and exquisite. My accolades and my Best Regards to your continuing Hommage to Art and beauty. Cordially, dmlle. Katrine Grigotza private Art Researcher E-mail. kgrigotza@yahoo.ca le lundi, le 22e de juin, 2009

Dear Metropolitan Museum and Dr. Melanie Holcomb,
….Brilliant and exquisite. My accolades and my Best Regards to your continuing
Hommage to Art and beauty.
Cordially,
dmlle. Katrine Grigotza
private Art Researcher
E-mail. kgrigotza@yahoo.ca

]]> By: Sarah Kozlowski http://blog.metmuseum.org/penandparchment/2009/06/16/mapping-the-world/comment-page-1/#comment-15 Sarah Kozlowski Sun, 21 Jun 2009 22:11:35 +0000 http://blog.metmuseum.org/penandparchment/?p=1#comment-15 Thank you Melanie--interesting indeed! I wonder if there was a symbolic motivation behind the placement of the Cyclades at the center...hm. Thank you Melanie–interesting indeed! I wonder if there was a symbolic motivation behind the placement of the Cyclades at the center…hm.

]]> By: Melanie Holcomb http://blog.metmuseum.org/penandparchment/2009/06/16/mapping-the-world/comment-page-1/#comment-12 Melanie Holcomb Sat, 20 Jun 2009 19:20:49 +0000 http://blog.metmuseum.org/penandparchment/?p=1#comment-12 Dear Sarah, That island surrounded by perfect circle of smaller islands are the Cyclades. Their placement right at the center of the map is fascinating, and I suspect it has to do with the mapmaker's aesthetic sense--that a circle belongs at the center. There's a later related map, known as the Psalter Map (British Library, MS Add. 28681), that exploits the idea of central circle more fully and marks that spot as Jerusalem. Dear Sarah,

That island surrounded by perfect circle of smaller islands are the Cyclades. Their placement right at the center of the map is fascinating, and I suspect it has to do with the mapmaker’s aesthetic sense–that a circle belongs at the center. There’s a later related map, known as the Psalter Map (British Library, MS Add. 28681), that exploits the idea of central circle more fully and marks that spot as Jerusalem.

]]> By: Sarah Kozlowski http://blog.metmuseum.org/penandparchment/2009/06/16/mapping-the-world/comment-page-1/#comment-5 Sarah Kozlowski Tue, 16 Jun 2009 17:15:22 +0000 http://blog.metmuseum.org/penandparchment/?p=1#comment-5 I just saw the show this past weekend, and was particularly excited about the Sawley map. Melanie, your point that the map plots out not only topographical but also symbolic space is right on target. It's also helps us discern a late medieval understanding of the Mediterranean as a network that bound together cultural centers like Sicily, Jerusalem, Pisa, and Alexandria. A question: what is the small body of land at the very center of the map--I'm not able to make out the inscription. It looks like a slightly irregular circle with a ring of smaller circles, or islands, surrounding it. Sarah Kozlowski PhD Candidate Department of the History of Art Yale University sarah.kozlowski@yale.edu I just saw the show this past weekend, and was particularly excited about the Sawley map. Melanie, your point that the map plots out not only topographical but also symbolic space is right on target. It’s also helps us discern a late medieval understanding of the Mediterranean as a network that bound together cultural centers like Sicily, Jerusalem, Pisa, and Alexandria.

A question: what is the small body of land at the very center of the map–I’m not able to make out the inscription. It looks like a slightly irregular circle with a ring of smaller circles, or islands, surrounding it.

Sarah Kozlowski
PhD Candidate
Department of the History of Art
Yale University
sarah.kozlowski@yale.edu

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