Bodies and Maps

Maryanne Cline Horowitz, Ph.D. (1970), is Professor of History, Occidental College, and Associate, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, University of California, Los Angeles. She won the Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural History of the American Philosophical Society for her Seeds of Virtue and Knowledge (Princeton, 1998), and served as Editor-in-Chief of the New Dictionary of the History of Ideas (Charles Scribner's Sons, 2005).Louise Arizzoli, Ph.D. (2013) is an Instructional Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Mississippi. She has published on the iconography of the Four Continents in the arts and on the history of collections and the art market, including “James Hazen Hyde and the Allegory of the Four Continents: A Research Collection for an Amateur Art Historian” (The Journal for the History of Collections, 2013).

• AcknowledgementsList of IllustrationsNotes on the EditorsNotes on the Contributors1 Introduction (1): Rival Interpretations of Continent PersonificationsMaryanne Cline Horowitz2 Introduction (2): Allegories of the Four Continents Today: Assessing Contemporary ContributionsLouise ArizzoliPart 1: Personifications of the Continents and Issues of Race and Gender3 Gender and Race in the Personification of the Continents in the Early Modern Period: Building EurocentrismMichael Wintle4 Exotic Female (and Male) Continents: Early Modern Fourfold Division of HumanityMaryanne Cline HorowitzPart 2: Cartographical Origins of Early Continent Personification5 The Pre-History of the Personification of Continents on Maps: Earth, Ocean, and the Sons of NoahChet Van Duzer6 Magi, Winds, Continents: Dark Skin and Global Allegory in Early Modern ImagesPaul H.D. KaplanPart 3: Personifications of the World in Italian Frescoes7 Casting the Continents: Sacred History and Spiritual Odyssey in the Camposanto of PisaHilary Anne Haakenson8 Portraits of the World – The Four Continents at Palazzo Farnese in Caprarola: The Figurative Code, Sources and ComparisonsElisa Antonietta DanielePart 4: Continent Personifications in Maps and Book Illustration9 Why were there no Continental Allegories in Renaissance Venice? The Amerasian Personifications of Giuseppe RosaccioElizabeth Horodowich10 Worlds Apart: The Four Continents and the Civitates Orbis TerrarumMark Rosen11 When Allegory Met History: Allegories of the Continents on Costume-Book Title Pages in the Late Sixteenth CenturyAnn Rosalind JonesPart 5: Popularization of Continent Personifications in the Eighteenth Century12 The Visible Church – The Discourse on an Ecclesia Triumphans and the Four Continents in Parish Churches of Baroque Southern GermanyMarion Romberg13 The Rearing Horse and the Kneeling Camel: Continental Ceramics and Europe’s Race to ModernityBenjamin Schmidt14 Collecting the Four Continents: James Hazen Hyde (1876–1959), an American in ParisLouise Arizzoli15 Afterword: Ornament and the Fabrication of Early Modern WorldsBronwen WilsonIndex Nominum