The Four Points of the Compass: North and South, East and West

Jerry Brotton

Allen Lane.

<p>Set against the backdrop of war, revolution, and regicide, and moving from London to Venice, Mantua, Madrid, Paris and the Low Countries, Jerry Brotton's colourful and critically acclaimed book explores the formation and dispersal of King Charles I's art collection. Following a remarkable and unprecedented Parliamentary Act for 'The sale of the late king's goods', Cromwell's republican regime sold off nearly 2,000 paintings, tapestries, statues and drawings in an attempt to settle the dead king's enormous debts and raise money for the Commonwealth's military forces. Brotton recreates the extraordinary circumstances of this sale, in which for the first time ordinary working people were able to handle and own works by the great masters. He also examines the abiding relationship between art and power, revealing how the current Royal Collection emerged from this turbulent period, and paints its own vivid and dramatic picture of one of the greatest lost collections in English history.\n'A rip-roaring slice of seventeenth-century England...Readable history at its best' Kate Mosse, author of "Labyrinth "</p>

The Sale of the Late King's Goods Charles 1 and his Art Collection

Arts & Photography

Painting

Pan.

Great Maps The world's masterpieces explored and explained

DK Smithsonian

<p>Jerry brotton is the presenter of the acclaimed bbc4 series maps: power, plunder and possession here he tells the story of our world through mapsthroughout history, maps have been fundamental in shaping our view of the world, and our place in it but far from being purely scientific objects, world maps are unavoidably ideological and subjective, intimately bound up with the systems of power and authority of particular times and places mapmakers do not simply represent the world, they construct it out of the ideas of their agein this scintillating book, jerry brotton examines the significance of 12 maps - from the mystical representations of ancient history to the satellite-derived imagery of today he vividly recreates the environments and circumstances in which each of the maps was made, showing how each conveys a highly individual view of the world - whether the jerusalem-centred christian perspective of the 14th century hereford mappa mundi or the peters projection of the 1970s which aimed to give due weight to the third worldalthough the way we map our surroundings is once more changing dramatically, brotton argues that maps today are no more definitive or objective than they have ever been - but that they continue to make arguments and propositions about the world, and to recreate, shape and mediate our view of it readers of this book will never look at a map in quite the same way again</p>

A History of the World in Twelve Maps

History

Historical Study & Educational Resources

Global Interests: Renaissance Art Between East and West (Picturing History)

In this groundbreaking, highly provocative examination of the Renaissance, Jerry Brotton and Lisa Jardine raise questions about the formation of cultural identity in Western Europe. Through an analysis of the circulation of art and luxury objects, the authors challenge the view that Renaissance culture defined itself in large part against an exotic, dangerous, always marginal East. Featuring more than seventy illustrations, including many in color and some published for the first time, their book provides fascinating insights into the works of Pisanello, Leonardo, Dürer, Holbein, and Titian. Global Interests explores the trade in portrait medals, tapestries, and equestrian art, all items that Brotton and Jardine demonstrate were markers of power and influence in both the West and the East. The authors reveal that this trade represented a remarkably equal exchange between Renaissance Europe and the Ottoman East. Their findings lead them to argue that the East, and in particular the Ottoman Empire of Mehmet the Conqueror and Suleiman the Magnificent, was not the antithetical "other" to the emergence of a Western European identity in the sixteenth century. Instead, Paris, Venice, and London were linked with Istanbul and the East through networks of shared political and commercial interests. By showing that the traditional view of Renaissance culture is misleading, the authors offer a more truly global understanding of historical experience.

Politics & Social Sciences

Lisa Jardine

Anthropology

Reaktion Books Ltd.

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