Imagine unfurling a parchment map, its edges worn from the hands of explorers past—this is the allure of Baroque period maps. These cartographic gems are not just navigational tools but storied canvases, teeming with the artistry and ambition of an era that reshaped the world.

Pinned across Visscher’s iconic seventeenth-century map are essays about key themes and objects. Together, they articulate a new definition of “Baroque” art that moves beyond the …

Home » Harvard Map Collection. Going for Baroque: The Iconography of the Ornamental Map. Introduction; Visscher 1690; Nolin 1767; Japan 1850; Visscher 1652; de Fer 1713; Reelant 1740; Seutter 1760; Schenk 1758; Visscher 1675; Hondius …

It was closely modeled on Willem Blaeu’s wall map of 1608, America quarta pars orbis, which included many of the same city views and images of native peoples. In both cases, the views and figures are primarily drawn from Theodore de Bry’s illustrations in his collections of …

High Baroque, c.1625–c.1660 The exuberant trend in Italian art was best represented by Bernini and Borromini in architecture, by Bernini in sculpture, and by da Cortona in painting. The classicizing mode characterized the work of the expatriate painters Poussin and Claude Lorrain.

Map of Baroque Europe. Chiarascuro.

The Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson. The Baroque Cycle, Neal Stephenson’s award-winning series, spans the late 17th and early 18th centuries, combining history, adventure, science, invention, piracy, and alchemy into one sweeping tale.

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When Johannes de Ram designed this map in the late 17th century, Amsterdam was the center of a global trading network and the wealthiest city in the world. De Ram takes great pains to emphasize the magnitude of the city’s achievements.

Baroque Without Boundaries, a digital mapping intervention and website, charts the increased contact among cultures during the late sixteenth-eighteenth centuries through the visual and material objects that originated from various sites of production.