Maps as Art: Using Digital Media to Bring Art & Cartography to Life

Although we currently live in a world in which maps serve the sole purpose of displaying information as quickly and accurately as possible, Dutch maps in the seventeenth century instead served as an artistic display of wealth, intellect, and cultural capital. Dutch mapmakers would employ designers, engravers, and artists to create products that were, first and foremost, aesthetically pleasing. These maps would be hand painted, bound in personally embroidered atlases, and preserved in gold display cases. The study of antique maps through an art historical lens has grown increasingly over the la... Mehr ...