{"id":1786994,"date":"2019-01-15T09:25:10","date_gmt":"2019-01-15T14:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1786994"},"modified":"2019-01-15T09:25:10","modified_gmt":"2019-01-15T14:25:10","slug":"16th-century-hand-drawn-maps-imitate-the-style-of-printed-maps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2019\/01\/16th-century-hand-drawn-maps-imitate-the-style-of-printed-maps\/","title":{"rendered":"16th-Century Hand-Drawn Maps Imitate the Style of Printed Maps"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Temascaltepec, ca. 1579-1580. Archivo General de Indias. Ministerio de Educaci\u00f3n, Cultura y Deporte, Gobierno de Espa\u00f1a. <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
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Texcaltitl\u00e1n, ca. 1579-1580. Archivo General de Indias. Ministerio de Educaci\u00f3n, Cultura y Deporte, Gobierno de Espa\u00f1a. <\/div> <\/div>
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Tuzantla, ca. 1579-1580. Archivo General de Indias. Ministerio de Educaci\u00f3n, Cultura y Deporte, Gobierno de Espa\u00f1a. <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>\n

Seven maps from late 16th-century Mexico are the focus of a 2018 study by University of Seville researcher Manuel Morato-Moreno (Cartographica<\/em> article<\/a>, press release<\/a>). Part of a series of maps sent back to Spain by local administrators, the maps are hand-drawn, but imitate the style of printed maps: the hatching deliberately evokes woodcuts, while the animals are reminiscent of cartouches, sea monsters and other illustrative elements. But the maps also incorporate Indigenous design elements.<\/p>\n

Although all the maps were done in the European style, they also show some characteristics that suggest the influence of indigenous cartography, like footprints on the routes and eddies in the rivers, in which fish can also be seen on the surface of the water. Having these indigenous conventions in coexistence with European cartographic characteristics suggests an effort to adapt the two cartographic styles to each other. “The authors of these maps might have unconsciously mixed European and native conventions,” the researcher adds.<\/p>\n

In addition, the experts have identified the influence of another renaissance practice which originated in the portolan charts: drawings of figurative scenes of indigenous people and animals of the region, like deer, rabbits, vultures and armadillos. “Possibly the disproportionate representation of these animals is a way of emphasising the animal species that were characteristic of the region, or, as in the case of the armadillo, highlighting those exotic species that were unknown in Spain.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

More at, and via, Atlas Obscura<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Seven maps from late 16th-century Mexico are the focus of a 2018 study by University of Seville researcher Manuel Morato-Moreno (Cartographica article, press release). 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