Picturing European-Asian Encounters in Circa 1600

This paper investigates three modes in which the European-Asian encounter was pictured in circa 1600. First, Netherlandish printed images of the potential fruits of Asian and American trade are explored. In the frontispiece to Abraham Ortelius’ 1579 Theatrum Orbis Terraum atlas, we find five contine...

The International Journal of the Humanities: Annual Review

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