The Center for Renaissance Studies at the Newberry Library is hosting a virtual talk on “The Art of Renaissance Warfare” on September 17th. “This public conversation explores how the development of gunpowder, stirrups, and new techniques for polishing armor…
When the government of Emperor Charles V called for all the provinces of the Low Countries to record and publish their regional laws, the newly-formed province of Overijssel was unready to do so. That's when a local lawyer named Melchior Winhoff stepped up.
Thought it would come to be well known as a republic, the statesmen and soldiers that fought to establish an independent Dutch state certainly imagined - at first -that their new country would have a sovereign Prince at its head.
I’m a history geek who enjoys geeking out over history with other geeks. In 2019, I hosted the Another Time & Place: Short-Form History Papers Competition at Lilies War to encourage people to get into the historical and anthropological side…
A map of this scale was a new undertaking for me (having completed a smaller three-sheet map of the northern Dutch provinces for last fall’s Queen’s Prize). The work researching and then producing the map was relatively considerable: about a…
Georg Braun (1541-1622) was the editor of the seminal Civitates orbis terrarum, a collection of hundreds of city maps from across Europe. The collection is perhaps best known for the birds-eye perspective used in the maps by prolific late sixteenth…
I stumbled upon Jaromir’s spectacular artwork in late 2017 and was immediately impressed by the fast and loose character of his work. That quality reminded me in some ways of Kekai Kotaki, a prolific fantasy concept artist whose work I…
Scans of both the final watercolors and orginal inks of the map. Download a high-res version of the inked map, or download a high-res scan of the watercolor-painted map. Project Abstract This entry is composed of two versions of a…
Project Abstract This is a map in the style of late sixteenth through early seventeenth century cartographers from western Europe such as Sebastian Münster, Geradus Mercator, Fernão Vaz Dourado, John Speed, John Norden, and those mapmakers commissioned by Abraham Ortellius.…
