Civil and Corrupt Asia
Image and Text in the Itinerario and the Icones of Jan Huygen Van Linschoten
128 pages, 32 halftones, 1 line drawing, 1 table 10-1/4 x 9-1/2
©
2002
Cloth $51.00
ISBN: 9780226847009
Published September 2002
Foreword
Introduction
The credibility of the curious traveller
The Icones 'drawn from life'?
The Icones as a depiction of the hierarchy of civility in Asia
The Icones as a series of instructive and edifying images
Some characteristics of this instructive and edifying series
Did Karel van Mander devise the Icones?
Notes
Bibliography
Icones Habitus Gestusque Indorum ac Lusitanorum
The plates with a translation of the Latin texts
Index
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