"I wonder why it is that we love maps so much. I think in part it has to do with the fact that it allows us to be God for a minute."
Metropolitan Museum of Art medieval art curator Melanie Holcomb talks about how maps help her make sense of the world.
Connections: Maps
Medieval art curator Melanie Holcomb talks about how maps help her make sense of the world.
Melanie Holcomb
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Melanie Holcomb
Curator, Department of Medieval Art and The Cloisters
Curator, Department of Medieval Art and The Cloisters
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Japan
14th century
Xu Yang
dated 1770
Gerhard Emmoser
1579
Walker Evans
1938
Walker Evans
February 15–23, 1938
Marshallese people
19th–early 20th century
Multiple artists/makers
May 1540
Multiple artists/makers
1746
Joseph Mallord William Turner
1825
Albrecht Dürer
1515
Johannes Vermeer
ca. 1662–63
‘Umar ibn Yusuf ibn ‘Umar ibn ‘Ali ibn Rasul al-Muzaffari
dated 690 AH/1291 CE
Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia)
1445
Spanish
ca. 1180
Luba
19th–20th century