[SDI-Europe] Formatting Europe - Mapping a Continent (Exhibition)

[Kate Lance]

http://www.europalia.eu/event.php?id=353&lng=en
Formatting Europe - Mapping a Continent (Exhibition)
11 November 2007 - 8 February 2008
Brussels, Belgium
The Brussels International Map Collectors' Circle (BIMCC, http://www.bimcc.org/) has organized an international conference at the Royal Library, devoted to mapping of Europe. Belgian and other European specialists have highlighted different aspects of European cartography and present the results of their recent historical research.
The European cartographers have depicted Europe throughout the centuries in several ways : allegorically, physically, politically,... Voluntarily or not, they sometimes took liberties with the reality. But this also was changing during the periods, specially relating to state borders. This exhibition shows maps from the Middle Ages till the 20th century. The maps vary in aspect, aim and scale and have only one common feature: their subject. Grouped chronologically, they show the fascinating evolution of the continent and of its cartography.


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