Annonavi Barocco: August 2015

Thursday, August 13, 2015

"For I dare not take it upon me to speak with my blabbering, fleshly tongue of the work that belongs..."

“For I dare not take it upon me to speak with my blabbering, fleshly tongue of the work that belongs to God alone; and, to put it briefly, even though I dared so to speak I would not wish to.”

- Chapter XXVI of The Cloud of Unknowing (14th century)
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A lady and gentleman of Goa, from ‘La galerie agreable du...

A lady and gentleman of Goa, from ‘La galerie agreable du monde… Tome premier des Indes Orientales.’, published by Pieter van der Aa, Leyden, c. 1725

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Tupinamba Indians Dancing, by John White (1540-1593)

Tupinamba Indians Dancing, by John White (1540-1593)

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Wednesday, August 12, 2015

Like the giant gold-digging ants Herodotus described in the...

Like the giant gold-digging ants Herodotus described in the fifth century BC or this 16th-century depiction of shipwrecked Portuguese sailors battling giant crabs in the Indian Ocean, the fantastic, the strange and the astonishing have always been ascribed to whatever lands were little-known and distant. For Europeans, this was the East.

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Departure from Lisbon for Brazil, the East Indies and America,...

Departure from Lisbon for Brazil, the East Indies and America, engraving from c.1592 by Theodor de Bry (Flemish, 1528-1598), illustration in America Tertia Pars.

Location: Service Historique de la Marine, Vincennes.

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This detail of Macau in the late 1500s by Theodore de...

This detail of Macau in the late 1500s by Theodore de Bry reveals Westerners being carried in palanquins or walking through town accompanied by servants with umbrellas. The inner harbor is busy with Western ships.

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Tuesday, August 11, 2015

Engraving by Theodore de Bry after John White’s...

Engraving by Theodore de Bry after John White’s watercolour, from Thomas Hariot’s

A briefe and true report of the new found land of Virginia (1590)

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Coastline of Brazil, according to the Dieppe school of...

Coastline of Brazil, according to the Dieppe school of mapmakers

16th century

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Frans Post “Brazilian Landscape With Anteater”...

Frans Post

“Brazilian Landscape With Anteater” (1649)

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Monday, August 10, 2015

Brazilian Landscape, by Frans Jansz. Post, 1652 (Rijksmuseum). A...

Brazilian Landscape, by Frans Jansz. Post, 1652 (Rijksmuseum). A sugar plantation can be seen in the distance.

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Illustrated title page for ‘Historia Naturalis Brasiliae,’ a...

Illustrated title page for ‘Historia Naturalis Brasiliae,’ a 17th century scientific work on the flora, fauna, and people of Brazil.

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"Then perhaps it will be [God’s] will to send out a ray of spiritual light, piercing this cloud..."

“Then perhaps it will be [God’s] will to send out a ray of spiritual light, piercing this cloud of unknowing between you and him, and he will show you some of his secrets, of which man may not or cannot speak. Then you shall feel your affection all aflame with the fire of his love, far more than I know how to tell you or may or wish to at this time.”

- Chapter XXVI of The Cloud of Unknowing (14th century)
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