Professional paper

The Aesthetics in Cartography from Antiquity to the Renaissance

Branko Puceković ; State Geodetic Administration, Zagreb, Croatia

Abstract

Aesthetic features of maps are essential for cartographers that make new, original work. It is expected from the map to meet customers' needs in terms of content, completeness, accuracy and completeness but it is also important an aesthetics or beauty in the eye of the maps beholder that evokes a feeling of comfort and satisfaction. The experience of beauty, the inclusion of our emotions (feelings) in active observation maps, is the theme of which is not sufficiently written in the literature. Maps of the world of ancient civilizations were circular form without scales. An intention of the author is not only to be complete maps in content but also aesthetically designed using the colours for land and sea. Each new civilization took over the skills and knowledge of previous civilizations. As a role model and an inexhaustible source is used philosophy, science and art of ancient Greece. This article gives a brief overview of aesthetics as a philosophical concept of ancient Greek's thinkers to the early 16th century. Philosophers have always wondered: where is the source of beauty, whether it is objective or subjective, by which is aesthetic judgement conditioned? Aesthetics is the philosophy of beauty. In this article are briefly described some famous world maps of ancient civilizations as well as some of the philosophers who have contributed to the philosophical thoughts about aesthetics.

Keywords

cartography; map; aesthetics; philosophy; art

Hrčak ID:

156884

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/156884

Publication date:

25.3.2016.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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