出版社：National Centre for Maps and Cartographic Heritage
摘要：The design of cartouches on maps, since their appearance in the 15th c. and until
their simplification in the 19th c., is an added artistic feature of the map, a synoptic and
symbolic version, as it were, of the map itself. Although the artistic beauty of a cartouche's
design is more or less self-evident, as is also its ornamental purpose, nonetheless its
iconography is not as straightforward. The cartouche in Rigas Velestinlis' Charta, published
in Vienna in 1797, and the cartouche in Anthimos Gazis' Pinax, also published in Vienna
three years later in 1800, are extraordinary: they not only present an elaborate and symbolic
narrative of the map according to their composers' ideas and goals, but they also enter into a
dialogue about the nature and the goal of a map, i.e. a dialogue about the map's potential as a
useful educative tool, a map's true didactic force.
