Resumen de Christoph Jamnitzer's "Neuw Grottessken Buch", cosmography, and early modern ornament
Prefaced by a narrative about the cosmographo Christopher Columbus, Chris- toph Jamnitzer’s Neuw Grotteßken Buch (1610) offers an important means to understand how the art of decorative printmaking was construed in terms of contemporary cosmography. By studying the book’s grotesque imagery in light of the language of its introductory text, it is possible to think about orna- ment in its early seventeenth-century author’s terms, and to reflect on the genre outside the problems of style and function that have preoccupied schol- ars since the nineteenth century. Christoph’s book provides access to features of a previously overlooked discourse on early modern ornament.
