A Chronology of the Southland -- 1. Introduction -- I. The Invention of a Southern Continent. 2. Terra Australis in Antiquity and the Middle Ages. 3. Terra Australis in the Early Renaissance. 4. Java la Grande and Magellanica. 5. The Spanish Vision of
the Austral World: Mendana, Quiros, Torres. 6. Exotica in Sixteenth-Century Spain. 7. Art, Science and Exploration in Elizabethan England -- II. The Southern World in the Age of Dutch Expansion: 1606-1756. 8. The Dutch Image of the Southland. 9. Dutch Australian Expeditions: 1606-36. 10. Antony van Diemen and the Great Southland: 1636-45. 11. Art and the Dutch Trading Companies. 12. The Great Southland and the Republic of Letters: Nicolaas Witsen and his Kunstkammer. 13. Epilogue: Dutch Images of the Southland and the Voyage of the Endeavour -- 14. Conclusion.
History of European pictorial images - paintings, maps, drawings, engravings, tapestries and artefacts - associated with the search for the southern continent; images from Java, Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea, South Pacific and Tierra del Fuego; images discussed in the context of the link between art, exploration and science; changes in iconography reflect view of continent as a paradise to that of an inferno.
more...