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BARCELONA, Spain
18 MARCH '10 - 28 MARCH '10
hulda festival
Exhibition of the Scientific Artworks of Ilhan Koman:
Venue: Hulda Boat, Barcelona.
Art and Science Youth Workshops: "Creating the Nautical Charts of the Middle-Ages"
In the scope of these workshops, children will be invited to discover some examples of portolans owned by the Maritim Museum of Barcelona. Portolans are early modern European navigation charts, dating from the thirteenth century or later, in manuscript, usually with rhumb lines, shorelines and place names. The portolan combined the exact notations of the text of the periplus or pilot book with the decorative illustrations of the conceptual T and O map, but a portolan chart did offer a realistic depiction of the shore and was meant for practical use by a mariner of the period.
In its collection, the Barcelona Maritime Museum possesses beautiful samples of portolans, especially nautical charts and atlases produced by the leading representatives of the Escola Cartogrà fica Mallorquina (Majorca School of Cartography) between the 15th and 17th centuries. This school was the hub of the cartographic activity under the rule of the Crown of Aragon and was at the forefront of the restructuring movement to which the use of the compass for navigation gave rise. Supported by the monarchy, it coincided with the Aragonese and Catalan expansion throughout the Mediterranean.
In the scope of these workshops, children will learn to better understand course lining and compass cards and to decipher geographical and ethographical representations that were used by the cartographer of the Middle-Ages. Children attending the workshops will also be invited to create their own map of Europan costs, and to compare them with the portolans, in order to better figure out how the representations of the world has changed since the Middle-Ages.
In its collection, the Barcelona Maritime Museum possesses beautiful samples of portolans, especially nautical charts and atlases produced by the leading representatives of the Escola Cartogrà fica Mallorquina (Majorca School of Cartography) between the 15th and 17th centuries. This school was the hub of the cartographic activity under the rule of the Crown of Aragon and was at the forefront of the restructuring movement to which the use of the compass for navigation gave rise. Supported by the monarchy, it coincided with the Aragonese and Catalan expansion throughout the Mediterranean.
In the scope of these workshops, children will learn to better understand course lining and compass cards and to decipher geographical and ethographical representations that were used by the cartographer of the Middle-Ages. Children attending the workshops will also be invited to create their own map of Europan costs, and to compare them with the portolans, in order to better figure out how the representations of the world has changed since the Middle-Ages.
With the precious support and help of Museu MarÃtim de Barcelona, the Port of Barcelona, the Consulate General of the Turkish Republic in Barcelona, the Embassy of the Turkish Republic in Madrid and the Municipality of Barcelona.
