The Four Continents: L'Amerique

<SPAN STYLE="font-family:'Helvetica'">The Printed World: Masterpieces of Seventeenth-Century Printmaking<BR/>Joel and Lila Harnett Museum of Art<BR/>February 03 through March 24, 2019<BR/>The iconography of the four continents dates to the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, when Europe’s vision of the world was altered dramatically by the discovery and conquest of the New <BR/>World. In the Baroque era, the series of the four continents enjoyed immense appeal. The allegory was inserted into religious and liturgical settings as well as in political language. They were often interwoven with text, narratives, and stereotypes found in the many personifications of the continents.</SPAN>