Volume 30, Number 15 · October 13, 1983
The Other Side of the World
By J.H. Elliott
Os Descobrimentos Portugueses e a Europa do Renascimento/Portuguese Discoveries and Renaissance Europe and Culture, Lisbon, 1983
Commissariat for the Seventeenth European Exhibition of Art, Science
The Pacific since Magellan Vol. 1: The Spanish Lake; Vol. 2: Monopolists and Freebooters
by O. H. K. Spate
University of Minnesota Press, Vol. 2, 426 pp., $59.50
Lisbon this summer provided the setting for a great international exhibition—the Council of Europe's seventeenth exhibition of art, science, and culture—devoted to the Portuguese discoveries and Renaissance Europe. The exhibition was skillfully planned to take advantage of the splendid Lisbon waterfront, where houses, churches, and convents jostle for a view of the Tagus as it opens out to join the sea. No other setting could have been more appropriate for an attempt to depict in visual terms how a small medieval state on the remote western fringes of Christendom became a pioneer in overseas navigation and discovery, and how its bold initiative led to the transformation of Europe and the world.
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