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Indepth Arts News:
"Images of Paradise: Views from the Age of Exploration"
2000-03-18 until 2000-06-18
Peabody Essex Museum
Salem, MA,
USA United States of America
In the late eighteenth century, the energy of the Enlightenment spawned
maritime voyages aimed at understanding more about the cultures and
natural world beyond Europe. The museums collection of maritime art and
history vividly depict scenes from those voyages, including three by the
British explorer Captain James Cook. An exhibition opening March 17,
Images of Paradise, showcases about fifty such prints that bring these
voyages to life.
The prints visually document the cultural exchanges that took place when
European explorers Cook, La Perouse, Otto von Kotzebue, and Dumont
dUrville-and their teams of astronomers, natural scientists, and artists-arrived
in places like Tahiti, Hawaii, and New Zealand. In some cases, they were the
first Europeans ever seen by the people of those lands. To many islanders,
the Europeans appeared to have landed from another world. Images, the
newest rotating element of the museums Odyssey exhibition, runs through
June 18.
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