Everything are fixations! Describe the world

Abstract

This article tries to problematize, from the evidence of the proliferation of (visual) maps during the fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries, the entrance of imagery artifacts (not only maps, but images in general), hitherto unspecified in relation to textual sources, in a culture that historically finds itself strongly dominated by writing. The question is, after all, what made this event (of the proliferation of images) possible? What is sought, therefore, is to analyze what changes are perceived in the epistemological status of images in the production of knowledge from, especially, the Renaissance period.