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, After a brief career as an architect, she was appointed to a position in the Department of Art History at the University of South Africa from which she retired at the end of 2004. She has published widely in the fields of literature, architecture, visual culture, art history and aesthetics, Estelle Alma Maré studied literature, architecture, town planning, and art history

, He published an edition of Vignola's Two Rules of Practical Perspective (1583) and is the editor of various volumes of collected essays, among them L'artiste et l'oeuvre à l'épreuve de la perspective (Rome, 2006) and Academies Facing the Question of Technique in Architecture, Late Seventeenth Century, 2008.

, Russel Stafford Viljoen is an historian who specializes in eighteenth-and nineteenth-century South African history, with specific reference to the Khoikhoi communities. He is Associate Professor in the Department of History

P. Dubourg-glatigny and E. Alma, Maré undertook research on VOC mapping at the Cape of Good Hope on an exchange bursary funded by the NRF (South Africa) and the CNRS, 2002. Versions of this paper have been read by E.A. Maré at the First International Conference on Cartography and GIS, pp.4-10, 2006.