A View of Venice: Portrait of a Renaissance City

Author:   Kristin Love Huffman
Publisher:   Duke University Press
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9781478016533


Pages:   456
Publication Date:   13 February 2024
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Kristin Love Huffman
Publisher:   Duke University Press
Imprint:   Duke University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 25.40cm
Weight:   1.497kg
ISBN:  

9781478016533


ISBN 10:   1478016531
Pages:   456
Publication Date:   13 February 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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This intriguing book guides the reader on a compelling journey around the physical and social milieu of Renaissance Venice. Its magisterial essays invite the viewer to take an imaginary walk around the city's empty streets, as seen in Jacopo de' Barbari's celebrated birds-eye view of 1500. The book guides us step-by-step from the map's stunning artistic virtuosity into the cosmopolitan lives of the people who inhabited the fabric of the city. --Deborah Howard, Professor Emerita, University of Cambridge


“This intriguing book guides the reader on a compelling journey around the physical and social milieu of Renaissance Venice. Its magisterial essays invite the viewer to take an imaginary walk around the city’s empty streets, as seen in Jacopo de’ Barbari’s celebrated birds-eye view of 1500. The book guides us step-by-step from the map’s stunning artistic virtuosity into the cosmopolitan lives of the people who inhabited the fabric of the city.” -- Deborah Howard, Professor Emerita, University of Cambridge “A View of Venice offers an engaging consideration of the ideation, creation, historical significance, idiosyncrasies, and scholarly potential of Jacopo de’ Barbari’s view. A fascinating and valuable collection of research and analysis of Barbari’s remarkable print and of the Venice in which he lived and worked, this volume will greatly interest general readers and specialists alike.” -- Gary M. Radke, Professor Emeritus of Art History, Syracuse University


"“This intriguing book guides the reader on a compelling journey around the physical and social milieu of Renaissance Venice. Its magisterial essays invite the viewer to take an imaginary walk through the city’s empty streets, as seen in Jacopo de’ Barbari’s celebrated bird's-eye view of 1500. The book guides us step-by-step from the map’s stunning artistic virtuosity into the cosmopolitan lives of the people who inhabited the fabric of the city.” -- Deborah Howard, Professor Emerita, University of Cambridge “A View of Venice offers an engaging consideration of the ideation, creation, historical significance, idiosyncrasies, and scholarly potential of Jacopo de’ Barbari’s View. A fascinating and valuable collection of research and analysis of de' Barbari’s remarkable print and of the Venice in which he lived and worked, this volume will greatly interest general readers and specialists alike.” -- Gary M. Radke, Professor Emeritus of Art History, Syracuse University ""One of the most remarkable Venice books in decades, the kind of thorough and detailed study of a city caught in time that scholars can only dream about for most other hinge-points in history. De’ Barbari’s View cost the hefty sum of three florins, and as these scholars make clear, there were plenty of buyers for something that must have seemed borderline miraculous in an era before photography. A View of Venice is the definitive anatomy of that miracle."" -- Steve Donoghue * Open Letters Review *"


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Kristin Love Huffman is an independent scholar of the art, architectural, and urban history of Renaissance Venice and coeditor of Visualizing Venice: Mapping and Modeling Time and Change in a City.

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