Research Catalog

Title

Portraits of the city : representing urban space in later medieval and early modern Europe / edited by Katrien Lichtert, Jan Dumolyn and Maximiliaan P.J. Martens.

Publication

Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols, ©2014.

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Additional Authors

• Lichtert, Katrien.
• Dumolyn, Jan.
• Martens, Maximiliaan P. J.

Description

vi, 199 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color); 26 cm.

Summary

During the last decades, representations of medieval and early modern urban space have witnessed an increasing popularity as objects of study within the historical disciplines. Scholars with different backgrounds investigate urban landscapes in various forms and using a wide range of media. In general, such portraits of the city cover different types of visual and written documents. The twelve essays gathered in this book all cover specific types of such portraits, ranging from historiographical texts and archival record, over drawings, prints and paintings to maps and real urban architectural settings. Moreover, the interdisciplinary scope results in an ample compilation of various innovative methodologies, currently applied in the fields of study and disciplines addressed in the book. Portraits of the City provides a representative overview of the current state of knowledge and is in this way a relevant contribution to the international debate on representations of the city. --Provided by publisher.

Series Statement

Studies in European urban history (1100-1800) ; 31

Uniform Title

Studies in European urban history (1100-1800) ; 31.

Subject

• Cities and towns, Medieval > History
• Cities and towns, Medieval
• Stadt
• Darstellung
• Cities and towns > History
• Europa

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Additional Formats (note)

• Also available in an electronic version.

Contents

Images, maps, texts: reading the meanings of the later medieval and early modern city / Katrien Lichtert, Jan Dumolyn & Maximiliaan P.J. Martens -- The digital thematic deconstruction of historic town views and maps / Bram Vannieuwenhuyze & Elien Vernackt -- A portrait unmasked: the iconology of the birds'-eye view of Antwerp by Virgilius Bononiensis (1565) as a source for typological research of private buildings in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Antwerp / Petra Maclot -- Eighteenth-century Prague: Joseph Daniel Huber's 'images' of the capital city of Boehemia / Eva Chodějovská & Jiří Krejčí -- The image of the city quantified: the serial analysis of pictorial representations of urbanity in early Netherlandish art (1420-1520) / Jelle de Rock -- The artist, the city and the urban theatre: Pieter Bruegel's 'Battle between Shrovetide and Lent' (1559) reconsidered / Katrien Lichtert -- Bramante in the north: imag(in)ing antiquity in the Low Countries (1500-1539) / Oliver G. Kik -- Pavie, Bruxelles, Barcelone et Tunis: quelques portraits de villes dans les tapisseries de Charles Quint / Cecilia Paredes -- Topography and mythological transfiguration in two sixteenth-century Flemish cityscapes of Genoa: a painting by Jan Massys and an etching by Anton van den Wyngaerde / Maria Clelia Galassi -- Describing and 'mapping the town' using iconographic and literary sources: cities in the late middle ages in Italy / Silvia Beltramo -- A Venetian city view of Constantinople: mapping the city / Nirit Ben-Aryeh Debby -- 'There we will see many views that will inspire us to create landscapes': the use of sixteenth-century Netherlandish artists' Roman vedute as historical sources / Sarah van Ooteghem -- Lux Patentissima and world piazza: easrly modern diplomatic portraits of Rome / Megan K. Williams.

ISBN

• 2503552269
• 9782503552262
• 9782503552590 (canceled/invalid)

OCLC

• ocn879584095
• 879584095
• SCSB-1789069

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library