The streetscape - the closely observed, faithfully rendered view of the city's streets, squares, canals, buildings and people - was a new artistic genre of the early modern era, a period in which the city itself was assuming new forms and taking on new roles in Europe and America. This unique book reopens the window of the early city view makers by tracing earlier forms of urban representation in European art into the sudden coalescence of the new genre in Italy and the Low Countries during the middle years of the seventeenth century. It explores the rapid expansion and diffusion of the genre through the eighteenth century, its appeal to such artists as Canaletto, Bernardo Bellotto, Francesco Guardi, and Giovanni Battista Piranesi, and its embrace of a culture of secular improvement more commonly understood through the writings of Enlightenment philosophes. To examine the long history of the genre is to learn much about the early modern city, and to rediscover many beautiful and long-forgotten works of art. -- .
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Manchester University Press
ISBN-13
9780719076633
eBay Product ID (ePID)
95573417
Product Key Features
Book Title
The Encompassing City: Streetscapes in Early Modern Art and Culture
Author
Stuart M. Blumin
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Publication Year
2008
Genre
Art & Culture
Number of Pages
256 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
240mm
Item Width
170mm
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Stuart M. Blumin
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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