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The Encompassing City Stuart M. Blumin

The Encompassing City par Stuart M. Blumin

The Encompassing City Stuart M. Blumin


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Résumé

The streetscape 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 book traces earlier forms of urban representation in European art into the sudden coalescence of the new genre in Italy and the Low Countries during the seventeenth century.

The Encompassing City Résumé

The Encompassing City: Streetscapes in Early Modern Art and Culture Stuart M. Blumin

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.

À propos de Stuart M. Blumin

Stuart M. Blumin is Professor of History at Cornell University and Director of Cornell in Washington

Sommaire

List of figures
List of plates
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 The city in Western art: a brief pre-history of vedutismo
2 Stepping into the city: the early vedutisti
3 The encompassing city: emergence of a genre
4 The apogee of vedutismo
5 Piranesi and the turn toward genius
Epilogue: Whistler in Venice
Notes
Index

Informations supplémentaires

GOR013081808
9780719076633
0719076633
The Encompassing City: Streetscapes in Early Modern Art and Culture Stuart M. Blumin
Occasion - Comme neuf
Relié
Manchester University Press
20081001
256
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