The World in Venice : Print, the city, and early modern identity / Bronwen Wilson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wilson, Bronwen, author.

Series:

Studies in book and print culture.

Studies in Book and Print Culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art.

Art and society.

Art and society--Italy--Venice--History--16th century.

Venice (Italy)--Civilization--To 1797.

Venice (Italy).

Venice (Italy)--In art.

Genre:

History.

Art.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 490 pages) : illustrations.

Other Title:

Print, the city and early modern identity

Place of Publication:

Toronto, ON : University of Toronto Press, 2017.

Summary:

"Positing a dynamic relationship between print culture and social experience, Bronwen Wilson's The World in Venice focuses on the printed image during a century of profound transformation. City views, costume illustrations, events, and portraits of locals and foreigners are brought together to show how printmakers responded to an expanding image of the world in Renaissance Venice, and how, in turn, prints influenced the ways in which individuals thought about themselves." "Wilson explores the overlapping and evolving relations between space, vision, print, and identity, and engages with current scholarly debates concerning ethnicities, gender and geography, copies and originals, travel, nationhood, fashion, urban life, visuality, and the body."--Jacket

Contents:

From myth to metropole : sixteenth-century printed maps of Venice

Costume and the boundaries of bodies

Allegory, order, and the singular event

Reproducing the individual : likeness and history in printed portrait books.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [351]-393) and index.

Description based on: online resource; title from PDF information screen (University of Toronto Press, viewed November 15, 2022).

ISBN:

9781442682573

1442682574

OCLC:

1385448736

Publisher Number:

2027/heb32853 hdl