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By Kristin Love Huffman
Published: 05 December 2023
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2380-7
... Ptolemy geography urban portraits ...
Published: 05 December 2023
DOI: 10.1215/9781478023807-003
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2380-7
... Chapter 2 argues that the View of Venice is surprisingly new compared to portraits of cities produced during the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. In it, Venice is surrounded by the heads of the principal winds, a concept borrowed from the world maps of Ptolemy’s Geography...
Published: 05 December 2023
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2380-7
... compared to portraits of cities produced during the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. In it, Venice is surrounded by the heads of the principal winds, a concept borrowed from the world maps of Ptolemy’s Geography , for which the heads encircling the Old World represent and indicate...