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... as a representation of Venetian society around 1500, considering buildings and spaces as embodiments of the population. It attempts to reconstruct the many social and economic interactions as well as the political relations and tensions that constituted the Venetian state. It also shows how the View highlights...

... Chapter 1 evaluates Jacopo de’ Barbari’s View of Venice in terms of earlier city views and a near-contemporary innovation in cartography—the Venetian state’s decision to systematically collect quantitative and qualitative geospatial data about its territorial holdings and visualize them...

...The <italic>View</italic> as a Printed Cartographic and Artistic Visualization Chapter 1 evaluates Jacopo de’ Barbari’s View of Venice in terms of earlier city views and a near-contemporary innovation in cartography—the Venetian state’s decision to systematically collect quantitative...

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... , Thomas Coryat stated of the Venetian empire: “All these territories both by sea and land do yield them . . . exceeding great revenue.” Chapter 21 explores how the View illuminates a variety of aspects of the lucrative mercantile activity for which Venice was so famous. This stunning print maps...

... Writing some hundred years after the publication of Jacopo de’ Barbari and Anton Kolb’s celebrated View of Venice , Thomas Coryat stated of the Venetian empire: “All these territories both by sea and land do yield them . . . exceeding great revenue.” Chapter 21 explores how the View...

... presence within the Ghetto, established in 1516. In this way, the state simultaneously welcomed non-Venetian communities and managed and controlled their presence. Jews Ghetto foreigners ...