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Published: 05 December 2023
DOI: 10.1215/9781478023807-001
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2380-7
... As an urban portrait, Jacopo de’ Barbari’s View of Venice describes the city’s unique forma urbis as it celebrates Venice and its architectural monuments. The composite bird’s-eye view permits more of the city to be seen, and visual enhancements and optical alterations enliven and enrich...
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
... , for which the heads encircling the Old World represent and indicate the cardinal directions. Similarly, the View depicts Venice as the fulcrum of the world—not only a city-world but the city-world of Renaissance Europe. The urban space of Venice is conceived as a realistic portrait of the city...
Published: 05 December 2023
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2380-7
... the cardinal directions. Similarly, the View depicts Venice as the fulcrum of the world—not only a city-world but the city-world of Renaissance Europe. The urban space of Venice is conceived as a realistic portrait of the city and as a metaphor for the space of geography; analysis of some peculiarities...
Published: 29 April 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374510-011
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7451-0
... as the modern African self-fashioning of their urban sitters, giving the portraits a degree of aesthetic autonomy that surpasses mere documentation and creates a striking alternative to the “othering” produced by colonial representation, the chapter also addresses the diasporic reception context as a liminal...
Book: Listening to Images
Published: 17 March 2017
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373582-003
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7358-2
... of rural Africans in the Eastern Cape with early twentieth-century studio portraits of African Christians in South African urban centers. These images visualize a tense grammar of colonization and black self-fashioning, and the tense relations of photographic subjects to the ethnographic gazes engendered...
Published: 05 December 2023
DOI: 10.1215/9781478023807-016
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2380-7
... The Venetian lagoon’s geography isolated the city’s earliest convent complexes, but over time, networks of bridges and calli ultimately wove these monastic houses into the urban fabric. In Venice, as in most Italian cities, almost all convents founded during the fifteenth and sixteenth...
Published: 05 December 2023
DOI: 10.1215/9781478023807-013
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2380-7
... De’ Barbari’s legendary View represents the culmination of well over a century of urban development and refinement. During this period, Venice’s population grew, its fabric became ever denser, its palazzi ever more grandiose, refined, and imposing. The city also expanded physically by means...
Published: 05 December 2023
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2380-7
...The <italic>View</italic> as a Reflection of Venice and Venetian Life De’ Barbari’s legendary View represents the culmination of well over a century of urban development and refinement. During this period, Venice’s population grew, its fabric became ever denser, its palazzi ever more...
Published: 05 December 2023
DOI: 10.1215/9781478023807-005
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2380-7
... Considering that the author of the View of Venice was Venetian, the printed representation of the city can be understood as a reflection of its form in relation to its urban function, especially as experienced from within its confines. As a built-in citizen, the author is somewhat embodied...
Published: 05 December 2023
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2380-7
... convents architecture urban history ...
Published: 05 December 2023
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2380-7
... urban development land reclamation renovatio urbis ...
Published: 29 April 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374510-010
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7451-0
... of such practitioners, as well as the modern African self-fashioning of their urban sitters, giving the portraits a degree of aesthetic autonomy that surpasses mere documentation and creates a striking alternative to the “othering” produced by colonial representation, the chapter also addresses the diasporic reception...
Published: 23 February 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478059257-002
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5925-7
... that enslavement remained the dominant social association of visibly Black peoples in urban centers. Enslaved African domestics served as the face of enslaving families in public spaces. In turn, enslaving households wielded photographs and portraits to further intertwine their images together. This chapter...
Published: 23 February 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478059257-004
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5925-7
..., this chapter argues that enslavement remained the dominant social association of visibly Black peoples in urban centers. Enslaved African domestics served as the face of enslaving families in public spaces. In turn, enslaving households wielded photographs and portraits to further intertwine their images...
Published: 05 December 2023
DOI: 10.1215/9781478023807-004
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2380-7
... Jacopo de’ Barbari’s View of Venice , also known as Venetie MD , established a turning point in the history of urban mapping, attesting to the great skill achieved by artists and printers of the lagoon at the beginning of the sixteenth century. Scholars have long deliberated about the nature...
Published: 05 December 2023
DOI: 10.1215/9781478023807-021
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2380-7
... Jacopo de Barbari’s View of Venice is rightfully celebrated as one of the most comprehensive representations of an early modern European city, and perhaps the most comprehensive. Yet the View offers more than a record of Venice’s urban environment. Rather, it serves as both a key record...
Published: 05 December 2023
DOI: 10.1215/9781478023807-014
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2380-7
Published: 05 December 2023
DOI: 10.1215/9781478023807-017
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2380-7
... is not solely a spiritual and secluded world but a dynamic force that shapes the urban fabric. monastic communities socioeconomic activities land reclamation ...
Published: 09 February 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375982-002
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7598-2
... This chapter analyzes street photography, one of the most popular contemporary photographic portrait forms across black urban communities in the United States and Jamaica. In street photography clients pose for Polaroids or digital pictures before makeshift hand-painted photographic backdrops...
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