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.
Woodcuts and engravings of cities and inhabitants of Europe, and those of distant lands, initiated a sudden and pervasive experience with alterity that redefined the relations of Europeans to the world. By condensing the world into pictures, print enabled a radically novel and vicarious experience of others. 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.
Venice was one of the largest cities in Renaissance Europe, a trading crossroads, and a centre of print. The World in Venice shows how Venetian identity came to be envisioned within the growing global context that print constructed for it.
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- Includes "Bibliography" (p. [351]-393) and index
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- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 769/.499453107/07
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 22
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- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
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- 0802087256 9781442682573
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- DG678.235
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- W44 2004eb
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- 1 electronic text (xvii, 406 p.)
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- Canada
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- (CaBNVSL)thg00600932 (OCoLC)244768281 (CaOOCEL)418680
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Table of Contents
- Contents 6
- Acknowledgments 8
- Illustrations 10
- Introduction 22
- 1 From Myth to Metropole: Sixteenth-Century Printed Maps of Venice 42
- 2 Costume and the Boundaries of Bodies 89
- 3 Allegory, Order, and the Singular Event 152
- 4 Reproducing the Individual: Likeness and History in Printed Portrait Books 205
- Conclusion 275
- Notes 286
- Bibliography 370
- Index 414
- A 414
- B 414
- C 415
- D 416
- E 417
- F 417
- G 418
- H 418
- I 418
- J 418
- K 419
- L 419
- M 419
- N 420
- O 420
- P 420
- Q 422
- R 422
- S 422
- T 423
- U 423
- V 423
- W 425
- X 425
- Z 425
