Jacopo de’ Barbari’s View of Venice, a woodcut first printed in the year 1500, presents a bird’s-eye portrait of Venice at its peak as an international hub of trade, art, and culture. An artistic and cartographic masterpiece of the Renaissance, the View depicts Venice as a vibrant, waterborne city interconnected by canals and bridges and filled with ornate buildings, elaborate gardens, and seafaring vessels. The contributors to A View of Venice: Portrait of a Renaissance City draw on a high-resolution digital scan of the over nine-foot-wide composite print to examine the complexities of this extraordinary woodcut and portrayal of early modern Venetian life. The essays show how the View constitutes an advanced material artifact of artistic, humanist, and scientific culture. They also outline the ways the print reveals information about the city’s economic and military power, religious and social infrastructures, and cosmopolitan residents. Featuring methodological advancements in the digital humanities, A View of Venice highlights the reality and myths of a topographically unique, mystical city and its place in the world.
Contributors. Karen-edis Barzman, Andrea Bellieni, Patricia Fortini Brown, Valeria Cafà, Stanley Chojnacki, Tracy E. Cooper, Giada Damen, Julia A. DeLancey, Piero Falchetta, Ludovica Galeazzo, Maartje van Gelder, Jonathan Glixon, Richard Goy, Anna Christine Swartwood House, Kristin Love Huffman, Holly Hurlburt, Claire Judde de Larivière, Blake de Maria, Martina Massaro, Cosimo Monteleone, Monique O’Connell, Mary Pardo, Giorgio Tagliaferro, Saundra Weddle, Bronwen Wilson, Rangsook Yoon
- Cover
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Abbreviations
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue. Story of the Edited Volume / Kristin Love Huffman and Andrea Bellieni
- Plates
- Introduction. The View as an Urban Portrait / Kristin Love Huffman
- I. The View as a Printed Cartographic and Artistic Visualization
- 1. The View of Venice in a Genealogy of City Views and Government Mapping / Karen-edis Barzman
- 2. A City as a World: Jacopo de’ Barbari’s View in 1500 / Piero Falchetta
- 3. A Perspectival Investigation of Jacopo de’ Barbari’s View of Venice / Cosimo Monteleone
- 4. An Artist’s Address Book: Notes on Venice’s Artistic Geography / Giorgio Tagliaferro
- 5. Beyond Venice: At the Margins of the View / Anna Christine Swartwood House
- 6. Vessels of Political Communication / Monique O’Connell
- 7. Navigating the Business of Print in Venice with Jacopo de’ Barbari / Bronwen Wilson
- 8. On the Collection History of the View’s Matrices / Valeria Cafà
- 9. The Graphic Inventions of Jacopo de’ Barbari / Kristin Love Huffman
- 10. Revisiting “lontani et altra fantaxia”: An Eyckian Perspective on Giovanni Bellini and Jacopo de’ Barbari / Mary Pardo
- 11. Jacopo de’ Barbari, a Wandering Court Artist in the North: Changing Perspectives on His Role in Northern Renaissance Art / Rangsook Yoon
- II. The View as a Reflection of Venice and Venetian Life
- 12. Toward the Perfect City: Urban Development in the Quattrocento / Richard Goy
- 13. The Wellhead as an Amenity of Venetian Urban Space / Patricia Fortini Brown
- 14. Hidden in Plain Sight (and Hearing): Venetian Bells and Their Towers / Jonathan Glixon
- 15. Santa Lucia and Corpus Domini at the Turn of the Sixteenth Century: The View and Urban Patterns / Saundra Weddle
- 16. Monastic and Convent Life as a City Phenomenon / Ludovica Galeazzo
- 17. Gendered Space(s) and the View / Holly Hurlburt
- 18. Wifely Mobility in Renaissance Venice / Stanley Chojnacki
- 19. Two Palaces, a Chapel, and an Art Collection on the Grand Canal: The World of Domenico di Piero in Jacopo de’ Barbari’s View of Venice / Giada Damen
- 20. Luxury Goods in Jacopo de’ Barbari’s Venice / Blake de Maria
- 21. “Both by Sea and Land”: Venetian Trade and Retail in the View / Julia A. DeLancey
- 22. Imagining Social and Political Relations in the View: From Piazza San Marco to Murano / Maartje van Gelder and Claire Judde de Larivière
- 23. Cosmopolitanism in Venice and State Strategies / Martina Massaro
- Epilogue. Venice Lost, and Found / Tracy E. Cooper
- Appendix 1. The View and Its Relevance Today: Venice Then and Now / Kristin Love Huffman
- Appendix 2. Anton Kolb’s Copyright Permission and Export License Request for the View of Venice
- Appendix 3. Will of Anton Kolb, October 12, 1541
- Bibliography
- Contributors
- Index
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