The World in Venice : : Print, the City, and Early Modern Identity / / Bronwen Wilson.

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 s...

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Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2017]
©2004
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Series:Studies in Book and Print Culture
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Physical Description:1 online resource (490 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Illustrations
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. From Myth to Metropole: Sixteenth-Century Printed Maps of Venice
  • Chapter 2. Costume and the Boundaries of Bodies
  • Chapter 3. Allegory, Order, and the Singular Event
  • Chapter 4. Reproducing the Individual: Likeness and History in Printed Portrait Books
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index