The Encompassing City: Streetscapes in Early Modern Art and Culture

by Stuart M. Blumin

The streetscape - the closely observed, faithfully rendered view of the city's streets, squares, canals, buildings and people - was a new artistic genre of the early modern era, a period in which the city itself was assuming new forms and taking on new roles in Europe and America. This unique book reopens the window of the early city view makers by tracing earlier forms of urban representation in European art into the sudden coalescence of the new...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0719076633
• ISBN13: 9780719076633
• Release Date: December 2008
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 233 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.7" x 9.5"