In 'Networked Nation: Mapping German Cities in Sebastian Münster?s 'Cosmographia', Jasper van Putten examines the groundbreaking woodcut city views in the German humanist Sebastian Münster?s 'Cosmographia'. This description of the world, published in Basel from 1544 to 1628, glo…
In 'Networked Nation: Mapping German Cities in Sebastian Münster?s 'Cosmographia', Jasper van Putten examines the groundbreaking woodcut city views in the German humanist Sebastian Münster?s 'Cosmographia'. This description of the world, published in Basel from 1544 to 1628, glo…
Seeing from above: the aerial view in visual culture
"The view from above, or the "birds-eye" view, has become so ingrained in contemporary visual culture that it is now hard to imagine our world without it. It has risen to pre-eminence as a way of seeing, but important questions about its effects and meanings remain unexplored. M…
The hills of Rome: signature of an eternal city
"Rome is 'the city of seven hills'. This book examines the need for the 'seven hills' cliché, its origins, development, impact and borrowing. It explores how the cliché relates to Rome's real terrain and how it is fundamental to the way in which we define this. Its chronological…
Explores the cliché of 'the city of seven hills' and how, since antiquity, it has shaped experience of the city.
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