photograph courtesy correr museum
Venice:
Correr Museum – The Image of the European City from the Renaissance to the
Enlightenment exhibition. The fascinating context of The Image of the European city from the Renaissance to the
Enlightenment is evoked in this exhibition, at the Correr Museum, until
May 18, through an extraordinary
iconographic repertory comprising over a hundred paintings, prints and drawings from prestigious
public and private, Italian and foreign collections.
Above:
Jacopo de’ Barbari - Venetie MD, 1500,
xilografia.
The Image of the European City from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment.
Ever since the Middle Ages, towns have been a favored subject in European
painting and a means for a state to promote itself and show off its virtues.
The exhibition, curated by Cesare De Seta with the scientific coordination of
Gabriella Belli and the layout by Daniela Ferretti, brings together those
global images of an especially high quality that for centuries were the only or
most persuasive means for showing off the beauty and wealth of Europe’s leading
cities.
Above: Joseph Heintz il Giovane - Pianta della Citta di Udine, c.1650,
oil on canvas.
The Image of the European City from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment. The exhibition starts with Italy, the first to introduce the imago
urbis thanks to the invention of perspective in the early years of the 15th
century, providing a fascinating manifesto of the ambitions of popes, princes
and sovereigns.
Above: Giorgio Fossati – La Corsa dei Fantini in Prato della Valle (detail), 1773
(copy c.1538), oil on canvas.
Giovanni Maria Tamburini – Pianta di Bologna: Bononia docet Mater
Studiorum, C. 1835, oil on canvas.
photograph courtesy correr museum
Bernardino Zambaiti – Bombardamento di Trento, 1703, oil on canvas.
Palmanova, end 16th/early 17th century, ink and watercolor drawing.