The Encompassing City by Stuart M Blumin

The Encompassing City by Stuart M Blumin

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The streetscape 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 book traces earlier forms of urban representation in European art into the sudden coalescence of the new genre in Italy and the Low Countries during the seventeenth century.

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The Encompassing City by Stuart M Blumin

The streetscape 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 book traces earlier forms of urban representation in European art into the sudden coalescence of the new genre in Italy and the Low Countries during the seventeenth century.
Stuart M. Blumin is Professor of History at Cornell University and Director of Cornell in Washington
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ISBN 13 9780719076633
ISBN 10 0719076633
Title The Encompassing City
Author Stuart M Blumin
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Binding Type Hardback
Publisher Manchester University Press
Year published 2008-10-01
Number of pages 256
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.