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Timeless Venice: Discovering Today's City in a Map 500 Years Old
Timeless Venice Discovering Today's City in a Map 500 Years Old
Author: Mark Robinson
Dating from Europe?s earliest days of printing, Jacopo de?Barbari?s giant map of Venice is both an artistic and technological tour de force. Printed from six wood blocks, its detail is such that we can check features like windows, doorways, and chimney breasts to see many of today?s best-known buildings as they originally looked. Above all, it s...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781873429983
ISBN-10: 1873429983
Publication Date: 1/1/2004
Pages: 58
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Publisher: Pallas Athene
Book Type: Hardcover
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