File:Clevelandart 1949.565.jpg
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[edit]Jacopo de' Barbari: View of Venice | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Object type | version, edition or translation / print | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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By the end of the 15th century, Venice had emerged as the major printing center in Europe, where books were printed in various languages to be shipped around the world. The city also became the great emporium for prints, and the woodcut developed beyond its humble origins as a popular art for simple pious imagery, playing cards, and later for book illustration. View of Venice epitomizes this new ambitious scope for the woodcut. This monumental print can be compared in scale only to a mural decoration and presumably served as a less expensive surrogate for paintings. The six sheets that make up the design would have been pasted either onto a canvas or the wall itself, resulting in the survival of only 12 impressions like this one, and only 3 in America. There are eleven known impressions of the first state. The goal of the print was to depict Venice as seen from above. No single vantage point would have been sufficient, so a large team of surveyors climbed various towers and tall buildings to record small sections of the city. These individual views were combined to form the map which follows a single, though inconsistent, system of perspective. Unprecedented for its exactness of detail and difficulty of execution, View of Venice represents the first attempt to render the image of a city according to the laws of geometry. The view also highlights the seafaring trade activities of Venice, depicting Mercury, god of commerce, presiding over the city, while Neptune, god of the seas, keeps watch over the entrance to the city's Grand Canal. The first state showing the Campanile in Piazza San Marco with the temporary flat roof after a fire in 1489. In the second state the block was altered to take account of the restoration work done in 1511-4 and the date 1500 ("MD") was removed. |
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Date | 1500 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medium | woodcut print from six blocks on six sheets of paper, 1st state | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dimensions |
height: 132.7 cm (52.2 in) ; width: 277.5 cm (109.2 in) dimensions QS:P2048,+132.7U174728 dimensions QS:P2049,+277.5U174728 |
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institution QS:P195,Q657415 |
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not on view |
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Accession number |
1949.565 (Cleveland Museum of Art) |
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Place of creation | Italy, early 16th Century | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Credit line | Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
References | https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1949.565 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Source/Photographer | https://clevelandart.org/art/1949.565 |
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Author | Chief Photographer, Howard Agriesti |
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Credit/Provider | Howard Agriesti, Cleveland Museum of Art |
Source | Cleveland Museum of Art |
Online copyright statement | http://www.clevelandart.org |
City shown | Cleveland |
Date and time of data generation | 11:14, 7 April 2016 |
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Cleveland Museum of Art11150 East Blvd Cleveland, OH, 44106 USA |
Original transmission location code | 6193 |
Date and time of digitizing | 11:14, 7 April 2016 |
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Date metadata was last modified | 07:28, 28 April 2016 |
File change date and time | 07:28, 28 April 2016 |
Unique ID of original document | xmp.did:55193c8b-7133-4e03-beb8-47ef4afc4e83 |
Sublocation of city shown | Cleveland Museum of Art |
Country shown | USA |
Province or state shown | OH |
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