The Image of the City Quantified: The Serial Analysis of Pictorial Representations of Urbanity in Early Netherlandish Art (1420-1520)

Rock, Jelle De

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“…To depict the city, fifteenth-century painters most frequently used the profile view over other representational viewpoints such as the oblique or bird's-eye view. 40 The representational tension between looking at a particular site or feature within a more complex geographic system stems from Ptolemy's definitions of geography and chorography, which was translated and printed in Florence between 1469 and 1472. 41 The Roman author likened geography to the face, and chorography to a particular facial feature, like an ear or a nose.…”

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Hanse Cultural Geography and Communal Identity in Late-Medieval City Views of Lübeck

Tillery

2020

Journal of Urban History

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This article examines painted and printed city views of Lübeck, Germany, from ca. 1465 to 1540 as a lens to examine the corporate body of Hanse merchants and towns in the Baltic late-medieval urban environment. Previous studies on painted views of Lübeck in the background of Bernt Notke’s Lübeck Dance of Death and Hermen Rode’s Altarpiece of Sts. Nicholas and Viktor interpret the cityscape as a marker for the dominance of Lübeck in the Baltic Sea. In identifying the manipulated monuments and spatial distortions in representations of Lübeck, this article draws upon the social context of patronage and recent studies on the Hanse network to argue that city views of Lübeck attest to the shared urban group and cultural practices between Hanse merchants and towns. The Lübeck city view, displayed locally and extraterritorially, and further proliferated in early printed geography books, catered to the Hanse collective of intertwined consumers and markets.

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Section: The Role Of the Profile View In Shaping Civic Identitymentioning

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Hanse Cultural Geography and Communal Identity in Late-Medieval City Views of Lübeck

Tillery

2020

Journal of Urban History

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The Image of the City Quantified: The Serial Analysis of Pictorial Representations of Urbanity in Early Netherlandish Art (1420-1520)

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Hanse Cultural Geography and Communal Identity in Late-Medieval City Views of Lübeck

Hanse Cultural Geography and Communal Identity in Late-Medieval City Views of Lübeck

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