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Mark Robinson
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| #4764407 in Books | 2004-01-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 4.90 x.49 x6.50l,.0 | File type: PDF | 58 pages||2 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| Too much talk - no flexibility|By RJF|The idea is a nice one -- pictures of places in Venice as they are today, coupled with their representations on the famous Barbari map. But the catch -- and it is a big one -- is that you have to view each pair accompanied by the somewhat self-satisfied narrator. He schoolmarms a history of each place at very great length before we see the||"Just as Venice is unique among cities, so Jacopo de'Barbari's is unique among maps. At last we can enjoy it as it deserves to be enjoyed. Timeless Venice has already taught me so much."|From the Publisher|Dating from Euro
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 shows the thoroughfares and alleys of the one great city that has, in five centuries, changed less t...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Timeless Venice: Discovering Today's City in a Map 500 Years Old | Mark Robinson. I really enjoyed this book and have already told so many people about it!
