The world in Venice print, the city and early modern identity

Summary: "Positing a dynamic relationship between print culture and social experience, Bronwen Wilson's The World in Venice focuses on the printed image during a century of profound transformation. City views, costume illustrations, events, and portraits of locals and foreigners are brought together to show how printmakers responded to an expanding image of the world in Renaissance Venice, and how, in turn, prints influenced the ways in which individuals thought about themselves." "Wilson explores the overlapping and evolving relations between space, vision, print, and identity, and engages with current scholarly debates concerning ethnicities, gender and geography, copies and originals, travel, nationhood, fashion, urban life, visuality, and the body."--Jacket.

Record details

ISBN: 9781442682573 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 1442682574 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 0802087256 (bound)
ISBN: 9780802087256
Physical Description: electronic resource
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1 online resource (xvii, 406 pages) : illustrations, portraits.
Publisher: Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, ©2005.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Multi-User. CatMonthString:august.17 Issued as part of the desLibris books collection.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes "Bibliography" (pages 351-393) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	From myth to metropole : sixteenth-century printed maps of Venice -- Costume and the boundaries of bodies -- Allegory, order, and the singular event -- Reproducing the individual : likeness and history in printed portrait books.
Source of Description Note:	Description based on print version record.