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View of Delft

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Description: Dutch Painting, 1600–1800
~~It is curious that most European languages use the French word genre, which means ‘kind’, ‘sort’, or ‘variety’, to categorize the type of painting that depicts scenes of everyday life. Precisely when or how this special usage became...
PublisherYale University Press
Related print edition pages: pp.123-176
Description: Urban Images of the Hispanic World: 1493–1793
The city view, in various manifestations, has long been a source of both knowledge and pleasure. The Civitates orbis terrarum, a sixteenth-century compendium of cities worldwide, enabled the English writer Robert Burton (1577–1640) to “behold, as it were, all the remote provinces, towns, and...
PublisherYale University Press
Related print edition pages: pp.1-18
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00278.001

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