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16 - Architecture, Built Environment and Planning
University of Liverpool
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Output title
Venezia e la pianta di Costantinopoli: Gentile Bellini e Giovanni Andrea Vavassore 1479-1520
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E - Conference contribution
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First page of article
106
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Year of publication
2008
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Non-English
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English abstract
Through documentary evidence and historical analogies, the paper analyses the contribution of the Renaissance painter Gentile Bellini to the first printed map of Constantinople, engraved by Giovanni Andrea Vavassore in 1520. This cartographic work – five examples of which are in existence - represents the prototype for the urban image of Istanbul in the modern era, only superseded by scientific methods made available during the Enlightenment. The essay reconstructs the gestation of this exceptional bird’s eye view, which with its 58 captions, is a symbolic synthesis of the exchanges between the Renaissance intellighentia in several fields.
