Amsterdam, from ‘Civitates orbis terrarum’ (1576) by Georg Braun (all images courtesy Taschen) “Kindly and most esteemed reader, we hereby place on the market the next book of the most noble cities of ...
In 1587, Italian cartographer Urbano Monte completed a Renaissance map of the world with a unique perspective. Rather than drawing the Earth on a rectangular sheet, as many maps are displayed today, ...
The idea that man simply 're-found' himself during the European Renaissance ignores something quite fundamental. Jerry Brotton argues that important developments in trade and science, as well as ...
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