Imprimer, collecter et concentrer l’image des villes : lieux d’édition et représentations urbaines en Europe (fin du XVe siècle-milieu du XVIIe siècle)

From the sixteenth century onwards, with the development of printing, cities found new ways of representing themselves and widely disseminating the image they wished to project. Europe’s main publishing centres (Venice and Paris, for example) used the productivity of their printers to promote and di...

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Main Author: Eric Grosjean
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Language:fra
Published: École du Louvre 2023-11-01
Series:Les Cahiers de l'École du Louvre
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/cel/28316
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description From the sixteenth century onwards, with the development of printing, cities found new ways of representing themselves and widely disseminating the image they wished to project. Europe’s main publishing centres (Venice and Paris, for example) used the productivity of their printers to promote and disseminate their own image, and even to impose their vision on the rest of the community of European printers, authors and publishers. City views were intended to be more “realistic”, in other words, they sought to represent a vision like that which a physical observer outside the city would have had, in the form of a “portrait” from life. However, in Europe, a certain uniformity in the representations of cities in printed books set in during the sixteenth century. This standardisation was based on four factors: the renown and importance of the city in question, the presence of remarkable monuments that contributed to the immediate recognition of the city through its image and in themselves conveyed praise of the city, the existence of a production capacity for printed works that ensured the promotion and distribution of this representation, and the pre-existence of a large-scale plan or view of the city that served as a reference for European printed production.
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spelling doaj-art-12bc209803e24e55aed7f25a8957f1c82025-01-30T13:59:55ZfraÉcole du LouvreLes Cahiers de l'École du Louvre2262-208X2023-11-012110.4000/cel.28316Imprimer, collecter et concentrer l’image des villes : lieux d’édition et représentations urbaines en Europe (fin du XVe siècle-milieu du XVIIe siècle)Eric GrosjeanFrom the sixteenth century onwards, with the development of printing, cities found new ways of representing themselves and widely disseminating the image they wished to project. Europe’s main publishing centres (Venice and Paris, for example) used the productivity of their printers to promote and disseminate their own image, and even to impose their vision on the rest of the community of European printers, authors and publishers. City views were intended to be more “realistic”, in other words, they sought to represent a vision like that which a physical observer outside the city would have had, in the form of a “portrait” from life. However, in Europe, a certain uniformity in the representations of cities in printed books set in during the sixteenth century. This standardisation was based on four factors: the renown and importance of the city in question, the presence of remarkable monuments that contributed to the immediate recognition of the city through its image and in themselves conveyed praise of the city, the existence of a production capacity for printed works that ensured the promotion and distribution of this representation, and the pre-existence of a large-scale plan or view of the city that served as a reference for European printed production.https://journals.openedition.org/cel/28316ParisFlorencecityurban representationcity viewportrait
spellingShingle Eric Grosjean
Imprimer, collecter et concentrer l’image des villes : lieux d’édition et représentations urbaines en Europe (fin du XVe siècle-milieu du XVIIe siècle)
Les Cahiers de l'École du Louvre
Paris
Florence
city
urban representation
city view
portrait
title Imprimer, collecter et concentrer l’image des villes : lieux d’édition et représentations urbaines en Europe (fin du XVe siècle-milieu du XVIIe siècle)
title_full Imprimer, collecter et concentrer l’image des villes : lieux d’édition et représentations urbaines en Europe (fin du XVe siècle-milieu du XVIIe siècle)
title_fullStr Imprimer, collecter et concentrer l’image des villes : lieux d’édition et représentations urbaines en Europe (fin du XVe siècle-milieu du XVIIe siècle)
title_full_unstemmed Imprimer, collecter et concentrer l’image des villes : lieux d’édition et représentations urbaines en Europe (fin du XVe siècle-milieu du XVIIe siècle)
title_short Imprimer, collecter et concentrer l’image des villes : lieux d’édition et représentations urbaines en Europe (fin du XVe siècle-milieu du XVIIe siècle)
title_sort imprimer collecter et concentrer l image des villes lieux d edition et representations urbaines en europe fin du xve siecle milieu du xviie siecle
topic Paris
Florence
city
urban representation
city view
portrait
url https://journals.openedition.org/cel/28316
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