Book Review: Dream of Venice in Black and White
Read my review of Bella Figura Publications’ excellent new book Dream of Venice in Black and White. It’s a book you will want to spend hours poring over.
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A Bird’s-eye view of Venice
Walking around Venice, you see lots of prints of old maps of ‘Venice from the air’. From the sixteenth century onwards, this became a stock way to depict Venice pictorially. The many different versions provide useful information about the history and development of the city through the ages and are fascinating to look at in …