The image of the european city from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment

The charming European urban universe, from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment, is commemorated in this exhibition , through an extraordinary iconographic repertoire with more than eighty works, including paintings, prints and drawings from prestigious public and private collections , both Italian and foreign .
Since the Middle Ages the city was a privileged field for European painting and great means of propaganda and exaltation of the virtues of a State. The exhibition brings together those images then global , high-impact quality and spectacular , which for centuries have been the only or the most persuasive and immediate way to show the beauty and richness of the major cities of Europe.
Starting from Italy, first to introduce, thanks to the invention of perspective in the early fifteenth century, the imago urbis as charming poster of the ambitions of popes, princes or kings, ideally you will be able to visit , following a route chronological and geographical city the time has completely transformed and that largely no longer exist.

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