"Fiorenza": geography and representation in a fifteenth century city view

• Autores: David Friedman
• Localización: Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte, ISSN 0044-2992, Vol. 64, Nº. 1, 2001, págs. 56-77
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • A discussion of the Renaissance city view View of Florence with a Chain. The image is known from a woodcut version in Berlin, which reproduces an engraving produced by the Florentine map maker and artist Francesco Rosselli in the 1480s. It is a transitional image: It includes distortions that reflect the representational manipulation of space of medieval city views, but it also moves the city view into the modern era of visual representation with strategies that redirect interpretation away from topography to other parts of the image. The woodcut, produced in around 1510, copies Rosselli's topographic representation, but adds new elements (such as various figures) that comment on the condition of the city at the time; it can plausibly be read as protesting the city's captivity at the hands of the republican regime that usurped power from the Medici family, and as lamenting the passage of the “spring” the city had enjoyed under the protection of Lorenzo de' Medici.