A View of Venice

Kristin Love Huffman is an independent scholar of the art, architectural, and urban history of Renaissance Venice and coeditor of Visualizing Venice: Mapping and Modeling Time and Change in a City.

The contributors to A View of Venice draw on a high-resolution digital scan of Jacopo de’ Barbari’s woodcut View of Venice printed in the year 1500 to outline the ways it depicts the social, cultural, economic, and political realities of everyday Venetian life.

List of Illustrations  xi Abbreviations  xvii Acknowledgments  xix Prologue. Story of the Edited Volume / Kristin Love Huffman and Andrea Bellieni  xxiii Plates  xxvii Introduction. The View as an Urban Portrait / Kristin Love Huffman  1 I. The View as a Printed Cartographic and Artistic Visualization 1. The View of Venice in a Genealogy of City Views and Government Mapping / Karen-edis Barzman  25 2. A City as a World: Jacopo de’ Barbari’s View in 1500 / Piero Falchetta  40 3. A Perspectival Investigation of Jacopo de’ Barbari’s View of Venice / Cosimo Monteleone  50 4. An Artist’s Address Book: Notes on Venice’s Artistic Geography / Giorgio Tagliaferro  62 5. Beyond Venice: At the Margins of the View / Anna Christine Swartwood House  75 6. Vessels of Political Communication / Monique O’Connell  86 7. Navigating the Business of Print in Venice with Jacopo de’ Barbari / Bronwen Wilson  96 8. On the Collection History of the View’s Matrices / Valeria Cafá  107 9. The Graphic Inventions of Jacopo de’ Barbari / Kristin Love Huffman  119 10. Revisiting “lontani et altra fantaxia”: An Eyckian Perspective on Giovanni Bellini and Jacopo de’ Barbari / Mary Pardo  136 11. Jacopo de’ Barbari, a Wandering Court Artist in the North: Changing Perspectives on His Role in Northern Renaissance Art / Rangsook Yoon  150 II. The View as a Reflection of Venice and Venetian Life 12. Toward the Perfect City: Urban Development in the Quattrocento / Richard Goy  163 13. The Wellhead as an Amenity of Venetian Urban Space / Patricia Fortini Brown  176 14. Hidden in Plain Sight (and Hearing): Venetian Bells and Their Towers / Jonathan Glixon  189 15. Santa Lucia and Corpus Domini at the Turn of the Sixteenth Century: The View and Urban Patterns / Saundra Weddle  199 16. Monastic and Convent Life as a City Phenomenon / Ludovica Galeazzo  212 17. Gendered Space(s) and the View / Holly Hurlburt  226 18. Wifely Mobility in Renaissance Venice / Stanley Chojnacki  238 19. Two Palaces, a Chapel, and an Art Collection on the Grand Canal: The World of Domenico di Piero in Jacopo de’ Barbari’s View of Venice / Giada Damen  250 20. Luxury Goods in Jacopo de’ Barbari’s Venice / Blake de Maria  260 21. “Both by Sea and Land”: Venetian Trade and Retail in the View / Julia A. DeLancey  273 22. Imagining Social and Political Relations in the View: From Piazza San Marco to Murano / Maartje van Gelder and Claire Judde de Larivière 23. Cosmopolitanism in Venice and State Strategies / Martina Massaro  295 Epilogue. Venice Lost, and Found / Tracy E. Cooper  307 Appendix 1. The View and Its Relevance Today: Venice Then and Now / Kristen Love Huffman  315 Appendix 2. Anton Kolb’s Copyright Permission and Export License Request for the View of Venice  336 Appendix 3. Will of Anton Kolb, October 12, 1541  338 Bibliography  341 Contributors  381 Index  391 Image Credits  409