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The City Rehearsed: Object, Architecture, and Print in the Worlds of Hans Vredeman de Vries

By Christopher Heuer
Hardcover
$233.99
By Christopher Heuer
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The City Rehearsed offers an entirely new perspective on printed architecture in early modern Europe through the lens of Hans Vredeman de Vries. It probes the geographical encounters of dozens of engravings with contemporary texts on architecture, theatre, urbanism, art collecting, even ethnography.

The Netherlandish polymath Hans Vredeman de Vries (1526-1609) devoted his entire career to the production of imaginary architecture. Painter, architect, rhetorician, perspective theorist, festiv...

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