Timeless Venice: Discovering Today's City in a Map 500 Years Old [With CDROM]

By Mark Robinson

Dating from Europe's earliest days of printing, Jacopo de'Barbari's giant map of Venice is both an artistic and technological tour de force. Printed from six wood blocks, its detail is such that we... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1873429983
• ISBN13: 9781873429983
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Pallas Athene
• Length: 57 Pages
• Weight: 0.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 4.9" x 6.5"

Customer Reviews

Timeless Venice: Discovering Today's City in a Map 500 Years

Fascinating little book and the best version of the Barberi map that I have come across, and I have many.