Canaletto's
capricci, the result of fragmenting and re-composing disparate elements, exist at the intersection of antiquarianism, architecture, and tourism. This research seminar asks how imaginary landscape paintings illustrate developing ideas of landscape heritage at a time of urban development. Through the lens of environmental and media studies, eighteenth-century Venice emerges here as a vivid case study in the development of a modern conception of the urban environment as a repository of traces of lost natural and cultural history.
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