"Positing a dynamic relationship between print culture and social experience, Bronwen Wilson's The World in Venice focuses on the printed image during a century of profound transformation. City views, costume illustrations, events, and portraits of locals and foreigners are brought together to show how printmakers responded to an expanding image of the world in Renaissance Venice, and how, in turn, prints influenced the ways in which individuals thought about themselves." "Wilson explores the overlapping and evolving relations between space, vision, print, and identity, and engages with current scholarly debates concerning ethnicities, gender and geography, copies and originals, travel, nationhood, fashion, urban life, visuality, and the body."--BOOK JACKET.
1. From myth to metropole : sixteenth-century printed maps of Venice -- 2. Costume and the boundaries of bodies -- 3. Allegory, order, and the singular event -- 4. Reproducing the individual : likeness and history in printed portrait books.