A Special Collections Exhibition
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City Plans |
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Marco
Barateri, Plan of Milan, 1638
During the seventeenth century, cartographers and engravers continued to
produce large and beautiful plans, which were sometimes used as wall-hangings.
This view of Milan by Barateri represented the city from the south, unlike
previous views; it was also said that he made special trigonometrical studies,
in order to obtain proportions and details as accurately as possible.
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detail, which shows the famous sixteenth-century citadel, suggests that Barateri
did indeed attain a remarkable degree of accurate representation. This plan is
also interesting because it shows the way in which a rich city might grow out of
its inner ring of fortifications, and so be compelled to fortify a very much
greater area, even if much of the interior at first remained unsettled.
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