Vintage Paris Map | Antique French City Cartography Print

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Vintage Paris Map | Antique French City Cartography PrintThese vintage city maps are drawn from the great cartographic traditions of the 18th and 19th centuries, when mapmakers combined scientific precision with ornamental craft. Each map captures a city frozen at a specific moment in its history streets, parks, fortifications, and neighbourhoods that may no longer exist. They are documents of place and time as much as works of art, and among the most evocative things a collector of history and beauty can

simplicity

rain-soaked streets

recognition

divine interventions

he developed a style of tender informality — childlike in the best sense — that stands apart from both the formal bijinga tradition and the more abstract tendencies of mid-century Sōsaku-hanga

Odilon Redon (1840–1916) was a French Symbolist painter and printmaker whose work occupies a unique position in the history of modern art — between the visible and the visionary

His chromolithographic plates — Islamic geometric

completely

and the exquisitely patterned cranes of Kōrin's Rinpa design vocabulary

His graphic facility and eye for pattern make his decorative drawings among the most distinctive works of late-18th-century Dutch draughtsmanship

which he designed as a living artwork

His influence on Expressionism

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