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The main purpose of this collection is to encourage you to hover over the detail in the landscape and amalgamate your clues into an entire kingdom. The
Master of the Bird's Eye View is Wenceslaus Hollar (1607 - 1677)
and his masterpiece the West End Central of London. Nothing
had been seen like it since the Bird's Eye View of Bruges in
ten engraved plates by Marcel Gheraerts in 1562. THESE images are immense on screen. You may not want to tie up your weaker machine as the image loads. The images seek to give you the feeling of travelling over seventeenth century landscapes and buildings as if you were a bird. The images are best viewed on a powerful machine and with the biggest screens.
top row 01 J.Herrewyn's CARTUSIA BRUXELLENSIS 35 x 46cms (detail) 02 TUNGERLOA ; Wencleslas Hollar's engraving of the monastic settlement 1650 42 x 52 cms 03 TUNGERLOA ; Wencleslas Hollar's engraving of the monastic settlement 1650 42 x 52 cms 04 J.Herrewyn's CARTUSIA BRUXELLENSIS 35 x 46cms (detail) 05 J.Herrewyn's CARTUSIA BRUXELLENSIS 35 x 46cms (detail) |
bottom row 01 Wencleslas Hollar's engraving of the monastic settlement, S. Maria Monastery 1649 02 Wencleslas Hollar's engraving of the monastic settlement, S. Maria Monastery 1649 03 BONUS PLATE - ENGRAVING of the city of LOUANGO with "idol worship" and the execution of criminals. A Hollar commercial commission from the imagination 26 x 33cms 04 (A) W.Hollar, second plate of the monastic settlements set (entire plate) 05 (B) J.Herrewyn's CARTUSIA BRUXELLENSIS 35 x 46cms (complete plate) |
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TO THE AERIAL VIEW
