Pre-Modern cities

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Pre-Modern cities 2016-09-09 15:24:22 Post No.
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File: Ambrogio Lorenzetti, Peaceful City (1339 AD).jpg (4MB, 4493x2166px) Image search: [Google]

Pre-Modern cities Anonymous 2016-09-09 15:24:22 Post No. [Report]

Post contemporary depictions or descriptions of pre-modern cities and city life, either outside of the West or in the pre-1500 West, preferably based on eyewitness accounts.

I'll dump what I've got.

Anonymous 2016-09-09 15:25:48 Post No.1673004
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File: Bigallo Madonna (1342).jpg (311KB, 915x673px) Image search: [Google]

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Florence depicted in the Bigallo Madonna, painted about 1342 AD.

Anonymous 2016-09-09 15:26:55 Post No.1673005
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File: Francesco Rosselli, Florence (Pianta della Catena, c. 1471-1482 AD).jpg (355KB, 1200x554px) Image search: [Google]

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>>1673004
The same city a century and a half later.

Anonymous 2016-09-09 15:28:29 Post No.1673017
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File: Hours of Étienne Chevalier (1450s AD), La Descente du Saint-Esprit.jpg (324KB, 640x887px) Image search: [Google]

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A French depiction of a city, possibly based on Paris, from the 1450s.

Anonymous 2016-09-09 15:29:46 Post No.1673022
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File: Limbourg brothers, Très Riches Heures du duc de Berry (1411-16 AD), folio 195.jpg (600KB, 1684x2400px) Image search: [Google]

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Mont Saint-Michel in the 1410s. Not really a city though.

Anonymous 2016-09-09 15:31:05 Post No.1673027
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File: Robert Campin, Mérode Altarpiece (1425-1428 AD).jpg (230KB, 545x933px) Image search: [Google]

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Streets in the background of the Merode Altarpiece, 1420s AD.

Anonymous 2016-09-09 15:32:25 Post No.1673033
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File: Rogier van der Weyden, St. Ivo (c. 1450 AD).jpg (552KB, 1242x1641px) Image search: [Google]

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City in the background of Rogier van der Weyden's "St. Ivo", about 1450 AD.

Anonymous 2016-09-09 15:33:15 Post No.1673039
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File: Stabiae, harbor scene (c. 50-79 AD).jpg (2MB, 2096x1952px) Image search: [Google]

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A 1st century Roman harbour scene from Stabiae.

Anonymous 2016-09-09 15:34:43 Post No.1673045
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File: Pompeii, Roughhouse at the Amphitheatre, 1st century AD.jpg (1MB, 1968x1680px) Image search: [Google]

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A riot at the amphitheater of Pompeii.

Anonymous 2016-09-09 15:36:11 Post No.1673053
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File: Pompeii, House of M. Lucretius Fronto (1st century AD), villa scene 2.jpg (390KB, 1024x580px) Image search: [Google]

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A Pompeian villa.

Anonymous 2016-09-09 15:36:41 Post No.1673056
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File: Pompeii, Temple of Isis, Maritime Villa with Fishermen (before 79 AD).jpg (423KB, 2600x735px) Image search: [Google]

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>>1673053
Another.

Anonymous 2016-09-09 15:38:34 Post No.1673066
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File: Marrakech and El Badi Palace, by Adriaen Matham, 1640.jpg (4MB, 5512x1178px) Image search: [Google]

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Marrakech in 1640.

Anonymous 2016-09-09 15:39:26 Post No.1673069
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Tblisi in 1671

Anonymous 2016-09-09 15:40:02 Post No.1673072
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File: Chardin Kashan.jpg (239KB, 1415x530px) Image search: [Google]

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Kashan, late 17th century

Anonymous 2016-09-09 15:40:49 Post No.1673076
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Isfahan in 1656

Anonymous 2016-09-09 16:40:47 Post No.1673283
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>>1673004
Man that is tiny.

Anonymous 2016-09-09 20:31:55 Post No.1674080
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Anonymous 2016-09-09 20:32:18 Post No.1674081
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Anonymous 2016-09-09 20:58:05 Post No.1674162
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>>1673283
Yeah, because art in that era was natorious for respecting proportions

Anonymous 2016-09-09 20:59:05 Post No.1674164
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Anonymous 2016-09-09 21:19:40 Post No.1674201
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File: Delhi from the north-west. Attributed to Mazhar 'Ali Khan, c. 1845.png (1MB, 1024x517px) Image search: [Google]

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Some paintings of Delhi in the 1840s, before its destruction in 1857.

Anonymous 2016-09-09 21:21:01 Post No.1674206
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File: Mazhar Ali Khan, Delhi (1846 AD).jpg (2MB, 4695x1059px) Image search: [Google]

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>>1674201
Inside the Red Fort.

Anonymous 2016-09-09 21:22:24 Post No.1674209
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>>1674206
The city, with the Friday Mosque.

Anonymous 2016-09-09 21:25:10 Post No.1674215
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File: Engelbert Kaempfer, Isfahan (1684), Amoenitatum Exoticarum pg 210.jpg (221KB, 800x1010px) Image search: [Google]

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>>1673076
Central Isfahan in 1684.

Anonymous 2016-09-10 00:20:50 Post No.1674841
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>>1673027
trapgevel is bestegevel

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