European 'Journeys' Into Image ; Age of Exploration Opens Curious World
The Washington Times › May 13, 2007
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Fifteenth-century Europeans fell in love with travel before they were able to travel themselves, as the National Gallery of Art's new exhibit, "Fabulous Journeys and Faraway Places: Travels on Paper, 1450-1700," amply demonstrates.
They saw other lands through the eyes of the few artists who ventured past their immediate surroundings. Travel was brutal and dangerous. Photography, of course, was unknown.See the full content of this document
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European 'Journeys' Into Image ; Age of Exploration Opens Curious World
Prints on paper were the only avenues, therefore, to what they imagined lay beyond, and the works were valued as handsome and educational travelogues.
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