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Description: View of Rhodes (i. e. Rhodos, Rhodus), capital of the Greek island of the same name, around 1490. The realistic details are noteworthy; e.g. the windmills around the town, esp. at the seaside.
Title: Rhodos1493
Credit: Woodcut from Hartmann Schedel’s Weltchronik (Nuremberg Chronicle, Nuremberg 1493), fol. xxvi verso. This is one of the famous realistic town views from Schedel’s work.
Author: Woodcuts by Michel Wolgemut, Wilhelm Pleydenwurff (text: Hartmann Schedel)
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