HISC65H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Vittore Carpaccio, Scuola Di San Giorgio Degli Schiavoni, Fondaco Dei Tedeschi
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Case iv: the wars of the league of cambrai, 1508-16. Shift in how patricians saw themselves: rather than focusing on commercial activity (ownership of ships or investment in long distance trade) *centuries after early 16th century. Aristocrats were connected to owning property and building on it; exhib. their wealth through agric. investments (all over europe at this time) Holy league that saw france on onside and venice and papacy on the other. Venice found itself fighting some powerful people at the beginning of the 16th century; these wars were reshaping the view to mainland in long-term. *first map showing colour-coded polit. entities emerged/very first map of europe with colour- coded boundaries (1602); at this time emergent polit. belonging at this time but not clear-cut at this point. So powerful with landholdings that it became to be viewed as a threat even to the papacy.
