Giants on the streets of European cities in the 18th century.A painting by the artist Nicolas Jean Baptiste Ragnet. A competition of boatmen on the river between the bridge of change and the bridge of Notre Dame (view of the bridge of change) 1756.
Looking at the figures of the standing boatmen, we see that they are at least twice the size of those sitting in the boats! A critical reader will say that it is an allegory, as seen by the author himself distant from reality, but the XVII century, and especially the XVIII century is the kingdom of vedutists!
Veduta (Italian veduta, "kind") - a genre of European painting, especially popular in Venice in the XVIII century. It is a picture, drawing or etching with a detailed depiction of a daily cityscape.
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