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Radovan Geist
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 Posted: Wed 02 Jul, 2014 2:23 am Post subject: 30 Years War engravings - interactive online collection |
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Our friends from Czech Rep. have put together this online collection of events and personalities of the Thirty Years War: http://www.30letavalka.eu/?lang=en
With interactive time-map and a timeline, it is a wonderful source of information for all Thirty Years War enthusiasts. Itīs far from complete and itīs focused mostly on Central Europe, but it still offers tens of contemporary portraits, city maps and vedutas, battle plans, leaflets, etc., all with reference to original location, notes, etc. Pictures are zoom-able, so you can discover all those wonderful details. And the website has EN / DE version.
Iīd give big kudos for putting this project together.
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Shahril Dzulkifli
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| Posted: Sun 06 Jul, 2014 6:32 am Post subject: 30 Years War engravings - interactive online collection |
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Just visited that site. The engravings look wonderful.
And, by the way Radovan, what's a veduta?
You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength
- Marcus Aurelius
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Radovan Geist
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Hi Shahril, veduta is basically a picture of a cityscape (painting, print), showing the whole town, or its part. AFAIK it was popular in 16th-18th century and itīs usually very realistic, so it gives nice picture of topography of contemporary towns and their environment.
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Bruno Giordan
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Am I wrong or it is just possible to see the prints as middle sized thumbnails? This website looks attractive but looking at just thumbs would be pretty frustrating.
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Radovan Geist
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| Posted: Mon 07 Jul, 2014 2:48 am Post subject: |
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Bruno, you can see zoomed-in details by moving the mouse over the picture.
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Bruno Giordan
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| Radovan Geist wrote: | | Bruno, you can see zoomed-in details by moving the mouse over the picture. |
Will try with a "standard" browser and oS, so far I tried with Chrome/ Linux and Safari/IOS.
Thank you
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Radovan Geist
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| Posted: Mon 07 Jul, 2014 5:26 am Post subject: |
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Bruno, Iīm using Firefox. I did not know it does not work on some browsers - thanks for pointing this out!
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Raman A
Location: United States Joined: 25 Aug 2011
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| Posted: Mon 07 Jul, 2014 8:55 am Post subject: |
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| Bruno Giordan wrote: | | Radovan Geist wrote: | | Bruno, you can see zoomed-in details by moving the mouse over the picture. |
Will try with a "standard" browser and oS, so far I tried with Chrome/ Linux and Safari/IOS.
Thank you |
The detail feature does not work for me in Chrome, I have to use Firefox.
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This is a standard topic