Florenz

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Article ID EUI914

Title

Florenz

Description

Decorative compolete view of Florenz.

Year

ca. 1820

Artist

Scholz (1793-)

Josef Scholz invented his company in 1793 in Wiesbaden. The trading company of paper and stanionary turned out to a very famous publishing company. 1829 the company moved to Mainz and became very famous in publishing Lithographies for different study purpose.

Historical Description

Florence is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany, at the river Arno. Florence was a centre of medieval European trade and finance and one of the wealthiest cities of that era. It is considered the birthplace of the Renaissance, and has been called the Athens of the Middle Ages. A turbulent political history includes periods of rule by the powerful Medici family and numerous religious and republican revolutions. From 1865 to 1871 the city was the capital of the recently established.

Place of Publication Mainz
Dimensions (cm)25 x 34
ConditionMissing part at upper sky replaced
Coloringcolored
TechniqueLithography

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