#ideal city

The Ideal City, Florentine Painting, circa 1480, Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, 2019.

Perhaps because of my education as an urbanist, this is my favorite single painting in the Walters. It is one of a set now dispersed amongst several museums illustrating the 15th century’s newly perfected art of perspective. I would love to see the set in a single location for a special exhibition.