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A bird's-eye view is an elevated view of an object or location from a very steep viewing angle, creating a perspective as if the observer were a bird in flight looking downward. Bird's-eye views can be an aerial photograph , but also a drawing, and are often used in the making of blueprints, floor plans and maps.
The artist Kazimir Malevich (1878–1935), who wrote extensively on the aesthetics and philosophy of modern art, identified the aerial landscape (especially the "bird's-eye view", looking straight down, as opposed to an oblique angle) as a genuinely new and radicalizing paradigm in the art of the twentieth century. In his view, air travel, and ...
Birds Eye View of New York and Environs John Bachmann, Bird's Eye View of New Orleans, 1851 (Library of Congress) John Bachmann, Sr. (Jan 31,1817–May 22, 1899) was a Swiss-born lithographer and artist best known for his bird's-eye views, especially of New York City. He was a journeyman lithographic artist in Switzerland and Paris until 1847.
The more precise art of illustrating detailed bird's-eye-view urban landscapes flourished during the European Renaissance. As emerging trade centers such as Venice began to prosper, local rulers commissioned artists to develop pictorial overviews of their towns to help them organize trade fairs and direct the increasing flow of visiting merchants.
View of Venice, first state, 1500, Minneapolis Institute of Art. View of Venice, also known as the de' Barbari Map, is a monumental woodcut print showing a bird's-eye view of the city of Venice from the southwest. It bears the title and date "VENETIE MD" ("Venice 1500").
Hooper's store has retained its art deco barstools and lunch counter, but now has free Wi-Fi. "Sesame Street" has been gentrified. After 45 seasons, the brick walls that once fenced in the neighborhood have been razed, giving way to sweeping views of what looks suspiciously like the Brooklyn Bridge (it is in fact a composite of three New York ...
"A Bird's Eye View of Amsterdam", faithful copy of Cornelis Anthonisz' 1538 view of the city, but showing cloud shadows over the land, 1652. Jan Christiaensz Micker (1598 in Amsterdam – 1664 in Amsterdam), was a Dutch Golden Age landscape painter.
Bird's Eye, 2024 album by Ravyn Lenae; Bird's-eye view, a view of an object from above, as though the observer were a bird; From a Bird's Eye View, a 1971 United States sitcom about two airline stewardesses; Birdseye, colloquialism for fermata, a symbol used in musical notation