Motyw miasta w sztuce ilustratorskiej stosowanej w starych drukach na podstawie wybranych przykładów ze zbiorów Biblioteki Wyższego Seminarium Duchownego Metropolii Warmińskiej „Hosianum” w Olsztynie
Town Image in Illustration Art Used in Old Prints Based on Selected Examples from the Collections of the Library of the Higher Theological Seminary of the Warmia Metropolis „Hosianum” in Olsztyn

Summary/Abstract: There are many representations of cities in art. Often they provide a kind of historical documentation. A city can be shown as a place of life, it can also become a theme of important events or simply a symbol. Also book illustration art is rich in representations of towns. The examples of city representations selected and described in the article come from fifteenth-century incunabula and sixteenth‑d and seventeenth‑century prints from the collections of the Library of the Higher Theological Seminary of the Warmia Metropolis „Hosianum” in Olsztyn. Among the large number of interesting illustrations of city – real and symbolic – a special attention should be drawn to the work of Bernardo de Breidenbach: Peregrinatio in Terram Sanctam (Speyer 1490). The print is a description of the trip to the Holy Land, and at the same time one of the earliest printed books containing topographic descriptions, maps and city views. On one of the maps of the atlas of Abraham Ortelius: Theatrum orbis terrarum (Anwerpen 1592) there is a coloured panorama of Salzburg, where one can see the layout of streets and squares, churches, monasteries and other buildings, the Hohensalzburg castle towering abovethe city and the Salzach river.Krzysztof Hartknoch, a Pomerania and Prussian historian, is the author of the work Altes und Neues Preussen (Franckfurt und Leipzig 1684), in which there are views of cities made in etching technique. One can find there panoramas of Toruń, Gdańsk, Elbląg, Królewiec, Braniewo and many other Prussian towns.

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