title: Heinrich von Huyssen, "Der vierte Brieff": Eine Beschreibung der Stadt Florenz (1698), aus: [Heinrich von Huyssen]: Curieuse und vollständige Reiß=Beschreibung von gantz Italien (Freiburg 1701) (FONTES 44)
creator: Huyssen, Heinrich von
subject: 700
subject: Arts
subject: Italy
subject: Huyssen, Heinrich /von
subject: Italien
subject: Florenz
description: Heinrich von Huyssen’s "Curieuse und vollständige Reiß-Beschreibung von gantz Italien" [Curious and Complete Travel-Description of All of Italy] of 1701 was described by Ludwig Schudt as a turning point in the German literature on Italy ("Italienreisen im 17. und 18. Jahrhundert", 1959). Huyssen eschewed the more or less uncritical listing of objects of interests and events. He attempted instead to create a image of the country, its people, and its intellectual life. Indeed, Huyssen provides a vivid picture of the political, economic, social, and scholarly context in which works of art were created, collected, studied, and evaluated. He became closely acquainted with many of the greatest scholars in Italy, and his work is informed by his discussions with them in libraries and academies. Huyssen’s twenty-two letters, extending over more than five hundred pages, provide an unusually solid basis for the study of the monuments and works of art, and for a renewed consideration of them. His "Fourth Letter", on the city of Florence, treats the works of art, churches, and palaces of the city. At the same time it reveals much concerning the manifold social institutions in Florence as well as the customs of its citizens, life at court, in the palace, in the library and on the public piazza. Despite the attention drawn by Schudt to Huyssen’s work and to its importance for the history of art, Huyssen’s "Reiß-Beschreibung" has generally been neglected. A digistised edition of Huyssen’s work in the University Library of the University of Heidelberg is available (URL: http://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/huyssen 1701).
contributor: Davis, Margaret Daly
date: 2009
type: Book
type: info:eu-repo/semantics/book
type: NonPeerReviewed
identifier: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/artdok/842/
format: application/pdf
identifier: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/artdokhttps://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/artdok/842/1/Daly_Davis_Fontes44.pdf
identifier: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-artdok-8427
rights: info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
language: ger