Thirty by Wassily Kandinsky, 1937 tumc_visscher notable for using multiple map

notable for using multiple map projections and sources beyond Ptolemy

This map is a testament to Bartholomew's unparalleled expertise and artistic vision

painterly illustration

and boundless capacity for reinvention—qualities that make it an essential addition to any collection of historic city maps

Holbein’s hand lends the whole a courtly poise

Thirty by Wassily Kandinsky, 1937 tumc_visscher notable for using multiple mapThirty (1937) by Wassily Kandinsky is a late career masterwork from the Russian born pioneer of abstraction, created at a moment when he had fully left behind representational subjects in favor of a refined visual language of line, arc, point, and measured geometry. The numbered title reads like a movement in a suitean allusion to Kandinskys long standing belief that painting could be structured like music. Here, restrained forms float within a clear,