Abstract
For European artists who traveled to the Levant during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, often in the company of ambassadors or agents, urban topography was an important theme. City views provided their patrons with visual knowledge about space, such as fortifications, monuments, and terrain. This talk shifts the focus to ways in which temporal experiences of moving through foreign terrain became deposited in drawing. One example is Guillaume-Joseph Grélot, who experiments in his prospects for Ambrosio Bembo's travel journal (1674-75) with mobility and history.
