In Renaissance, the representation of cities was called portrait (pourtraict) and aimed to glorify the governor of the represented city. To better depict the city's aspect, the pourtraict was always a bird's-eye view. However, in the 17th century, strict geometry was employed in order to facilitate urban interventions and the representation was then called plan. Indeed, the analysis of the reprentations of Paris from the 16th to the 18th centuries shows this shift. Thus, with the epoque of embellishment of cities (embellissment des villes), with which we dealt in the preceding article, the pourtraict disappeared and the plan was thereafter exclusively used.
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