Cityscape Drawings

Cityscape drawing is an imaginative depiction of the actual characteristics of a city area. It is either painted, drawn, printed, photographed, or presented in some other way. Town sceneries, which are somewhat urban in form, can be distinguished as cityscapes. Houses, public parks, high-rise buildings, and busy roads are only a few of the features of cities that are reflected in cityscapes. A painting portraying a bird's eye vision of an old civilization in Rome originated around the 1st century A.D. which is a perfect example of a cityscape drawing.  Cityscapes were used as backgrounds for portraiture and biblical subjects throughout the 5th century to the period of the Renaissance. From the 1500s through the 1700s, several copperplate images and carvings depicting cities from above were produced. The prints were intended to offer an image just like maps.

Similarly, scroll paintings, for example, Qingming Shanghe Tu of Historic China, provide a panoramic perspective of the towns. In the Netherlands, by the mid-1600s, the cityscape had established itself as a distinct genre as well. Jan Vermeer, a Dutch painter created a very realistic depiction of Delft’s city. Cities such as Holland, Haarlem, and The Hague were attractive drawing themes. Artists mainly draw famous places such as New York, Amsterdam, Italy, and others for antique and vintage cityscape drawings at auction. In Italy, the 1700s was a golden age for cityscape drawings. In the 1800s, the artists concentrated on the city's aura and movements of ordinary life.

The creation of antique and vintage cityscape drawings for sale was pretty high back in the past. Many antique and vintage cityscape drawings at online auction have made people praise the artist. Such works of artists and several other artworks are available for bidding at Bidsquare.