Cityscape
In the visual arts, a cityscape (urban landscape) is an artistic representation, such as a painting, drawing, print or photograph, of the physical aspects of a city or urban area. It is the urban equivalent of a landscape. "Townscape" is roughly synonymous with "cityscape," though it implies the same difference in urban size and density (and even modernity) implicit in the difference between the words "city" and "town". In urban design the terms refer to the configuration of built forms and interstitial space. History of cityscapes in art. From the first century A.D. dates a fresco at the Baths  of Trajan in Rome depicting a bird's eye view of an ancient city. In the Middle Ages, cityscapes appeared as a background for portraits and biblical themes. From the 16th up to the 18th century numerous copperplate prints and etchings were made showing cities in bird's eye view. The function of these prints was to provide a map-like overview. In Ancient China, scroll paintings such as Qingming Shanghe Tu offer a panoramic view of the cities depicted. Halfway through the 17th century the cityscape became an independent genre in the Netherlands. In his famous "View of Delft